How much do Tour de France bikes cost? The cheapest to most expensive Tour bikes ranked

With 23 teams in the Tour de France, there’s always a smörgåsbord of delicious race bikes to drool over. 

Drool from afar is about all most of us will ever do, though – the Tour is cycling’s biggest shop window and outrageously expensive bikes are all part of the fun. But which one is the most expensive, and which one is the cheapest? 

We’ve crunched the numbers on each team’s main road race bike. 

While futuristic time trial bikes, with their abundance of custom 3D-printed components, can cost far more, we’re sticking with each team’s main bike used during a typical mass-start road stage.

There may be slight differences between the bike you see the riders using and the model you can buy, but our prices should be indicative.

We've sorted the bikes in ascending order of their price in pounds sterling, although we’ve also included US dollar pricing (which, it's worth noting, won't always line up exactly). 

We’ve formed this dollar price from a currency conversion if those bikes aren’t available in the United States. These are marked with an asterisk. There's one bike that is not sold in the UK in a pro team spec, which also gets an asterisk.

23. XDS Astana Team's X-Lab AD9

• X-Lab AD9
• £7,000? / $8,500?

The XDS Astana Team's new Chinese-made X-Lab AD9 bike is a bit of a mystery, because it's sold online as a frameset only for only £2,500, or $3,150. That's around half the price of a frameset from many of its WorldTour-level competitors and around £1,500 less than the next-level-up Cube Litening Aero C:68X.

The bolt-ons, including a Dura-Ace groupset and snazzy Vision Metron 60 SL Disc wheels will bump the price up, but we reckon it's still the cheapest bike in the pro peloton by a decent chunk.

22. Intermarché-Wanty's Cube Litening Aero C:68X

• Cube Litening Aero C:68X
• £8,499 / $10,759

Another good-value top-end bike comes from Cube. Biniam Girmay’s Intermarché-Wanty team will be on the Litening Aero C:68X for most stages, again with full Shimano Dura-Ace groupsets. Newmen supplies the wheels, which have neatly hidden valves to remove one source of excess drag. 

The low list price of the Cube bike didn't stop Girmay in the 2024 Tour, where he led the points classification from stage 5 to the final podium.

21. Bahrain Victorious' Merida Reacto 

• Merida Reacto
• £8,500 / $10,760*

For £1 more, you can have the Merida Reacto of the Bahrain Victorious WorldTour team. 

This aero road bike is a little long in the tooth, with the fourth generation launched back in 2020. The mostly flat opening week saw the team riding a new Reacto, but we've yet to see any official spec or pricing details for it.

This is another Dura-Ace build, but Vision supplies the wheels and integrated front end.

20. Team Picnic PostNL's Lapierre Xelius DRS

• Lapierre Xelius DRS
• £8,547* / $11,474*

Team Picnic PostNL is on Lapierre bikes this year, with the Xelius DRS aero all-rounder, a bike that merges Lapierre's previous Aircode and Xelius into a single all-rounder model, launched towards the end of 2024.

The swap from the Scott Foil sees the team's bike becoming a lot more affordable, although Lapierre doesn't sell a team-level spec either in the UK or the US, so we've taken the Euro price for the team replica.

It's one of the main Shimano-sponsored teams – it’s where we first saw the latest Shimano Dura-Ace components pop up in 2021.

19. Alpecin-Deceuninck's Canyon Aeroad CFR

• Canyon Aeroad CFR
• £9,749 / $10,999

Traditionally, Canyon has been seen as a good-value option (thanks largely to its direct-sales model) and its top-end Aeroad CFR continues to be one of the more affordable Tour de France bikes. 

We've quoted the price for the flashy team replica Tensor spec and colour scheme, as ridden to Paris-Roubaix victory by Mathieu van der Poel, which gets the team's Dura-Ace wheelset upgrade alongside the full Dura-Ace groupset.

18. Movistar Team's Canyon Aeroad CFR

• Canyon Aeroad CFR
• £9,749 / $9,999

It’s not only Alpecin on the Aeroad CFR. Movistar uses the same bike, albeit with a SRAM Red AXS groupset and Zipp wheels (compared to Alpecin-Deceuninck's Shimano-heavy specification). 

It's not a spec that's available in the US, where the Zipp wheels are subbed out for DT Swiss' top-spec ARC 1100 Dicut, but comes in at the same price as the Dura-Ace spec in the UK.

17. Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale's Van Rysel RCR-F

• Van Rysel RCR-F
• £10,000 / $13,420*

2024 was all about the lightweight all-rounder RCR Pro. Although that bike is still available to the team, this season the riders are mainly on the more aero RCR-F, at least until the race hits the mountains.

The RCR-F's chunkier tube profiles are claimed to save 13 watts versus the RCR Pro at 45kph, with the frame also stiffer, although at the expense of a little extra weight – Decathlon says around 7.5kg versus 6.9kg for the RCR Pro.

