febbraio 07, 2022

WorldTour team bikes 2022: The complete list

An updated look at what the pros will be using at the Tour de France along with the season's remaining races

Words: Joseph Delves

Mmmm. New and shiny things. While pandemic-related delays have made getting hold of bikes tricky for many, plenty of teams are now equipped with the machines they’ll be riding for the coming season. However, this year there’s been a marked reduction in the chopping and changing of suppliers, with most teams seemingly keen to hold onto any sponsors they already have. This early in the season is also a slow time of year for new models, so most squads are currently making do with new paint jobs rather than redesigned bikes. Expect this to change as the weather and the racing hots up.

Below you’ll find all the latest 2022 season team bikes that have broken cover. Expect any stragglers to be updated as newer versions arrive on the scene.

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Ineos Grenadiers

Pinarello Dogma F, Pinarello Bolide

The 2022 season appears to be the year Ineos finally parts ways with its old-fashioned brakes. Is this because quicker wheel changes are now no longer considered a marginal gain? Could it be related to the fact Pinarello’s bikes are now a bit lighter? Who can say?

Either way, in both formats, Pinarello’s Dogma remains the world’s most winning bicycle. Unusually, rather than split its range, Pinarello employs the Dogma to cover both lightweight and aero duties. Updated last year in time for the Tour, this latest model supersedes the F12 and is dubbed simply the Dogma F. Tweaked rather than rebuilt from scratch, it’s lighter and stiffer than any previous Dogma, plus it’s now also wireless-only.

Still being offered with either rim or disc brakes, the fact that you can now build it almost to the UCI’s 6.8 kg weight limit in either format will likely leave Tadej Pogačar and Colnago as the peloton's last advocates of traditional callipers.

You can read about the bike's launch here.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Shimano and Lightweight

SD Worx

Specialized Tarmac, Specialized Roubaix, Specialized Shiv

Formerly known as Boels–Dolmans, it’s lucky the mighty SD Worx team has so many national and world champions in its ranks, if only because their jerseys water down the effect of that purple kit. Weirdly, applied to the squad’s Specialized S-Works bicycles the unusual combo of red, black, and purple is significantly more appealing.

With Specialized recently aeroifying its Tarmac and killing off the Venge, the SD Worx riders will spend the most time aboard this all-rounder, allowing them to save the more forgiving Roubaix for bumpier Classics. Following Demi Vollering winning what's likely to be the last ever La Course by Le Tour de France, this year the team will be back targeting the extended eight-day women's Tour.

Groupset: SRAM Red eTap AXS

Wheels: Roval

Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert team bike

Cube Litening, Cube Aerium

How Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert’s kit manages to accommodate so many clashing logotypes and yet still look the business I don’t know. Its bikes, produced by German firm Cube, also look very nice. A lot of this is down to the Newmen wheels. Pasted with perhaps the nicest of the almost twenty different fonts dotted across rider, bike, and kit, their spinning logos can’t help but make the squad’s riders look fast.

With Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert bringing Cube bikes with it when it levelled-up to WorldTour in 2021, this is only the second time its machines will have been seen at this level. With the brand’s Litening model likely to do most of the work, the Aerium will get held back for time trials.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Newmen

Bora-Hansgrohe

Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7, Specialized S-Works Shiv

Already sponsoring the mighty SD Worx and Deceuninck-Quick Step teams, Bora-Hansgrohe represents Specialized’s cheeky side-bet. Having already convinced riders the world over to max-out their credit card on a new extractor hood for their cooker and shower for their bathroom, the influence of Peter Sagan has probably helped shift a few bikes too.

