Tadej Pogačar's race bike has become almost as famous as the Slovenian ace himself. The world champion's Tour de France machine combines one of the fastest frames in the pro peloton with a carefully selected mix of stock components and specialist aftermarket upgrades.
Add everything together and the numbers become eye-watering: a grand total of £17,289.41, if you were to source the parts yourself.
Naturally, the Colnago Y1Rs frameset and ENVE SES 4.5 Pro wheels account for a huge proportion of the cost, but it's the collection of specialist upgrades – from Carbon-Ti chainrings to special aero bottom brackets – that reveal where Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates-XRG continue to finesse their bikes to the nth degree in search of performance.
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Colnago Y1Rs frameset: £6,300
The single biggest contributor to the bike's overall cost is the Colnago Y1Rs Dark Series frameset, which retails for £6,300.
Colnago bundles the integrated Colnago CCY1 cockpit, and proprietary headset, seatpost, seat clamp and all required bolts, spacers and standard thru-axles into the frameset package.
Pogačar races the lightweight Dark Series version of the frameset with rainbow details applied, rather than the standard painted black or UAE team colour framesets available to consumers as full builds.
I’ve gone with the Dark Series frameset because this most closely resembles the bike he races.
Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset: £3,579
Shimano's Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset contributes another £3,579, making it the third most expensive item on the bike.
That price, from popular UK-based shop Sigma Sports, packages the derailleurs, the wireless shifters, hydraulic brake calipers, brake hoses, rotors, 11-34t cassette, chain and all the associated small parts needed to complete the drivetrain and braking system.
It also includes a non-power meter crankset with 170mm cranks. Pogačar uses 165mm cranks with Shimano’s power meter – but this combination isn’t (yet) readily available in a packaged groupset.
Here, my ‘buyer’s logic’ comes into play: buying the parts separately would likely cost more time, effort and money than most would be willing to put into it, while it’s also possible to buy the groupset whole, then sell the unused parts later to offset a small part of the cost.
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165mm Shimano Dura-Ace power meter crankset: £999.99
The 165mm Shimano Dura-Ace R9200-P power meter crankset, which must replace the original bundled crankset, retails for £999.99.
Shorter crank lengths have become one of professional cycling's biggest equipment trends over the past few seasons. Riders including Pogačar have moved away from traditional 170mm or 172.5mm options in favour of shorter cranks, which can improve pedalling clearance in aggressive aerodynamic positions and potentially reduce hip impingement.
The integrated dual-sided Shimano power meter also provides the performance data that underpins almost every aspect of modern racing and training.
While this is a theoretical exercise, if you were minded to build Pog’s bike to ride yourself and required 170mm (or longer) cranks, you may instead opt for a power-meter crankset from the get-go, potentially saving some cost.
ENVE SES 4.5 Pro wheelset: £4,100
The ENVE SES 4.5 Pro wheelset costs a remarkable £4,100, the second-most expensive component on the bike.
That price includes ENVE’s lightweight Innerdrive Pro hubset and tubeless valves.
The hubs include ENVE’s ceramic bearings, and the rims measure 23.5mm across internally. These also feature the minimum 0.5mm hook size mandated by the ETRTO to be considered a ‘hooked’ rim.
Together, the frameset and wheelset alone account for well over £10,00 – more than many complete high-end road bikes.
Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tyres: £210 a pair
Fitted to those wheels are Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tyres. While they can be found cheaper through retailers, the RRP is £105 each.
For a Pogačar-correct Y1Rs build, you’ll need the 28mm tyres, which are said to be the optimum pairing with the ENVE rims.
The TT TR tyre was initially intended to be a time trial tyre, but it has emerged as the dominant choice among Continental-sponsored teams. A lighter construction and low rolling resistance make it one of the fastest tubeless-ready road tyres available.
In theory, those gains come with some compromise in puncture protection and durability – but with pro riders supported by team cars, punctures can be remedied more easily.
Carbon-Ti parts: €675.21 (£575.47)
One of the more eye-catching aspects of Pogačar's bike is how many Carbon-Ti components it uses.
The headline upgrades are the 55-tooth X-CarboRing EVO outer chainring (€275) and 40-tooth X-CarboRing inner ring (€186). These feature carbon fibre bodies bonded to aluminium outer teeth, with Carbon-Ti claiming these chainrings deliver lower weight while maintaining the stiffness and shift quality demanded by WorldTour racing.
Happily, if you can’t turn gears as big as this, Carbon-Ti makes smaller versions for mere mortals.
