Tour de France Femmes 2025: What Bike GPS & Tech Are They Using?

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Here’s a look at all the bike tech of the Women’s Tour de France 2025, where I’ll walk through everything from GPS to power meters to trainers, and plenty of other fun odds and ends along the way!

Hey folks, we’re here at the women’s tour to France 2025, the tour to France FM Swift to check out all the bike tech and kind of just walk through cool stuff. Uh there is plenty of interesting things here to see. New bike computers, we got power meters as well as plenty more goodness. Also note this video is all works. The teams have just finished coming in. Uh it started about 2 hours ago prior to start. They come on through here. They’re basically in a giant parking lot today. It’s kind of unusual to have this big of an empty space for the start of a stage, but giant parking lot, all 22 uh team vans pulled in here. And each team has a giant team bus like you see right there, as well as a fleet of cars with them, uh, including mechanics cars, etc. So, most of the teams here have put trainers out front. This is not a TT stage. This is the regular stage, 165 or so km, but some riders are liking to warm up. Right now back there, we’ve got the Mene T110s. Uh, this team is sponsored by Mine. You’re going to see elite trainers out here, Wahoo trainers and tax trainers, Garmin tax trainers. And for these sorts of stages, you’re not going to see a ton of warm-up. And many of the riders might not even warm up at all. So, if we look here at team Seratis, you’re going to go ahead and see they’ve got the new Wahoo bolts on their handlebars there. The way this works is most of the riders will hold on to their bike computers uh with them almost the entire time. Except this time, two of them have left them out. From a power meter standpoint, they’ve got four eyes power meters on these. A couple of their spar bikes do have Shimano on there, but they are running four eyes is their main thing. Here they’re going off to sign in. Every single tour rider has to sign in every day on a big board about an hour before the start of the race. Uh and the whole team does it together. So you can see there they running the Wahoo Bolt V3. Power meters are kind of all over the place to be honest. I saw a couple rallies there. Some Shimano there. Sort of a mixed bag. Here you can see Team Human Power Health is warming up on those Wahoo Kickers back there. W Kicker V6s. Uh note those are they’re basically spare bikes back there versus their main bikes are up here. Uh here is the bikes they’ve got. they’re actually going to ride during the stage. You can see one up there with it was like a a Wahoo Bolt V3 and a custom uh sticker kit. A lot of the teams do have custom sticker kits for their bike computers uh from either Garmin or Wahoo. How you getting there? And I would say one of the biggest differentiations between the men’s and the women’s tour, having been to both many, many times, many, many years, is that the women will actually sign autographs. Uh that sounds like a silly thing to say, but at the end of the day, almost none of the men will sign autographs for really anyone. uh in my experience very very rarely versus the women are always happy to sign autographs for both or girls, boys, doesn’t really matter really anyone seems like uh across the board. So just a funny little tidbit from the next stage. Marian Boss has historically always ridden an edge 130 plus always a smaller variant thing that’s been discontinued I think for years now. Uh versus the rest of their team on Visma is running the Garmin Edge 840 Solaris. Again, you basically choose a which fight computer that you want and that’s the one that she wants. Meanwhile, here at team education first, one of the riders out front getting their warm up in. She’s got a Wahoo Bolt V3. However, sponsorships is the name of the game here. You can see this is the Garmin tax fences there. And notably on the bike, you’ve got a Garmin Edge 1050 right there. Uh, and all the riders I saw earlier were riding Edge 1050s uh from Team Boar. Okay, you see here, Team Picnic Coast Geno warming up on the Elite Avanti. Uh, Elite did also release their new Revo this past summer, but given the Avanti is already out and the Revo is still in production right now, makes sense to be on that. Also down here, Shimano power meters on this team and the new Wahoo Bolt V3 up on the handlebars there. You can see portable air compressor is your friend for getting bike tires quickly inflated. You’ve got the Wahoo uh Bolt V3 on their handlebars. Uh, also the custom sticker job there because they’re holding the white jersey. So, if you look up here, you can see the white jersey holder there. uh that is in front of each one of the teams that has a custom jersey. So you’ll see here in this one uh yellow jersey over there and back to the portable air compressor there. So it’s notable that tire pressure is the guy that’s next to him right there uh actually has a phone with every single tire pressure for each rider. So they’re not doing it to the same across the board. Of course, each rider weighs differently unless you want to have the tire pressure unique to every single rider. Of course, here at Team Arc, they’ve all got the Wahoo Bolt uh V2s on there. of the previous generation Wahoo bolts across the board. They’re all on the Elite Swo-TS. And you can see back there the mechanic working to get kind of the indexing set up on that particular trainer. Shifting a little bit funky right now. Uh but shouldn’t be any big deal there. Meanwhile, here at Uno X are getting warmed up as well. In this case on Garmin Tax Neo2TS, uh you’ve got an Edge 1040 there as well as looks like a Garmin Edge 840 as well. Generally speaking, for most of the teams, the riders are allowed to choose the bike computers they want from the bike sponsor they have. In the case of Uno X, that is Garmin Tax. Uh, and so they’ve gone ahead and they’ve selected the bike computers that they want. Also, we got the laughing cow cow going through here. There he is right there. Nice. Nice. Now, certain teams are simply more popular at the tour. It’s just a fact of life. In this case, FJ being the hometown team, if you will. Here on the tour to France, it is absolutely slammed outside of them. Another team that’s pretty