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A $70,000 bike? Tadej Pogačar's Tour de France-winning Colnago Y1Rs up for auction

Slovenian's 2025 Tour de France bike among four famous Colnagos currently being auctioned at Sotheby's

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Colnago Y1Rs Tadej Pogačar rode at Tour de France and won World Championships on sells for $190,500, more than 10 times its value new

He didn't stop there on the Colnago, either, winning the World Championships and the Europeans too, oh and Il Lombardia

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DT Swiss abandons steel spokes in its flagship climbing wheels; Enve drops a cheaper bar; and Colnago expands it's steel frame range in a topsy turvy round up of the week's tech

All change this week with DT Swiss abandoning it's own flagship spoke in favour of carbon, and Enve hints at improved supply chain with a move to a new factory for it's latest bar, plus new gadgets from Topeak

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Bike check: The new Colnago T1Rs track bike

Up close and personal with Colnago's new track machine which it claims is it's fastest bike ever

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Colnago's new track bike looks like a mix between their TT and road options, but you won't see Tadej Pogačar riding it

The T1Rs is an exercise in design specificity, not a melding of the two – designed to be the fastest way around a velodrome.

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The best bikes and tech trends from the UCI Gravel World Championships 2025

Narrower tyres, 2x chainsets, mullet arrangements, and tyre pressure monitors were just some of the headline trends

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'I remain sceptical about the equipment supplier' - Ex pro Lilian Calmejane questions the competitiveness of the Van Rysel RCR

Retired French pro Calmejane weighs in on the machine ridden by Paul Seixas at the European Championships

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Wind tunnel testing aero bikes: Wild Factor prototype, Colnago Y1Rs, Cervelo S5, Ridley Noah and eight others compared in our biggest aero group test yet

Factor's crazy prototype nearly takes a clean sweep, while Cervélo and Colnago impress

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What is the fastest bike in the world? We tested 12 of the latest all-out aero bikes in the wind tunnel to find out

Is the Cervélo S5 faster than the Colnago Y1Rs? Does Factor's wild prototype live up to its spaceship looks? Can OEM upstarts hold their own against established Western brands? Can budget-friendly brands beat premium Italians such as Bianchi? We answer all these questions and more

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$26k Vuelta themed Colnago, a helmet with skirts for any occasion, and a Rapha x Factor 'Ray Gun' collab

We round up the latest tech including an exclusive C68, an artist edition Monza, a Pogacar favoured camera and a TT helmet worn by Tom Pidcock

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What’s it like to ride Tadej Pogačar’s race bike? I tested the $21,000 Colnago Y1Rs to find out

Mad looking, brilliant on flat and rolling terrain, but make no mistake this is a bike for pros only

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Tour de France Femmes tech wrap-up: Who won with what?

And why do the female pros prefer lightweight bikes, when the men tend to choose aero bikes?

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The Tour de France just killed the climbing bike - here’s the physics that proves it

A lightweight bike must be easier to ride on a hilly course? The science says no, and this is why the climbing bike might be dead in WorldTour racing, but it doesn't mean they're of no use to you and I.

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Battle of the brands: Who won with what at the 2025 Tour de France?

A comprehensive tech wrap-up from the men's lap of France

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Five tech trends that dominated the 2025 Tour de France

No surprises here as Tadej Pogačar and aerodynamics took centre stage, here are our hot-takes on the tech deployed and bike hacks that worked

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8 useful things Tour de France pros use, that we might actually bother buying

The Tour de France welcomes oodles of new gear which we love poring over. Some of it makes no sense to riders like you and I, but if it were our money, what would we buy and why?

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No paint, no bar tape, no bottles: take a look at the bike that Tadej Pogačar rode to Tour de France stage 13 glory

Shaved paint, no bar tape and 140mm rotors - UAE Team Emirates XRG went all in to make GC leader, Tadej Pogačar's Colnago Y1RS as light as possible for the 16% pitches of Stage 13

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Tadej Pogačar's heavily modified 6.9kg Colnago Y1Rs for his Tour de France mountain time trial domination

No paint, no tape, and no bottles for this single-minded machine

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Tadej Pogačar destroyed GC riders in stage 12 of the Tour de France with a solo breakaway on the Hautacam - check out the bike he used for the climb and it's not his V5RS

A closer look at the full-aero Colnago Y1Rs setup the defending champion piloted to win the first mountain stage of this year's Tour de France

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Tour de France winning bikes: Which brand has won the most Tours in history?

A history of the most successful bike brands at the Tour de France

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Tadej Pogačar’s Tour de France Colnago time trial bike setup

We stopped by the UAE team bus to get up close and personal with Tadej Pogačar’s Colnago TT1 ahead of stage 5 of the Tour De France

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Tadej Pogačar's weapon of choice, the Colnago V5Rs, reviewed: Not a bike that WOWs but one that wins you over

Fast, refined, relentlessly capable...but be prepared to pay the Tadej Tax for it

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PNS collab with Colnago, Scarab handmade steel, and a reimagined classic in the latest Parlee P-Zero. Rouvy members read on to the end!

Updated models from Scarab, Parlee and Pearson, a limited-edition fashion forward Colnago, wider tyres from Hutchinson and new pricing plans from Rouvy

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Are we seeing the beginning of the end for consumer-level race bikes, and does it actually matter?

This new prototype Factor is yet another bike that’s so clearly for the pros, and suggests a rift is starting between consumer bikes and pro bikes

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How did they keep this a secret? Insane new Factor prototype blows minds at the Dauphiné

Is it a road bike, or just a road legal TT bike?

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