Ever questioned what occurs to the bikes utilized by the professionals on the finish of the season? Opposite to fashionable assumption – and presumably the wishes of each aspiring professional – the riders do not get to maintain them.
Okay, sometimes they do, particularly for bikes ridden to particular victories or throughout significantly fruitful seasons, however the majority return to the group and are both gifted to sponsors, stripped for elements, or bought off quietly.
To that final level, Italian web site BikeRoom is aiming to take away the ‘quietly’ and join the vendor with most of the people. It has beforehand bought Tadej Pogacar’s time trial bike for €35,000, and proper now it has one of many bikes ridden by Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard within the 2022 season up on the market.
It is most likely not the bike he used to really win the Tour in 2022, primarily as a result of that is the Cervelo Caledonia 5 and he spent nearly all of his race aboard the model’s light-weight R5 and aero S5, however there’s each probability it was utilized in lesser races, and an ideal chance he used it for coaching.
It is a 54cm, and it is geared up with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, which was utilized by the group earlier than making the swap to SRAM.
If you happen to got here right here searching for a used-bike discount, this one most likely is not for you because it’ll set you again the princely sum of €13,390. That is greater than the worth of the bike for those who had been to enter a store and ask for a brand new one. Naturally, the attract of using a Tour champion’s bike provides worth, and that is most likely extra of a collector’s merchandise than one thing you will match mudguards onto and journey in winter.
The Danish famous person is not the one massive identify from Jumbo Visma (these days generally known as Visma-Lease A Bike) whose bike is on sale for the time being although. Solely two riders from the Black-And-Yellow-Brigade might declare to be larger names than a person who has gained two Excursions de France, and they’re Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos.
There are usually not one however three bikes bearing the Van Aert sticker, oddly in several sizes. There are two R5-CX cyclocross bikes, each sized 58cm, presumably with new bearings following a season of fixed strain washing. After which there is a 56cm Caledonia 5; one expects the smaller measurement is because of that bike’s comparatively relaxed place.
Fortunately for followers of the multidisciplinarian, these bikes are cheaper, however they’ll nonetheless set you again €10,647.54 every.
Maybe probably the most visually alluring bike among the many assortment is the World Champion’s Version R5-CX beforehand belonging to Vos, with its rainbow fork changing the standard yellow.
It is a measurement 51 and can set you again a slightly-less painful €8,516.39. If you happen to’d favor to save cash, or to keep away from main folks right into a false pretence about your cyclocross skills, then her commonplace (non-World-Champion) R5-CX can also be accessible for €7,860.66.
Naturally, the location is not restricted to Jumbo-Visma bikes, and there are many different groups which you can now fake to journey for.
These on a tighter finances will discover higher offers elsewhere. There is a Big Propel from Workforce Jayco Alula with 52% off, yours for lower than €5,000; Tanja Erath’s Cannondale SuperSix is there at underneath €4,000, and there is even a Bottecia Emme from the 2022 Workforce Drone Hopper-Androni squad, for those who’d favor to go extra left-field along with your professional group cosplay.