Norwegian team Uno-X Mobility was a wildcard entry in the 2025 Tour de France, but scored its first Tour victory with Jonas Abrahamsen winning a two-up sprint in Toulouse from Jayco-AlUla’s Mauro Schmid on stage 11 of the Tour.
The 2025 Tour de France is team leader Tobias Johannessen’s third appearance, also having raced for Uno-X in the 2023 and 2024 Tours. At 25, he has spent his entire road career with the Norwegian team, but also competes in cyclocross and mountain biking.
Johannessen came in a creditable fourth on stage 12, the first mountain stage of the 2025 Tour, although riding the Falcn RS, which Ridley bills as its lightweight/aero package. We weighed the Falcn RS at 7.4kg when we reviewed it in Ultegra spec.
Ahead of a mostly flat start to this year's Tour in Lille, though, Johannessen and his teammates were all in on Ridley's hyper-aggressive aero road bike – the third-generation Noah Fast.
Said to be the fastest bike the Belgian brand has made, it takes full advantage of the latest UCI technical regulations and makes few concessions to weight.
The new Ridley Noah Fast
Uno-X Mobility swapped from Norwegian bike brand Dare to Ridley this year, with the Ridley Noah Fast 3.0 its road bike of choice.
It’s a classic aero bike, although marked out by its distinctive, very deep head tube. Ridley says it has gone as deep as permitted under the UCI’s relaxed 8:1 tube profile rules and that the new bike is 8.5 watts more aero than its predecessor at 50kph.
It has also adjusted the geometry of the third-generation bike, lowering the bottom bracket to compensate for modern, wider tyres and steepening the seat tube to 75.5 degrees (on a size medium) for a more forward ride position.
While many pro bikes are flirting with the UCI’s 6.8kg weight limit, including Tadej Pogačar’s Colnago V5Rs at 6.765kg, and even Jonas Vingegaard’s Cervélo S5 aero bike at 7.385kg, Johannessen’s bike is surprisingly weighty.
We weighed it at 8.20kg with pedals and bottle cages, but without a bike computer, reflecting the chunky aero tube profiles and deep-section rims.
As noted, though, Johannessen has the lighter Ridley Falcn RS for hilly and mountainous races, so we expect to see that bike called into action during the second half of this year's Tour.
Mixed-spec drivetrain
The bike’s drivetrain is based on Shimano Dura-Acee Di2 R9200, which supplies the shifters, derailleurs, cassette, pedals and brakes.
Uno-X Mobility riders have the OSPW RS Alpha rear derailleur cage system from CeramicSpeed in place of the standard Dura-Ace version. This is claimed to lower drivetrain friction through the use of oversized pulley wheels and ceramic bearings.
Uno-X Mobility also subs out the crankset for an FSA PowerBox K-Force Team Edition power meter with Power2Max instrumentation.
While many pros went extra-large with their chainrings for the flat opening stages, Johannessen has stuck with a more standard 54/40t setup, the largest combination FSA provides.
Long and narrow cockpit
The Noah Fast comes with its own Nimbus Aero cockpit, developed by Ridley with Deda. Regardless of stem length, the Noah Fast is specced with a bar that's 360mm wide at the levers, although the drops flare to 400mm.
On Johannssen’s bike, that’s paired with a 135mm effective stem length for a position that’s long and low, given his 179cm height.
As is typical for pros, the levers are turned in as far as permitted by the UCI, a geometry promoted by the bar shape, resulting in a narrow, 260mm width between the inside of the hoods.
Older-model DT Swiss wheels
Uno-X’s wheels are supplied by DT Swiss. Johannessen is riding the ARC 1100 Dicut wheels in 62mm depth. They’re the older model with a 20mm internal rim width and a 'VU-shaped' profile, rather than DT Swiss’ latest third-generation ARC wheelset, which has a new 22mm rim width and comes in a 65mm depth, as well as 55 and 85mm.
The updated ARC 1100 Dicut is also lighter, with 158g cut from the older wheelset’s 1,669g claimed weight. The new wheelset has reverted to a more angular profile that DT Swiss says offers better aerodynamics and stability when used with wider tyres.
According to the team, limited availability of the latest DT Swiss wheelsets means the riders only get them for race days.
Even former world champion, Julian Alaphilippe, is in the same boat at this year's Tour, though – his new BMC Teammachine SLR 01 was also specced with the previous-generation DT Swiss wheels when we saw it prior to the race start in Lille.
Johannessen pairs the wheels with Continental tyres. At the rear, there’s a 30c Grand Prix 5000 S TR, which we measured at 30.87mm wide.
His Continental Aero 111 tyre was developed in a collaboration between Conti, DT Swiss and Swiss Side and is claimed to save up to 18 watts over a GP 5000 S TR at high yaw angles, because it's claimed to help the airflow stay attached to the rim for longer.
Its nominal width is 29c, but it comes out a little narrower at 28.74mm on the DT Swiss rims.
Classic saddle
While many riders at the Tour have switched to 3D-printed saddles, Johannessen sticks to a more classic design with a wide cutout. The Prologo Scratch M5 PAS CPC is a longer saddle, at 250mm.
It benefits from the brand’s CPC tech, which places areas of small rubber tubes on the saddle top. These are designed to reduce slipping between the saddle and the rider’s shorts and are also claimed to help absorb vibrations.
With the top-spec carbon/Kevlar/aluminium Nack rails on Johannessen’s bike, the saddle is claimed by Prologo to weigh 146g.
Finally, Johannessen has classic Tacx Ciro carbon bottle cages. Tacx is now owned by Garmin, which supplies Uno-X Mobility’s cycling computers.
Specs | Tobias Johannessen’s Ridley Noah Fast for the 2025 Tour de France
- Frameset: Ridley Noah Fast 3.0
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 with 11-30t cassette, CeramicSpeed OSPW RS Alpha system
- Wheelset: DT Swiss ARC 1100 Dicut 62
- Power meter: FSA PowerBox Team Edition, 54/40t
- Tyres: 29c Continental Aero 111 front, 30c Continental Grand Prix 5000 S TR rear
- Handlebar: Deda/Ridley Nimbus Aero
- Seatpost: Noah Fast carbon
- Saddle: Prologo Scratch M5 PAS CPC Nack
- Bottle cages: Tacx Ciro carbon
- Pedals: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Weight: 8.20kg