However, the 2022 season sees the Slovak rider off to TotalEnergies. Taking his sponsor with him, they'll now be the fourth WorldTour team on Specialized bikes. Perhaps the quartet of teams should start a mini-league. Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Roval

Human Powered Health

Felt AR, Felt FR, Felt DA

A USA-based team with a USA-based bike supplier. Californian firm Felt supplies bikes to both Human Powered Health's men's and women's teams. However, it's just the women who will be competing in the most significant events, thanks to their WorldTour licence. Matching the squad's orange kit, the team's bikes are slightly more restrained, limiting themselves to just orange and black rather than adding purple into the mix, as do their jerseys.

Unsurprisingly, Felt's AR is the more aero of its two road bikes, while the DA is just for time trials. Interestingly, from what we've seen the team seem to be racing on Sram's second-tier Force groupset. However, seeing as their bikes probably make the weight cut anyway, saving a few quid on parts is likely to come with little in the way of drawbacks.

Groupset: SRAM Force eTap AXS

Wheels: Vision

Lotto-Soudal

Ridley Helium, Ridley Noah Fast, Ridley Dean TT

Repping gambling, household fixatives and proper bike racing. Belgian team Lotto-Soudal is the oldest cycling team in the world, and perhaps also the coolest. Looking to add more victories to the thousand or so it’s already snatched, this year both its men’s and women’s squads will continue to employ Ridley bicycles.

Almost as aggressive as their pilots, the Flanders-based bikemaker’s slender Helium model will do for the mountains or races where comfort is in high demand. Otherwise, the Noah Fast will come out when speed is of the essence. Recently swapping from Campagnolo to Shimano, the team now also rolls on DT Swiss wheels.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: DT Swiss

Total Energies

Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7, Specialized S-Works Shiv

It’s all change at French team TotalEnergies. For one, its sponsor gains an an ‘s’ to become plural and assumedly suggest it’s now also into windfarms or something similar. More excitingly for cycling fans, it also gains an ‘s’ for Sagan.

Arriving with the multiple-time World Champion comes his perennial bike sponsor Specialized. Displacing Wilier, Specialized now sponsors so many teams I’m refusing to explain its range again every time one of them crops up. Basically, despite making a host of great racing bikes, its sponsored riders all use the Tarmac most of the time anyway. With a nod to his Slovak heritage, and top bod status, Sagan gets his own custom blue and red version, while the rest of the team have to make do with matching red ones.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Roval

Team BikeExchange

Giant TCR Advanced SL Disc, Giant Propel Advanced SL Disc, Giant Trinity Advanced Pro

Team BikeExchange continue to live up to its name with a third bicycle sponsor in as many years. So out goes Italian firm Bianchi, in comes Taiwanese behemoth Giant. Giving both men’s and women’s squads a whole new set of toys to play with, the team has decided to paint each in either pink or blue, so no one gets confused as to whose is whose.

Regardless of colour, both sets of riders are likely to find themselves spending the majority of their time aboard the aerodynamic Propel, while climbers like Simon Yates will reach for the more slender TCR Advanced SL Disc when things get hilly. Recently relaunched as a stand-alone brand, the team are also expected to be using Cadex’s hookless and tubeless wheels. .

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Disc

Wheels: Cadex

Israel Start-Up Nation

Factor Ostro VAM, Factor Slick

Despite what you might hear from fellow golfers on the links, Chris Froome's success was not actually entirely down to the Italian firm’s pricey bicycles. Now battling to return to the front of the pack, his weapon of choice is Factor's Ostro Vam, which has superseded both the O2 and the Vista as the brand's flagship bike.

He has already set the cycling internet alight this season with his now infamous bike review where he questioned exactly how much benefit the bike's disc brakes really offered. On one hand, it was a tad negative for the Ostro, but at the same time the most publicity Factor bikes has ever had. So this is a partnership that is already paying dividends.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Disc with Rotor power meters

Wheels: Black Inc

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl

Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7, Specialized S-Works Shiv

Shop S-Works Tarmac

The Specialized S-Works Tarmac is now the brand’s default race bike. Seemingly sponsoring half the peloton, it’s also rapidly becoming the default bike, period. However, of all the teams the Californian bike maker sponsors, its relationship with Quick-Step has been the most fruitful. Proving so again, 2022 will likewise see Alaphilippe’s bike done up in rainbow stripes.