The team also uses Swiss Side wheels and Look Keo Ceramic Blade pedals. The RCR-F is not yet available to US purchasers, although the RCR Pro is listed on Decathlon's US site.

16. Lotto's Orbea Orca Aero

• Orbea Orca Aero
• £10,999 / $11,599

The Orbea Orca Aero of the Lotto team is one of a number that uses FSA’s Power Box power meter, with internals from Power2Max.

Wheels and finishing kit are supplied by Orbea's components sister brand Oquo. The wheels are the latest Oquo LTD range, which features a new lightweight hubset, as well as Oquo's own rim profiles. They're available in 35mm, 57mm and 80mm depths.

15. Israel-Premier Tech's Factor Ostro VAM

• Factor Ostro VAM
• £11,499 / $11,199

Another bike at the £11,499 mark is the Factor Ostro VAM, although this is a bike that's cheaper when bought in the US. 

The Ostro VAM is built up with Black Inc components (Factor's in-house brand), with the bike's aerodynamics tuned for the 48|58 wheelset, although the team uses a range of wheel depths depending on the stage.

Jake Stewart has been riding a striking new Factor aero road bike since the Criterium du Dauphine last month, but as things stand we don't know how much that bike will cost.

14. Team Jayco-AlUla's Giant Propel Advanced SL

• Giant Propel Advanced SL 0
• £11,999 / $12,750

Another bike that sneaks in under £12,000 is the impressively lightweight Giant Propel Advanced SL of Team Jayco-AlUla.

It's the only bike that, in Advanced SL guise, includes a seatmast rather than a separate seatpost. This is aimed at keeping the weight down and the stiffness up on this top-spec frameset, one of three carbon grades that Giant offers for the Propel.

There's a new purple and white colour scheme this year, but it's still a bike that stands out, not least for the enormous logos from Giant and Cadex (Giant's performance product brand).

Team bikes are specced with Cadex wheels and the brand's new aero tyres, which we first spotted during the 2025 Spring Classics.

13. Groupama-FDJ's Wilier Filante SLR

• Wilier Filante SLR
• £11,500 / $14,600

Groupama-FDJ has the Wilier Filante SLR aero bike for flatter stages, but its climbing stars – including David Gaudu and Rudy Molard – may switch to the Wilier Verticale SLR in the mountains, saving themselves a few grams.

They're another team decked out in Dura-Ace, although this year with Miche wheels in place of last year's Dura-Ace wheelsets.

12. Lidl-Trek's Trek Madone SLR 9 AXS Gen 8

• Trek Madone SLR 9 AXS Gen 8
• £10,500 / $14,849.99

We reckon that Lidl-Trek's Trek Madone SLR 9 has dropped in price a little this year, down to £10,500 in the UK. If you're in the States, though, the bike the team rides will cost you $14,849.99, although you can bump that up to $17,000 or more by choosing one of Trek's Project One custom paint schemes.

Project One options, such as factory pick-up and completely individual colours, will add even more dollars to the price tag, so if you want to look like Mads Pedersen be prepared to pay for it.

At least the team only has one bike to choose from now the Gen 8 Madone has fused lightweight and aero.

11. Arkéa-B&B Hotels' Bianchi Oltre RC

• Bianchi Oltre RC
• £11,649 / $14,500

The space around the £12,000 price point is pretty busy this year and seems to be a sweet spot for pro-level bikes.

The Arkéa-B&B Hotels team has its £11,649 Bianchi Oltre RC aero bikes decked out in full Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 kit, with Vision wheels.

The angular design divided opinion at launch, with some seeing the sharp shapes as purposeful. Others lamented the loss of Bianchi’s more traditional approach to design.

10. Soudal Quick-Step's Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8

• Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
• £12,000 / $12,999

The £12,000 mark also sees our first Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8, for Soudal Quick-Step.

Remco Evenepoel's team uses a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset with Roval wheels and Specialized tyres. This year, we've seen team sprinter, Tim Merlier, win two stages using Specialized Turbo RapidAir TLR tyres, while Evenepoel is using unreleased Turbo Cotton TLR tyres.

The team uses Roval’s latest Rapide CLX III wheels, which aren’t currently included on the commercially available standard S-Works SL8 (the stock bike comes with the old, CLX II version of the wheels instead). That will likely bump the price up, because these wheels are £3,500 on their own.

You won't get charged extra for Evenepoel's gold paintjob, though, because it's not an available option.

9. Uno-X Mobility's Ridley Noah Fast

• Ridley Noah Fast 3.0
• £12,014 / $16,149.59*

Uno-X Mobility's Dare bike was the cheapest in the peloton in 2024, but they've now swapped to the Ridley Noah Fast, bumping the price up a fair bit.

They've kept the DT Swiss wheels though, although on the full-bike specs on its site Ridley offers the ARC 1400 rather than the flashier ARC 1100 wheels, which run on its top-spec 180 hubs.