Pogačar's bike also features Carbon-Ti jockey wheel bolts, bottle cage bolts, front and rear thru-axles and a universal derailleur hanger.
Individually, these components don't cost a great deal, but still account for €214.21 of additional cost over the standard components supplied with the frameset and groupset.
Notably, it leaves the standard Shimano chainrings and the swapped-out cranks spare, along with the smaller parts.
Bikone Road Ceramic Aero bottom bracket: €346.12 (£294.99)
Another specialist component is the Bikone Road Ceramic Aero bottom bracket.
Retailing at the equivalent of roughly £295, this bottom bracket features smoothed cups, which are claimed to confer a small aerodynamic saving over a non-smoothed alternative. This means it must be installed using proprietary tools, but these are included in the kit.
It also uses ceramic bearings, which are claimed to offer a small improvement in friction loss.
Shimano Dura-Ace PD-R9100 SPD-SL pedals: £239.99
Pogačar uses the popular Shimano Dura-Ace PD-R9100 SPD-SL pedals, which retail for £239.99.
They may lack the visual ‘presence’ of some components on the bike, but Shimano's flagship pedals have long been popular in professional road racing thanks to their low weight, secure engagement, multiple cleat-float options and a good reliability record.
Fizik Vento Argo Adaptive R1 custom 3D-printed saddle: £499
3D-printed saddles have become more and more popular in recent years, and Pogačar’s is state of the art.
His saddle is based on a Fizik Vento Argo Adaptive R1 saddle with carbon rails. You can buy one off the shelf for £299.99, but Pogačar has a custom-made one, having used Fizik’s One-To-One programme.
This sees his pressure-point distribution mapped, and the lattice structure is then created specifically to support and cushion him where he needs it.
This, of course, is all part of Pogacar’s overall bike fit, but this is also a service available to the public. It costs £499 when applied to an R1-spec saddle with carbon rails.
Hinloopen Rocket 3D-printed mount and Wahoo Elemnt Bolt 3 computer: £430.99
Mounted in the V-shaped gap of the handlebar is a 3D-printed Hinloopen Rocket mount, costing £131.
It's an expensive computer mount by any standards, but it's designed to reduce aerodynamic drag with the CCY1 handlebar. While we spotted a 3D-printed silver mount on one of Pogacar’s spare bikes at the Grand Depart in Barcelona this year, the Hinloopen mount is the one he (and the rest of the UAE Emirates-XRG team) has used during the 2026 Tour de France.
Pogačar also uses a Wahoo Elemnt Bolt 3, priced at £299.99. This is the smallest of the bike computers Wahoo makes, but carries all the performance-related features he needs for racing.
Elite Leggero Carbon bottle cages - £59.98
Finally, Pogačar’s bike uses a pair of Elite Leggero Carbon bottle cages.
The choice is interesting given Colnago makes specific down tube and seat tube bottle cages, which integrate neatly with the frame’s tubes while fitting standard round bottles.
The Leggero Carbon bottle cages weigh only 13g apiece, though, compared to 50 and 32g respectively for Colnago’s visibly bulkier cages.
Handily, the Colnago cages aren’t included with a Y1Rs frameset, so you wouldn’t be left with spare proprietary bottle cages – and the Elite cages are cheaper at £59.98 for the pair, compared to a whopping £114 for the Colnago two.
How I calculated the cost of Pogačar’s bike
Pricing a professional race bike is rarely straightforward because teams frequently use prototype parts or custom components. Fortunately, Pogačar's 2026 Tour de France Colnago Y1Rs bike is built (almost) entirely from products that are readily available to buy.
I sourced prices from manufacturers' websites wherever possible, supplementing them with recommended retail prices where required, and applied a degree of ‘buyer’s logic’ to a few of the components.
For example, the Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset that forms the majority of Pogačar’s drivetrain is rarely bought in individual parts, even though this is how Shimano officially sells them. In practice, retailers bundle parts to make a ‘whole’ groupset, which results in a calculated recommended retail price.
Given the practicalities involved, it’s likely customers would opt for the bundled components, and then swap out the specific components from there.
Of course, while I’ve used recommended retail prices, it’s possible to find certain components cheaper through retailers. It’s also worth noting that I’ve not accounted for the labour costs of assembling the bike, sundries such as assembly paste or grease, and delivery costs.
In some instances – mainly through team suppliers Carbon-Ti and Bikone, which are Italian and Spanish respectively, prices are set in Euros. I converted these prices to British Pounds at the going exchange rate before adding them to the total.
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