busy as well is team Bisba Lisa bike. Got some of the riders warming up as we speak. You can see her applying those stickers to our handlebars right there. That is super common across all of the World Tour teams. And the stickers, generally speaking, have either nutrition information, hydration, etc. on it, or they have notable stage, climbs, things like that. uh points they need to be aware of, strategy shifts, etc. Virtually every single team does this on the handlebars and they put on new ones every single day. Either the rider themselves or their team staff do it for them. It is kind of amazing that with all these bike computers out there today, none of the riders want that information on their bike computers. They want their bike computers for the data and they want the stickers there just so it’s always present all the time and they know exactly what’s coming up. Now, as I mentioned earlier on, this the whole team is running the Garmin Edge840s. And then down here on the power meter side, they’ve got the rotor inspire power meter. So, we’re about 3540 minutes from the team start. You can see some of the team support vans are starting to head out if you wanted to hand off nutrition later on in the race. So, the warming up on the Feedback sports trainers. Feedback is a sponsor of the channel, which is a heads up on that. Uh, but bike computer wise, they’ve got kind of a blend of things. So, some Garmin Edge A40s there and Edge 1040. And I was heading out. I saw one of the riders had a Bold V2 with an amazing case. So, I asked a little bit about it. That’s the best by computer. Uh, case I’ve seen today. Oh, yes. I assume you chose it yourself. Yeah. I just heard you speak started talking. I’m like, you have to be American or Canadian. Yeah, American. Yeah. My wife’s Canadian, though, so it works out. Yeah. Where did you find it? Uh, on AliExpress. AliExpress. Awesome. Awesome. Well, good luck today. In fact, I would argue this is the most interesting team from a sports tech standpoint. They’ve got Kittyears, Wahoo Bolts, they’ve got Favo Aoma Power Meter pedals. Uh, they’ve got the Aioma Duo, so not the newer RS ones. Does that make sense? Cuz most teams don’t like switching to new gear mid-season. And those pedals on the roadside just came out about a month and a half ago, early June. So, makes total sense there. They’ve got a blend of different bike computers. Uh, it’s like a it’s like a party in there of sports tech. I like it. I feel like this is an accurate representation of the DCRK. Just a whole bunch of trainers simply just chucked in there. A lot of the teams actually do have uh really welldesigned systems for holding their trainers underneath the bus. And you can see as they get ready to go at AG insurance, packing up those tax neo3ms, they are definitely not light trainers. That includes folding them up and then putting them into their little cubby holes that they’ve designed. Note, if you look carefully on the trainers, they’ve used like white out or some sort of white pen marker to mark the number of the trainer so that you can easily pair to it. You see exactly what that last two digits is or first two digits, whatever you need to know to find that trainer amongst the entire set of team trainers. Okay, you can see team Vizma head down there to sign in, including that custom KM Garmin Edge 840 there. Likewise here at Liv, we’ve got custom uh Edge 840s as well. They’re just finishing up those warms right now on those Elite Avantes. Okay, so most of the SD Works riders here are on Garmin Edge 840s, though. You can see one Edge 1050 there. Again, riders choice as to what they want to uh use out on the road. And some prefer the bigger screen, some prefer the smaller screen. Here we got some Legal Truck riders going down. Looks like the new Wahoo Bolt V3s. And then we got a bunch of kids that have absolutely cleaned up today uh from the caravan. I saw them earlier on publicity caravan. Uh it’s basically where they just throw a bunch of free trinkets and gifts and stuff like that. Uh but they had their little vests on probably from a summer camp of some sort uh nearby in the area and they were just getting rained on of free stuff. They had picked a spot uh kind of away from everyone and the caravan got stuck for a little while and uh I would say probably one of the premier jobs of caravan collection that I’ve seen to date. Okay, we got the flag collection man right now. I saw him earlier on as he was doing his rounds. Uh now he’s collecting all these flags from all the team buses. got about uh 10 minutes or so until the start of the stage. See the riders trickling down now. So, he’s gonna go ahead and grab his KM flag. He’s He’s literally taking the KM, folks, right now. That’s what you’re here for, these sort of jokes. There we go. He’s got the K. Also notable here is the Hammerhead Crew 3 with the custom paint shells uh on the women’s team of Canyon ShraMM. Of course, ShraMM makes the Hammerhead, so it stands to reason they would have those as well. Okay, at this point, they’re getting ready to start about 5 to 7 minutes left here. Uh some of the riders are loading up the course routes. I just saw that there. Some of them are doing calibration of their power meters. I just saw one of the Kofidus riders uh doing calibration of her Look power meter pedals from her Wahoo Bolt uh computer there. That custom skin job right there you can see in this photo. I’ll throw in right now some of the final summary stats on bike computers as well as power meters and some of the trainers and stuff that I saw. Keeping in mind that almost every team here for all these things is sponsored across the board. Uh it’s just a matter of what their rider preferences are within that given category. It is astounding how much this has grown year after year. Uh in terms of the team tech, in terms of the team’s uh equipment, um all that stuff just gets bigger and better year after year. And it’s simply proof of the fact that people do enjoy watching women’s cycling because if they didn’t, that money wouldn’t be there to go ahead and support these teams in those ways. So, if you keep on watching the women’s race and watching and reading about uh women’s cycling, then this side of cycling will continue to grow. And I think that’s great for everyone. With that, have a good one. Thanks for watching.