Despite being a Classics-focused squad, Specialized’s cobble-gobbling Roubaix rarely seems to get a look in with the Wolfpack these days. However, the team has occasionally experimented with sending riders out on its consumer-focused Aethos for extra comfort on transition stages. So it’s possible that bike might again get thrown into the mix. Otherwise, expect the Tarmac to cover everything that doesn’t require the TT bars found on the Shiv.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Roval

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UAE Team ADQ

Colnago V3rs, Colnago K-One

Having snaffled up most of the defunct Alé BTC Ljubljana team’s riders, the new UAE Team ADQ won’t be entirely unfamiliar to cycling fans. However, bringing it in line with the similarly UAE-backed men’s team, its riders will take on the 2022 season aboard new bikes. Migrating from one Italian brand to another, its riders will switch from Cipollini to Colnago.

So far, we’ve only seen this lovely custom V3rs, which, if the men’s team is anything to go by, will be the rider's mainstay. Also likely employing the K-One for time trials, the team keeps everything matching with Campagnolo groupsets and wheels.Groupset: Campagnolo Record EPS

Wheels: Campagnolo

Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

Dare MA-AFO, Dare VSRu, Dare TSRf

The Norwegian Uno-X Pro team opts for bikes from direct-to-consumer firm Dare. Seemingly enjoying a close relationship with the firm, the team also appears to be handling PR for the brand. Working on the assumption that red ones are always quicker, each team build comes with an all-over red paint job.

Free from excessive logos, they're particularly neat looking, while watt geeks will appreciate the inclusion of Ceramic Speed jockey wheels and cages. Produced in Taiwan, the MA-AFO is the skinny one, the VSRu the aero one, and the TSRf is time-trial one.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: DT Swiss

AG2R Citröen

BMC Teammachine SLR01, BMC Timemachine 01

Shop BMC Teammachine SLR01

in 2021 French outfit AG2R Citröen Team switched from Eddy Merckx Cycles to Swiss maker BMC. This left the newly refocused team chasing the Classics aboard the brand’s latest Teammachine SLR01 while tackling any time-trials they might find themselves presented with on the Timemachine 01 (the time trial specific Timemachine that is, not to be confused with the Timemachine Road).

In an unusual twist, the sponsorship arrangement means they'll be riding Campagnolo groupsets, which is a pairing of brand and groupset we haven't seen since the days of Phonak.

Groupset: Campagnolo Super Record EPS

Wheels: Campagnolo

Movistar Team

Canyon Ultimate, Canyon Aeroad, Canyon Speedmax

Shop Canyon

Movistar sticks with long-term sponsor Canyon. Teased by the men’s and women’s squads last year, the recently redesigned Aeroad road bike will be both outfits’ default choice. Less aggressively slippery, the Ultimate might also get occasional use, while the Speedmax will serve for solo racing and team time trials.

Groupset: SRAM Red eTap AXS

Wheels: Zipp

Jumbo–Visma

Cervelo R5, Cervelo S5, Cervelo P5

While the radically shaped S5 is the most distinctive of Cervelo's bicycles, it was the more conventional-looking machine spotted beneath Primoz Roglic this April that got bike nerds twitching.

Eventually revealed as the new R5, it remains Cervelo's most classically styled bicycle. Now slicker and more versatile than the former self, it's also spawned a cyclocross-specific variant, the R5-CX - good news for multi-discipline stars Wout van Aert and and Marianne Vos.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Shimano

Team DSM

Scott Addict RC, Scott Foil, Scott Plasma

American bicycle behemoth Scott provides the machines to support the male and female DSM squads. With the pointy looking Foil for sprint races, the Addict RC will come out in the mountains leaving the brand’s Plasma for time-trials.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Disc

Wheels: Shimano

Cofidis Solutions Crédits

De Rosa Merak, SK Pininfarina, De Rosa TT-03

As I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to discover, it’s not escaped my notice how handsome the Cofidis lot are looking this year. From team kit to personal grooming, the whole shebang is a vast improvement on previous iterations. Having swapped bikes a few times in recent years, this year they’ve also stuck with De Rosa, which is a good move because De Rosa bikes are also devilishly handsome.

