With Christmas on the horizon, in the event you’re seeking to purchase a present for a bike owner and you’ve got very deep pockets, then we have you coated. We have discovered Tadej Pogačar’s precise time trial bike from the 2023 season on the market, courtesy of BikeRoom.
An Italian reseller of previous-seasons’ WorldTour race bikes, BikeRoom has been round for a few years now, making a reputation for itself promoting bikes from EF Professional Biking, Staff Cofidis, Astana Qazaqstan, Bike Alternate and extra.
The newest addition to the shop is a uncommon breed although, it is the Colnago TT1 time trial bike, first launched on the 2022 Tour de France and raced by the Slovenian champion 4 instances in 2023. It is one in every of simply 4 fashions ever to be constructed, and as such does not have a price ticket.
As an alternative, the bike will probably be bought by way of public sale, beginning in a personal sale on Monday, December 11, and being opened as much as the general public on December 12 earlier than closing on December 18.
Naturally, the best bidder will take house the bike, and a spokesperson from BikeRoom instructed Cyclingnews that the corporate expects the sale worth to exceed €30,000. It is unlikely they will be allowed to make use of the web site’s Black Friday promotional code BLACK10 for a reduction.
Of the 4 bikes to exist, that is the one one that can go up on the market, as the opposite three have already discovered properties. The primary, with Pogačar himself. The second is reportedly with a likely-very-wealthy Saudi backer of the crew; and the third, we’re instructed, was gifted to Richard Mille, the posh watchmaking sponsor of the UAE Staff Emirates crew, whose watches fetch a mean worth of $200,000 and are generally seen on the wrists of professional cyclists, Pogačar included.
For the value, the fortunate winner of the public sale will personal a motorbike ridden in anger by Pogačar, though given he had a free alternative of 4 an identical time trial bikes, it is unclear at which race this explicit bike could have been used.
It could possibly be the one he rode to twenty first place on the World Championships in Glasgow in August, or it could possibly be the bike he rode when he dominated all however one in every of his rivals within the Tour de France Stage 16 time trial. It might even be a profitable bike, such because the one he piloted to the Nationwide Time Trial Championship victory in June. If we have been the homeowners of this bike, we might be claiming it was utilized in all three.
No matter its mileage or the scalps it is taken, this bike is extra a collector’s merchandise than anything, so whereas it will make for an unbelievable (and unbelievably costly) present for a biking superfan, it in all probability is not the Christmas present to purchase your aspiring time trial champion son or daughter for his or her coaching rides.