{"id":55993,"date":"2026-07-23T20:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/55993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:46:24","slug":"what-you-can-learn-from-a-tour-de-france-pro-riding-the-wrong-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/55993\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Learn From a Tour de France Pro Riding the &#8220;Wrong&#8221; Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.4ddebeb.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>1 min readToday\u2019s 185.2km mountain stage from Voiron to Orci\u00e8res-Merlette included nearly 12,800 feet of climbing and a summit finish, giving the breakaway specialists one of their final opportunities to win before the Tour\u2019s decisive stages on Alpe d\u2019Huez. Bicycling\u2019s expert staff brings useful nuance to one of cycling\u2019s oldest equipment arguments: whether the lightest bike or the most aerodynamic bike is always the fastest choice.The bigger takeaway for everyday riders is that the fastest bike on paper is not automatically the best bike for every rider, route, or kind of riding.<br data-node-id=\"0.2.1\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Watch to see how Bicycling\u2019s expert staff turns Isaac del Toro\u2019s supposedly \u201cwrong\u201d Tour bike choice into a helpful advice for choosing your next bike. By comparing the lighter Colnago V5Rs he rode to victory on Stage 2 with the more aerodynamic Y1Rs ridden by teammate Tadej Poga\u010dar, the conversation explains why complete-bike weight, rider role, handling, and confidence can matter as much as a wind-tunnel number. The value for everyday riders is a smarter way to define \u201cbest\u201d: not simply the bike that wins one isolated calculation, but the one that best matches how, where, and why you ride.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Richard Carapaz attacked from the breakaway with four kilometers remaining on the final climb and rode alone to the stage victory.<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"113th Tour de France 2026 - Stage 18\" title=\"113th Tour de France 2026 - Stage 18\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4825\" height=\"3216\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2b1ebac3-f118-4755-b39f-d007016ddafd.jpeg\" class=\"css-0 e1ddfba50\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tim de Waele\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Stage 18 Podium<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">\ud83e\udd47 Richard Carapaz<br data-node-id=\"7.1\"\/>\ud83e\udd48 Mauro Schmid<br data-node-id=\"7.3\"\/>\ud83e\udd49 Matteo Jorgenson<br data-node-id=\"7.5\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">GC After Stage 18<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Tadej Poga\u010dar<br data-node-id=\"9.1\"\/>Remco Evenepoel +4m 32s<br data-node-id=\"9.3\"\/>Isaac Del Toro +6m 51s<br data-node-id=\"9.5\"\/>Paul Seixas +7m 11s<br data-node-id=\"9.7\"\/>Juan Ayuso +9m 22s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 min readToday\u2019s 185.2km mountain stage from Voiron to Orci\u00e8res-Merlette included nearly 12,800 feet of climbing and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,7271,1696],"class_list":["post-55993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-france","tag-supes","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}