{"id":307045,"date":"2025-07-31T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307045\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:44:28","slug":"what-bike-computers-sports-tech-are-they-using","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307045\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bike Computers & Sports Tech Are They Using?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The tech on the women\u2019s side of the Tour de France continues to grow, almost universally matching the men\u2019s side (especially on the WorldTeams list), which is awesome to see. I checked out two stages this week to see what bike computers they were riding with, as well as a quick glance at power meters and smart trainers. In general, these results probably won\u2019t surprise too many, as most of these teams are sponsored for almost every component.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s interesting too see what preferences the riders have around areas like bike computers (where Wahoo\/Garmin generally let the individual riders choose), as well as how the teams decide which trainers to take with them. In the case of the 2025 edition of the women\u2019s tour, there is no time trial stage. That generally makes the teams lives *far* easier (not having to carry two full sets of bike types\/etc\u2026), and also means teams tend to carry lighter\/smaller trainers, which are only used briefly before some stages, and often by only a few riders.<\/p>\n

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Whereas for time-trial days, teams tend to carry their premier trainers as supplied by Garmin-Tacx\/Elite\/Wahoo\/etc\u2026 Nonetheless, almost all of the teams had riders warming up before the stage on Wednesday, which marks a bit of a departure from the past. Especially given some teams had the entire team riding. Historically, it was pretty rare to see anything more than a random rider doing a pre-stage warm-up on a regular non-TT day (or some other short stage).<\/p>\n

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In any event, on the bike computer side, it was the Garmin & Wahoo sponsorship festival that we\u2019ve come to know. The singular exceptions being Canyon-SRAM\u2019s Hammerhead Karoo 3, given the SRAM ownership of Hammerhead. And then St. Michel was on iGPSSport.<\/p>\n

In the UCI pro cycling scene hierarchy, the WorldTeams (previously called \u2018WorldTour\u2019 teams) are the highest with the most money and points. These are basically guaranteed slots to the Tour de France (on mens and women\u2019s side). The next level down are teams that can get an invite, called ProTeams, and are usually more regional in nature. I suspect this will be the last year we see any of the invited ProTeams not having complete sports tech sponsors (which is a massive upgrade from years ago, where almost none of those teams had any standardized sports tech).<\/p>\n

On the bike computer side, virtually all of the riders on the Wahoo sponsored teams were riding Wahoo BOLT 3, with just a few ROAM 2 units (I didn\u2019t seen any ROAM 3, but with 154 riders, it\u2019s very likely I didn\u2019t see some (pro riders tend to hold onto their bike computers at all times, taking it off the bike when they aren\u2019t on it).<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, on the Garmin side, almost all riders were on the Edge 840, with a sprinkling on the Edge 1050. Again, this is rider choice here, Garmin lets the riders choose whichever unit they want from the list.<\/p>\n

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Both companies have special sticker schemes for their teams, though not all teams took advantage of it.<\/p>\n

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Even a Garmin Edge 1050 in either a shell or stickers, it\u2019s unclear to me exactly. But this was the green jersey variant:<\/p>\n

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Hammerhead also equipped their riders with some of the colorful accessory shells. These appeared to be from the stock set of colors, though I suspect they have special jersey ones as well.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the iGPSSport iGS800:<\/p>\n

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Finally, on the power meter front, it\u2019s a pretty solid blend of Shimano, SRAM, and FSA. Shimano as always sponsors the most teams (or, has bike frame sponsors that equip the bikes with Shimano), though we continue to see the FSA PowerBox (which is powered by Power2Max) on a number of pro teams. We do also see LOOK power meters on Cofidis, as well as Favero on Winspace.<\/p>\n

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And finally, a full chart of everything:<\/p>\n

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In any case, check out the above video for all sorts of sports tech goodness, including that awesome cat ear case for the Wahoo BOLT. I\u2019m hoping we\u2019ll see Wahoo & Garmin get into the animal case accessory market soon. So much potential.<\/p>\n

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