How much does a Tour de France bike cost?

Fancy a Tour de France bike for yourself? Well, you can have one. UCI rules say that everything used in top-level racing must be available to the consumer, or soon become available, so you can certainly lay your hands on anything you fancy – as long as you’re prepared to stump up enough cash.

Ah yeah, that’s the slight stumbling block. Money! The pros get the best stuff. The top-of-the-range stuff. Anything that’ll give them an advantage. And the sponsors like to get their premium products out there in the spotlight while millions of eyes are on cycling, of course. So, how much are we talking?

Some brands offer team replica bikes and/or framesets. You can buy a Cervelo S5 frameset in a Team Visma Lease a Bike finish for £5,500, for example.

But let’s look at a specific bike that’s used by one of the professionals in this year’s Tour de France, and let’s go right to the top: defending champion and four-time winner Tadej Pogacar.

Pogacar needs very little introduction, so we’ll keep it brief. He’s won pretty much everything. That’ll do. The 27-year-old Slovenian is in his eighth season with UAE Team Emirates – now UAE Team Emirates – XRG – sponsored by bike brand Colnago.

Pogacar spends his time on the Y1Rs, although the team also still uses V5Rs road bikes.

The Y1Rs is designed with aerodynamics in mind, and Colnago sees it as the best choice for flat stages and solo breakaways. On the other hand, the V5Rs is the lightest frame ever produced by Colnago, and it’s designed as an all-rounder, capable of tackling hills and mountains.

The Y1Rs costs from £11,681 while V5Rs prices start at £9,000.

Suppose you’d like the exact spec used by Tadej Pogacar, though.

Let’s take the Y1Rs that Pogacar rode in the Milan-San Remo 2026 (the main pic at the top of the page) as an example.

You can go to colnago.com and order a Y1Rs in a carbon finish with Pogacar-inspired world champion stripes on the fork and top tube. This finish is pretty minimalist, like the one Pogacar rides. You can also get the frame in a white finish with world champion bands on the fork and top tube for an extra £229.

Like most teams in the professional peloton, UAE Team Emirates uses Shimano’s top-level Dura-Ace Di2 groupset. No problem, you can order a Y1Rs that’s specced with Dura-Ace.

> Read our Shimano Dura-Ace R9200 groupset review

Wheels? UAE Team Emirates are sponsored by US brand Enve Composites.

Again, no problem. Colnago allows you to spec Enve SES 4.5 wheels (the model pictured here is actually the Enve SES 6.7).

Okay, that drives the price up a bit (you can buy an Enve SES 4.5 wheelset separately for £2,995-£3,350 depending on the hubs you choose, and Enve SES 4.5 Pro wheels for £4,100).

> Read our Enve SES 4.5 wheelset review

Colnago will sell you a complete Y1Rs bike (in black with world champion bands) with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset and Enve SES 4.5 wheels for £14,549.

The bike comes with a Selle Italia SLR Boost Kit Carbonio Superflow saddle, although UAE Team Emirates is supplied by Fizik and Pogacar uses a custom 3D-printed saddle made through the brand’s One-to-One program. With carbon rails, it’ll cost you £499.

> Read our review of Fizik’s One-to-One custom 3D-printed saddle

The tyres would be Pirelli P Zero Race, but UAE Team Emirates is sponsored by Continental, using tubeless models from the Grand Prix 5000 lineup. Pogacar relies heavily on the Continental Grand Prix 5000 S TR and the TT TR. Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tyres are priced at £104.95 each.

The chainrings that Pogacar uses aren’t part of the Shimano Dura-Ace groupset, they’re from Italy’s Carbon-Ti. You’re looking at €275 for an outer ring and €195 for an inner ring – so €470 (about £400) at full RRP.

The bottle cages are Elite Leggero Carbon, weighing just 17g a throw. They’re £29.99 each at full price, and you’ll probably want two of them.

If you really want to be sponsor-correct, UAE Team Emirates uses Elite Fly Tex bottles that cost £6.99 each.

Pogacar uses a Wahoo Element Bolt GPS bike computer. We’re up to the third generation now, priced at £299.99.

That computer has to sit on something. When he rides a Y1Rs, Pogacar has a 3D-printed Rocket Mount, designed by Dutch studio Hinloopen, that is integrated into the cockpit. It is priced at £131.

Rather than buying a full bike from Colnago, you could buy everything separately and put it together yourself. Here’s how much it would cost at full RRP:

• Colnago Y1Rs frameset £6,299
• Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset (inc power meter) £4,294.95
• Shimano Dura-Ace pedals £239.99
• Enve SES 4.5 Pro wheels £3,750
• Fizik One-to-One saddle £499
• Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tyres £104.95 x 2 = £209.90
• Carbon-Ti chainrings £400
• Elite Leggero Carbon bottle cages £29.99 x 2 = £59.98
• Elite Fly Tex bottles £6.99 x 2 = £13.98
• Wahoo Element Bolt GPS bike computer £299.99
• Hinloopen Rocket Mount computer mount £131
• Bikone DCTech bottom bracket £302
• Total £16,499.79

That’s if you bought all the parts separately, paid full price and didn’t get any discount, which would be a mad way to do it. You’d be able to get some of these parts cheaper if you shopped around.

The other option would be to copy Tadej Pogacar’s lead and just win everything in sight. Then you’ll get several of these bikes thrown your way, and you’ll be paid for the privilege of riding them. Simple.