Tour de France 2024 tech wrap up: Who gained with what?

With the mud already selecting from a Tour de France set for the historical past books we have a look past the riders and see what manufacturers got here away with probably the most wins from this 12 months’s race. 

This 12 months seems to be to have been the 12 months that basically cemented the all-rounder superbike as the selection of the peloton with extra stage wins than ever; the highest seven on GC (besides Jonas Vingegaard) all driving one bike for all of the street phases. 

On his technique to sealing the general victory by over six minutes, Tadej Pogačar additionally claimed six particular person stage wins probably the most {that a} winner has taken since Bernard Hinault in 1979 (the Tour additionally had 24 phases again then). 

On high of the bikes you may count on to see on the rostrum of the Tour de France, there have been additionally some less-expected manufacturers that claimed their place within the 2024 Tour. From wheelsets to groupsets we unpack the tech winners and losers from this 12 months’s race. 

Which bikes did greatest? 

2024 noticed a various profitable pool of bikes with 12 producers laying declare to a stage win. The variety of bike manufacturers sharing the wins has been on the rise from 2021 the place solely seven completely different producers stood on the rostrum to 10 in each 2022 and 2023. 

Coming out head and shoulders above the remainder was Colnago’s V4Rs which was ridden to 6 stage win victories and the general GC by Pogačar. Following in a distant second place was the Canyon Aeroad ridden by Jasper Philipsen and Cube’s Litening Aero C:68X with three wins a bit, although the Cube maybe will get the second place on countback by advantage of additionally taking the inexperienced jersey.

Specialized, even with two of the pre-race podium contenders on its Tarmac SL8, solely managed to come back away with a single stage win with the Shiv TT.

Most definitely one of many groups hoping for extra would have been Lidl-Trek who got here away empty-handed with a poor displaying for the newly launched Gen 8 Madone after Mads Pedersen deserted forward of stage 8. For the primary time since 2021, Ineos Grenadiers additionally got here away with no wins having narrowly missed out on breakaway success with Michał Kwiatkowski on stage 18.

ENVE streets forward of the remainder

Although solely a sponsor of two groups within the race, ENVE is sitting fairly as probably the most profitable wheel model of this 12 months’s Tour. Adding to Pogačar’s haul of stage wins was stage 9 winner Anthony Turgis (Team Total Energies) bringing the American model to seven wins in 2024. 

Vision supplies extra groups than some other with wheels with 4 groups rolling on the Metron vary of carbon wheels. Along with Shimano and Newman, these manufacturers all claimed three victories every. Biniam Girmay’s three-stage wins en path to his total inexperienced jersey win actually solidified each Cube’s and Newman’s place within the tech rankings. 

Out of the remaining manufacturers that discovered their means throughout the ending line first, it was Orbea’s personal wheel model Oquo that’s seemingly the least well-known of the bunch of winners. Campenaerts’ breakaway escapade gave Oquo its first Tour de France victory. 

A gripping tyre battle

Tubeless tyres are right here to stick with all however one of many stage wins from this 12 months’s Tour de France coming from tubeless techniques. This is sensible as tubeless tyres have been proven to roll quicker than each the tubular tyres, although some riders on Specialized sponsored groups nonetheless go for cotton clinchers with latex interior tubes for wattage causes. 

It was a lifeless warmth between the 2 most ample tyre producers within the peloton with Vittoria and Continental each taking 10 stage wins. The solely exception to this got here courtesy of time trial World Champion Remco Evenepoel on the stage 7 TT the place he used Specialized’s S-Works Turbo Cotton tyres with latex interior tubes to take his maiden Tour de France win. 

Shimano virtually untouchable 

2024 marks the primary 12 months that the Tour de France has been with out a group utilizing a Campagnolo groupset. This signifies that it was a two-horse race between Shimano and SRAM for stage honours. 

From a numbers perspective, Shimano does have the higher hand on this entrance offering 18 of the 22 groups current with its flagship Dura-Ace Di2 groupset. The remaining 4 groups of Movistar, Lidl-Trek, Visma-Lease a Bike and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe all use SRAM’s newest technology wi-fi Red AXS providing. 

2024 was a very unhealthy 12 months for SRAM on the Tour de France coming away with a solitary win courtesy of Vingegaard on stage 11. Beyond this, the remaining 20 phases have been all claimed by Shimano-equipped groups in a dominant show from the Japanese element producer. 

New bikes struggled for wins this 12 months

The two greatest bike releases forward of the Tour de France got here from Trek with the brand new Madone and Pinarello with an replace to the Dogma F. Neither of those manufacturers managed a lot in the best way of success with Kwiatkowski coming closest with a 3rd place on stage 18. 

Although not formally launched to the general public till the previous couple of phases Canyon did have extra success with its new fourth-generation Aeroad. With three stage wins by the hands of Jasper Philipsen the brand new Aeroad CFR has bought off to a flying begin.  

All the tech from the 2024 Tour de France