{"id":250317,"date":"2025-07-09T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:52:15","slug":"yellow-jersey-aside-what-kit-is-mathieu-van-der-poel-using-at-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250317\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow jersey aside, what kit is Mathieu van der Poel using at the Tour de France?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> reminds me of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. Stick with me, Cyclingnews readers, I’ll explain.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo transformed himself from a dazzling winger, with a penchant for stepovers and tricks over the final result, into an all-time great with an incredible goal-scoring record.<\/p>\n

Mathieu van der Poel has never favoured style over substance. But the crazy long-range attacks are gone.<\/a> When he’s in form and has targeted a race, the current leader of this year’s Tour de France<\/a> is lethal, with the power and confidence to deliver, almost every time.<\/p>\n

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He rode at his limit over the punchy climbs at the end of Stage 2,<\/a> and this is the impressive bit, then confidently sat on the front around the final right-hand bend at the finish before delivering his sprint to win the stage.<\/p>\n

He was confident no one would be able to come around him if he led it out. He pushed a bigger gear than Tadej Poga\u010dar and smoked the best riders in the world.<\/p>\n

He then followed up that performance with another exceptional ride today during stage 4<\/a>, following the world’s best climbers, this time just losing out to world champion Tadej Poga\u010dar, but doing enough to pip Vingegaard to the line and retain the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n

\"Mathieu<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Dario Belingheri\u00a0\/\u00a0Staff)<\/p>\n

The Dutchman’s bike and equipment have been fairly constant for years. Nothing much seems to change at Alpecin-Deceuninck equipment-wise, bar a fairly recent tyre change from Vittoria to Pirelli. <\/p>\n

His kit and equipment combine for an overall look that just works. It somehow all feels very familiar; there aren’t any insane bits of kit generally (unless you count a very expensive watch<\/a>), it’s all function, high-end stuff that helps him deliver.<\/p>\n

For a bit of distraction from the Prime Day deals hunt, I’ve run through the Dutchman’s kit and equipment for a look at what he uses, and how much it would cost if you wanted to replicate it yourself.<\/p>\n

No, it won’t help you win a Tour stage, but it is all top-end equipment that could provide an advantage, and by a stroke of Prime Day coincidence, some of it is discounted right now, including, surprisingly, the Dutchman’s signature Oakleys.<\/p>\n

Head to our Amazon Prime Day Live hub<\/strong><\/a> and Prime Day bike deals page<\/strong><\/a> for a roundup of all the best deals around.<\/p>\n

Mathieu van der Poel’s equipment<\/p>\n

Today’s best Shimano RC903 S-PHYRE Cycling Shoe deals<\/p>\n

UK deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathieu van der Poel reminds me of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. Stick with me, Cyclingnews readers, I’ll explain.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822430350572344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}