With a pick of either the Merak or SK Pininfarina, I’d always imagined these were too boutique to be high-volume sellers. With retro-futurist looks, red paint, and Campagnolo Record disc groupsets, even if they do nothing but hang themselves out in the break they’ll at least be a pleasure to look at.

Groupset: Campagnolo Record EPS

Wheels: Fulcrum

B&B Hotels p/b KTM

KTM Revelator Alto, KTM Revelator Lisse, KTM Solus
As known for motorbikes as pedal-powered machines, KTM supplies bikes to the French B&B Hotels p/b KTM team.

While France supplies most of the team's riders, Austrian firm KTM delivers the bikes. Providing riders including Franck Bonnamour and Kévin Reza a choice between its skinny Revelator Alto and more aerodynamic Revelator Lisse bikes, both come built up with DT wheels and Shimano components. In a slight deviation from the standard groupset, FSA furnishes the carbon fibre crankset and bars.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 with FSA cranksets

Wheels: DT Swiss

Canyon-Sram

Canyon Aeroad, Canyon Ultimate, Canyon Speedmax
Despite having parted company with Rapha, Canyon-Sram continues to be the best turned-out team in the peloton. Matching its Astral Burn jerseys designed by Ultan Coyle, the team's bikes also get similarly striking liveries. Continuing the diamonds found on the team’s sleeves down onto the legs of their forks, the riders get a mix of both mauve and white bikes, depending on the model used.

Home to established powerhouses Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Chloé Dygert, the Canyon-Sram riders will be using the mauve Ultimate CF when in the hills and the dangerously sharp looking Aeroad across flatter terrain. Provided by direct-to-consumer brand Canyon bicycles, they’re sure to provoke envy from amateur racers and hatred from bike shop owners in equal measure.

Time trials, of which the team has more than a few riders capable of winning, will get covered by the firm’s Speedmax. Replicating both the bikes and kit list of the similarly outfitted Movistar squad, we think Canyon-Sram definitely has the edge when it comes to styling.

Groupset: SRAM Red eTap AXS

Wheels: Zipp

UAE Team Emirates

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Colnago V3rs, Colnago K-One

Now the winner of two back-to-back Tours, Tadej Pogačar is the latest rider to help Colnago add another win to its extensive collection. Coming after something of a drought for the Italian firm, Ernesto has certainly got his money’s worth.

Repeatedly switching between disc and rim brakes to tailor the weight of his bike depending on the stage, he’s one of the last great advocates for rim braking. Happy to supply him with either technology, Colnago provides him with the V3rs for road stages and the K-One time trials. On occasions, like during the decisive stage of the 2020 Tour de France, you might even see him using both in a single day.

Often switching to the disc version for training or muckier races, all UAE Team Emirates’ bikes come finished off with equally Italian Campagnolo wheels and Record EPS gruppos.

Groupset: Campagnolo Record EPS

Wheels: Campagnolo

FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope

Lapierre Aircode, Lapierre Xelius, Lapierre Aerostorm

Before we get onto bikes, how cool would it be to be sponsored by a theme park? Even if that theme park had a weird educational bent and instead of rides was based around multimedia cinema shows, and if I remember correctly from my last visit in the 90s, included a soundtrack provided by the Pet Shop Boys?

Pretty cool huh? Not cool like Universal Studios Hollywood, but still good.

