Is this the bike on which Pogačar will take the 2026 Tour de France’s first yellow jersey?

When Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates-XRG take to the Tour de France start line in Barcelona on Saturday, they’ll be riding Colnago’s brand new TT2 time trial bike. 

The Colnago TT2 has been designed specifically around the needs of riders on modern grand tour time trial courses.

It has a frameset weight that’s 550g less than Colnago’s TT1, which the team had used previously, more agile handling and greater crosswind stability, while bettering the TT1’s aerodynamic performance, says Colnago.

We weighed Pogačar‘s bike at 8.14kg, maybe a little heavier than expected, given Colnago’s claim that the TT2 can be built to the UCI’s 6.8kg weight limit. 

UAE Team Emirates-XRG swaps out many standard components on both its road and time trial bikes for lighter-weight parts.

The Dura-Ace rear derailleur is anchored to a Carbon-Ti Universal Derailleur Hanger and even the standard jockey wheel bolts and the bolts between his extensions for his computer mount are swapped out for Carbon-Ti numbers.

Pogačar is also running a Carbon-Ti single carbon chainring on his Dura-Ace crankset, which we reckon is a 64-tooth. His 160mm crank length follows the trend for shorter cranks and there’s a K-Edge chain catcher, again with Carbon-Ti branding.

Along with his teammates, Pogačar has a 77g aero BSA bottom bracket specifically developed by Spanish brand Bikone for UAE Team Emirates, while he and Isaac del Toro will use the same bottom bracket on their road bikes for the Tour.

Pogacar‘s bike is fitted with a deep-section ENVE SES 100 Pro front wheel and ENVE SES Disc Pro rear wheel. They roll on ENVE’s premium silver Innerdrive Pro hubs with ceramic bearings. ENVE claims an 815g weight for the front wheel and 1,030g for the rear.

Both are equipped with Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tubeless tyres in a 28mm width. On the 22mm internal width mini-hooked rim, these measure almost exactly 28mm wide – 27.94mm at the rear and 28.20mm at the front to be precise, despite the TT2 frame’s 30mm tyre clearance.

In contrast, the 28mm nominal-width tyres on Pogačar’s Colnago Y1Rs aero road bike measure over 30mm wide on the 23.5mm internal-width SES 4.5 Pro wheels fitted to that bike.

The TT2’s base bar has been slimmed down and measures 360mm centre to centre. There’s a low-profile grip surface applied to the bar ends and the time trial extensions are ENVE-branded, although ENVE doesn’t show extensions on its site. 

They also come with the logo of team sponsor Richard Mille, which makes extremely expensive watches, including the $1,000,000 Colnago special edition, which has recently been announced. His team says Pogačar won’t wear the watch during the race ‘for personal security reasons’. It’s probably not very aero either.

Pogačar has the zero-setback TT2 seatpost fitted to his bike; there’s a 22.5mm-setback post also available.

He sits on a custom 3D-printed Fizik One-to-One Aeris Long Distance Adaptive time trial saddle, despite the Stage 1 team time trial's 19.6mm length and the Stage 16 individual time trial only stretching to 26.1km.  

Pogačar has Elite’s Kit Crono CX time trial bottle fitted. It’s probably not as aero as the Fidlock bottle developed by Colnago specifically for the TT2, which completely fills the space between the down tube and seat tube, but sponsorship commitments mean UAE Team Emirates-XRG cannot use this.