The Hottest Tech From The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is back for its fourth edition, and we were at the Grand Départ in Brittany to check out all the latest pro bike tech! From the reigning champion’s custom Canyon Aeroad with a stunning gold groupset, to Lidl-Trek’s wild Project One paint jobs and Demi Vollering’s superlight Specialized Tarmac SL8, this is your definitive look at the bikes being raced at the highest level.
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00:00 – Intro: Tour de France Femmes Tech!
00:26 – Kasia Niewiadoma’s Custom MyCanyon Aeroad
01:54 – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s “Dark and Stormy” Canyon
02:25 – Demi Vollering’s Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
03:38 – Shirin van Anrooij’s Trek Madone Project One
04:47 – Emma O’Bainic’s Movistar Canyon Aeroad
05:16 – Elisa Longo Borghini’s Colnago V5RS
06:21 – EF Education-Oatly Team Tech (POC Helmet & Cadillac!)
06:39 – Alison Jackson’s Cannondale SuperSix EVO
06:55 – Liv AlUla Jayco Team Tech

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The tour to France fam a Zift returns this year for its fourth edition and it’s the longest one yet at 9 days. We took a visit to the Grand Depart in Britany to take a look at all the hot new tech on display as reigning champion. It’s no surprise to see Cashian Nuvia competing on a very special looking bike. But it’s not just her. The entire Canyon Stram team are using custom My Canyon AROD bikes at the race this year. Every rider has a unique design. Nuvia looks really cool. It’s a speckled red and black design, but to be honest, all the team bikes really stand out. On Nuvia’s bike, we’ve got Zip 353 NSW wheels, which are hookless and with the Stram axis pressure monitoring system. The Schwab Pro one tubeless tires are in a size 30 mm. And she’s got time pedals with custom team colors. The Piesta resistance, the gold cassette and chain on her Stram red axis group set. Now that is bling. She’s also got a yellow star on the front of her seat post, celebrating her victory in 2024. Another customization on Nubia’s bike is her saddle, which tilts significantly downward. That can help with comfort as well as adopting an arrow position, but it’s also where the saddle is horizontal where climbing. Cranks are 165 mm and she’s running 3750 chain rings. There were no one buy at the team bike as far as we could see. Uh that’s combined with a 10 to 36 cassette in gold. We remind you this bike weighs in at 7.2 kg. Cesot Ludvig has called her my canyon design. Dark and stormy. A decent description I’d say. Although the bike looks very different with the paint scheme, the spec of the components on it is exactly the same as Nuvia’s including the 165 mil cranks. She’s got a really aggressive position though with the saddle slammed forwards combined with a long 130 mil stem. The only other difference is that she doesn’t have the golden chain and cassette that is clearly reserved for the tour to France champion. Now new may be the reigning champion at the race but is Demi Volering who started as the favorite for the win this year. When she moved from SD works to FTJ Sewage last winter, she brought the bike brand Specialized with her. At this year’s Tour to France, she’s racing on an S Works Tarmac SL8 with full Shimano Dura Ace Di2 group set. First thing of note is that the chain is not waxed, although I’m guessing that might have changed for the race. Wheels are the Roval Rapid CLX3s with Conti GP 5000 TT tires in a size 28. By modern standards, her cranks are quite long, 170 mil, but then she is one of the taller rides in the Pelaton at 1 m 72. It’s no surprise that Volering 2 has a custom paint job for the biggest race on the calendar. This one is a nod to her childhood where she helped her parents on their flower farm. Despite the paint, this was one of the lightest bikes weighed at the race, coming in at 40 g below the UCI’s minimum requirement of 6.8 kg. That said, we weighed it without the head unit or transponder, which will be more than enough to make it legal. The other standout paint job at the race was on the Tres of Leader Trek. Now, this bike is from Shiran Androy. It’s the Madon Project One model, and it looks stunning. Personally, it reminds me of my childhood pining after some top-end mountain bikes with the daylow colors and splattered paint. Interestingly, the women’s team has stayed on the round bottles rather than the arrow one that the men’s team have been using, but they’re still using the Aero bottle cages. But Android is a relatively small rider, and her bar measurements reflect that. Just 36 cm outside to outside of the top, 38 cm at the end of the drops, and 26 cm between the hoods. The chain was already waxed when we saw it. She’s got the new Wahoo Element Bolt V3 at the front there, and she’s running 165 mil cranks. wheels are the Bontrager 51 mm for the early stages of the race with Pirelli P0 RS tubeless tires in a size 28. Another nice little touch on the frame is that number mount there which is stuck onto the rear of the seat post and the bike comes in at 7.2 kilos. The only handlebar setup we found at the race that will be legal next year was on this Canyon Aero of Oick of Moistar. Uh they’re the Pace Tar CP000048 model and they measure 42 cm outside to outside. On this bike, the frame number holder is screwed into the canyon seat post. No need to stick it with glue when it has dedicated mounts. The frame set itself does have some nice flex light blue details that you can clearly see in the sun, too. Elisa Longo Bogghini has unfortunately left the race through illness already, but we managed to get a look at her bike before her withdrawal. Now, according to the team, the plan was to only ride the V5 RS rather than the Y1 RS that the men’s team used for most of the tour France. She also wasn’t using the new Envy 4.5 SCES Pros, but rather the original 4.5 SCS’s with the Conti Archetype tires. They measured up at a whopping 33 mm when we looked at them, which is why they’ve used those older wheels. The new ones are more suited to 28s. The only rider on the UAE ADQ team with different tires was Mab Squiban, who had the classic 28 mil GP 5000 STRS. Longo Bulgini was running 5436 chain rings. So quite a big jump between the two combined with an 1134 Dura Ace cassette. She also had ceramic bearings in the bottom bracket and the cranks are 170 ms. The bike we looked at also had a wax chain and tipped the scales at just under the UCI weight limit at 6.98 kilos. The first thing we wanted to look at when we got to EFOley was their team car. Uh the only team in the Pelaton to be using Cadillacs. They’ve got seats that can be heated or cooled. We also spotted the new Pox Citalle helmet which comes in at just 200 g in a size medium. Now, we got a bit of time with Allison Jackson’s Cannondell Super 6 Evo Lab 71 complete with wax chain. Tires are Victoria Corsera Pros and on the brand new Vision Metron RS45 wheels. This bike weighed in at 7.59 kg, although that was with the empty bottles that were on it. And finally, we went to visit the Liveroola JCO team to take a look at their bikes, which are women’s specific. They’re running the KEX wheels, which are hookless. Interestingly, they’ve got tubeless on the race wheels, but then inner tubes on the spare wheels. Latitia Patinosta was running the 50 mil deep wheels when we looked at her bike with giant Aero 30 mil tires. Meanwhile, we weighed Aaliyah Wley’s bike and it came in at just 6.6 kg. The mechanics told us they’ll put some extra weight under the bottom bracket for the race itself. Right, that’s all for now. 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