Anyway, continuing its dedication to all things French, the FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope team has paired with Dijon-based Lapierre to supply its bikes. While the Aircode would seem an obvious all-around choice, the team also regularly employs the more swoopy and forgiving Xelius. With the Aerostorm doing for time trials, all come decked-out with Shimano Dura-Ace groupsets and wheels.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Shimano

Groupama - FDJ

Lapierre Aircode, Lapierre Xelius, Lapierre Aerostorm

Like its sister-squad, FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope, the Groupama - FDJ men race on French-designed Lapierre bikes. These now include an updated version of the Xelius. Trialled at the Critérium du Dauphiné, this latest third version of the firm's lightweight platform retains the unusual chainstay configuration, but now also benefits from much cleaner hidden cable routing.

Also sporting a new carbon cockpit, tube shapes across the bike have also been tweaked to make it a little more aero. Arriving done up in matt black and hung about with PRO components and Shimano wheels, they're significantly more handsome than previous versions.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2

Wheels: Shimano

Trek-Segafredo

Trek Émonda, Trek Madone, Trek Domane, Trek SpeedConcept

Shop Trek Madone

The clue is in the name. Caffeine and bicycle pedalling outfit Trek-Segafredo makes the unsurprising choice to stick with the eponymous Wisconsin-based brand. Listing three possible models alongside the time-trial-specific SpeedConcept, these are the slinky Émonda, versatile Madone, and cobble-capable Domane.

World Champion Elisa Balsamo will head up a very strong women’s roster aboard a rainbow bike, while on the men's side Giulio Ciccone will aim to give the Tifosi something to cheer.

Groupset: SRAM RED eTap AXS

Wheels: Bontrager

Astana-Qazaqstan

Wilier Filante SLR, Wilier 0 SLR, Wilier Turbine TT

After many years out of the WorldTour, we were very happy to see Wilier return to the peloton last year as the bike of choice for Astana (now Astana-Qazaqstan).

Wilier's new Filante will certainly be the eye-catcher for 2022. With fully integrated cabling and a host of technical wonders, it represents a substantial update from the brand's stalwart racer the Cento10Pro.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Disc

Wheels: Corima

Bahrain Victorious

Merida Reacto, Merida Scultura, Merida Warp TT

Shop Merida Reacto, Shop Merida Scultura

Merida might have been bumped as title sponsor of the vaingloriously-named Bahrain squad a few seasons ago, but it continues to supply the bicycles. Slipped out during the Tour's traditional prologue, the Critérium du Dauphiné, its latest Scultura got off to a good start in 2021 by helping propel Mark Padun to two consecutive wins in the mountains.

Clearly taking a few cues from the firm's other more recently updated bikes, it's likely to be rolled out only for the highest peaks. Leaving Merida's blade-like Reacto to deal with the flat and rolling stages, time-trial duties will be taken care of aboard the firm’s Warp TT.

Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Disc

Wheels: Vision Metron

EF Education-Nippo

Cannondale SuperSix Evo, SystemSix, SuperSlice

Jonathan Vaughters and Charly Wegelius’s outfit sticks with Cannondale bikes, no doubt planning to commit further atrocities upon them using neon pink paint and randomly aligned skateboard stickers later in the season. Out of the American brand’s bikes, the SystemSix is the most aero, so will get the most use. The Supersix might come out occasionally on bumpy days, while the vicious-looking SuperSlice will aim to cut down the competition in any time-trials.

Groupset: Shimano

Wheels: Vision

Roland-Cogeas-Edelweiss Squad

Look 795 Blade RS, 785 Huez RS, 796 Monoblade RS

Receiving confirmation of its WorldTour status just in time for the 2022 season, the Swiss-based Roland-Cogeas-Edelweiss Squad has existed in one form or another since 2018. With some surprised the gang was able to make the leap up this year, the team will be looking to solidify its status with opportunist results wherever it can. Riding on Look bikes from over the boarder in France, in the past its riders have generally stuck to the firm's calliper brake versions.

Groupset: Campagnolo Super Record EPS

Wheels: Corima