The team also gets a special paintjob, CeramicSpeed OSPW RS Alpha derailleur pulleys and an FSA Powerbox power meter, which all adds to the bill.

8. Team Visma-Lease a Bike's Cérvelo S5

• Cervélo S5
• £12,500 / $13,999

Visma-Lease a Bike’s star-studded squad is mainly using the Cervélo S5 for the Tour, and if you want one of these, it’ll cost you a cool £12,500. 

This is another bike fitted with a SRAM Red AXS groupset, while Cervélo’s sibling company, Reserve, provides the wheels. The team is on Speedplay pedals, which will bump the price up too.

7. EF Education-EasyPost's Cannondale SuperSix Lab71 Team

• Cannondale SuperSix Lab71 Team
• £12,500 / $14,999

One of the only exact team replicas you can buy, right down to the FSA PowerBox power meter and Vision Metron 60 wheels, is Cannondale’s SuperSix Evo Lab71 Team bike used by EF Education-EasyPost. 

The £12,500 / $14,999 build also has a Dura-Ace groupset and Cannondale's MomoDesign one-piece cockpit. It’s up to you, however, to add the WorldTour watts. You'll probably need them to hack the pink and white colour scheme.

6. Ineos-Grenadiers' Pinarello Dogma F

• Pinarello Dogma F
• £12,600 / $14,500

If you have £100 more, you could buy Ineos-Grenadiers’ Pinarello Dogma F. Shimano is a major sponsor and listed as supplying its Dura-Ace groupset, pedals and wheels.

Look closely, though, and you'll often see wavy, non-Shimano rims, not only on the team's time trial bikes, but often on road stages too. They come from Princeton CarbonWorks, which isn't listed as a partner brand, but still has an oversize presence in the team's setup.

Pinarello specs Princeton's wheels on its retail bikes, so you won't have to pay for an upgrade unless you choose the £1,000 Tactic Racing hubs also seen on some team bikes.

5. Team TotalEnergies' ENVE Melee

• Enve Melee 
• £12,600 / $12,000

ENVE provides Team TotalEnergies with its Melee frame, SES cockpit and SES wheels. All in, the build costs a cool £12,600 (with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset, of course).

This bike is cheaper in the US, largely because ENVE is an American brand. If you’re over the pond, it’s a ‘mere’ $12,000.

4. Cofidis' Look 795 Blade RS

• Look 795 Blade RS
• £13,490 / $14,899

The Mondrian paint scheme of Cofidis' Look 795 Blade RS has had an upgrade this year, with a platinum white background rather than black. So too has its groupset, which is now 13-speed with the launch of Super Record 13. In fact, the bike is an all-Campagnolo affair, with Bora Ultra WTO wheels

That swap from the 12-speed wireless Super Record to the new 13-speed should have shaved a chunk of weight off the bike. But the team's power meter will bump up the price over the standard spec on Look's site.

3. Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe's Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8

• Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
• £13,499 / $15,999.99

Like Soudal Quick-Step, Red Bull–Bora-hansgrohe has fancy new Roval Rapide CLX III wheels, but Roglič and his teammates use SRAM’s Red AXS groupset.

Thanks to a snazzy, limited-edition paintjob, the team bike commands a hefty premium over a 'standard' S-Works Tarmac SL8.

If you want one of the 500 bikes available, though, that could be a price worth paying.

2. Tudor Pro Cycling's BMC Teammachine R 01

• BMC Teammachine R 01
• £14,000 / $13,649

Runner-up for the most pricey bike in the peloton is the Tudor Pro Cycling team's BMC Teammachine. It's actually got two Teammachines to choose from, the aero Teammachine R 01 and the very slightly less spendy, but lighter Teammachine SLR 01.

You can go even more expensive with the Mpc. (for Masterpiece) hand-built-in-Switzerland frameset, which is 130g lighter than the standard version. This weight saving doesn't come cheap, though, with the Teammachine R Mpc. frameset alone is priced at $9,000.

1. UAE Team Emirates XRG's Colnago V5Rs

• Colnago V5Rs
• £14,499 / $16,569

For our winner, we exceed £14,000, thanks to a £500 uplift in the frameset price, with the replacement of the V4Rs with the V5Rs.

UAE Team Emirates XRG's Colnago V5Rs bikes are finished with ENVE SES 4.5 Pro wheels, Carbon-Ti chainrings, Continental GP5000 S TR tyres and ENVE cockpits. If you're Pogačar, you get your personal logo on your chainrings and bottom bracket, plus a custom, world champion's paintjob.

And consider the cost of all the bikes UAE Team Emirates XRG will take to the Tour – teams are made up of eight riders, they all have a race bike and two spares for the following team cars, plus the mechanics' truck will likely house a fourth bike for each rider to cover breakages. And that's not including time trial bikes, wheels, parts and so on.

That equates to more than half a million dollars' worth of bikes for the team. Professional cycling is an expensive business, but that’s a huge sum. 

If money was no object, however, which would you have?