With 22 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 road race 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, though 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.
22. Uno-X Mobility's Dare VSRu
- Dare VSRu
- £8,388 / $7,499*
If you want to own a Tour de France team bike at the time of the 2024 Grand Départ, the cheapest way to do so is to buy Uno-X Mobility’s Dare VSRu.
In mainland Europe, this bike is even cheaper at €6,990. But shipping this into the UK would incur 20 per cent value added tax, significantly increasing the price.
The team’s bike is decked out with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 groupset and DT Swiss ARC 1400 wheelset. The build makes it a top-spec bike at nearly half the price of the most expensive in the peloton.
21. 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 Di2 groupsets.
Newman supplies the wheels, which have neatly hidden valves.
20. Bahrain Victorious' Merida Reacto
- Merida Reacto
- £8,500 / $10,760*
For £1 more, you can have the excellent Merida Reacto of the Bahrain Victorious WorldTour team.
This aero road bike is a little long in the tooth, although we've yet to see a new model from the Taiwainese brand at the Tour.
This is another Dura-Ace build but Vision supplies the wheels and integrated front end.
19. Alpecin-Deceuninck's Canyon Aeroad CFR
- Canyon Aeroad CFR
- £8,849 / $9,699
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.
If you measure speed by sprint pedigree, this is also one of the fastest – Jasper Philipsen is looking to defend his green jersey from last year's race, while Mathieu van der Poel is a prolific race winner.
18. Movistar's Canyon Aeroad CFR
- Canyon Aeroad CFR
- £8,849 / $9,699
It’s not just Alpecin on the Aeroad CFR. Movistar also uses the same bike, albeit with a SRAM Red AXS groupset and Zipp wheels (compared to Alpecin-Deceuninck's Shimano-heavy specification).
At the Critérium du Dauphiné, we also saw the team using an updated bike with what looks like a reprofiled front end.
17. Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale's Van Rysel RCR Pro
- Van Rysel RCR Pro
- £9,000 / $10,999
Our final bike under the £10,000 mark is the Van Rysel RCR Pro.
When whispers of this bike first started being heard, we hoped the team model would come in under £8,000 – although at £9,000, it still ranks well.
This is another Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200-equipped bike, and a few of the team's riders, such as French national champion Paul Lapeira, are sporting Carbon-Ti chainrings.
The team also uses Swiss Side wheels, and Look Keo Ceramic Blade pedals.
16. Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL's Scott Foil RC
- Scott Foil RC
- £10,499 / $9,499
Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL is one of the main Shimano-sponsored teams – it’s where we first saw the latest Shimano Dura-Ace components pop up in 2021.
The team will mostly be on the £10,499 Scott Foil RC – an aero racer that gets very close to the UCI’s minimum weight limit.
15. Cofidis' Look 795 Blade RS
- Look 795 Blade RS
- £11,499 / $11,000
Jump up a further £1,000 and you can have the Look 795 Blade RS of Cofidis.
Last year, the team ended its Tour de France winless run, which stretched back to 2008 – it was the 795 Blade RS that Victor Lafay used to hold off the chasing peloton to win Stage 2.
The build is one of the coolest in the bunch, with the Mondrian paint scheme and a host of French components, including Corima wheels.
The SRM Origin power meter costs around €1,800 which would bump up the price of the team bike over what you can buy in the shops.
14. 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, though this is a bike that is cheaper when bought in the US.
The Ostro is built up with Black Inc components (Factor's in-house brand), with the team using a range of wheel depths depending on the stage.
13. Astana Qazaqstan Team's Wilier Filante SLR
- Wilier Filante SLR
- £11,660 / $14,600
Two teams use the Wilier Filante SLR. We’ll start with the Astana bike Mark Cavendish piloted to his record-breaking 35th stage win.
The team doesn't list Shimano among it's sponsors or partners, hinting that it might buy in the brand's Dura-Ace groupset for its bikes. That said, this enables the team to be flexible in its use of peripheral kit, such SLF Motion's oversized pulley wheel system.
The snazzy build is finished with Vision Metron 60 SL Disc wheels and Vittoria Corsa Pro tubeless tyres.
12. Groupama-FDJ's Wilier Filante SLR
- Wilier Filante SLR
- £11,660 / $14,600
Groupama-FDJ has the same bike, but David Gaudu, Stefan Küng et al get a much more Shimano-focussed build with Continental tyres.
Gaudu may ride the new Wilier Verticale SLR in the mountains. At the Critérium du Dauphiné, he paired this new bike (which was unreleased at the time) with old-school Continental Competition Pro LTD tubular tyres.
11. Arkéa-B&B Hotels' Bianchi Oltre RC
- Bianchi Oltre RC
- £11,949 / $14,500
The space around the £12,000 price point is pretty busy this year, with six teams separated by just £50.
The Arkéa-B&B Hotels team has its £11,949 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. Lotto-Dstny's Orbea Orca Aero
- Orbea Orca Aero
- £11,999 / $11,399
The Orbea Orca Aero of Lotto-Dstny is one of two bikes that just creeps in under the £12,000 mark. It is also one of a number that uses FSA’s Power Box power meter, with internals from Power2Max.
Wheels are supplied by Orbea's components arm Oquo, wrapped in Vittoria Corsa Pro TLR tyres.
9. Team Jayco-AlUla's Giant Propel Advanced SL
- Giant Propel Advanced SL
- £11,999 / $12,750
The other bike that sneaks in under £12,000 is the impressively lightweight Giant Propel Advanced SL of Team Jayco-AlUla, who will ride in a fresh new team kit for the Tour (apart from Dutch national champion Dylan Groenewegen, of course, pictured above).
The design is inspired by AlUla – the ancient oasis city located in the northwest of Saudi Arabia, but should orange and green ever be seen, without something in between? No.
8. Soudal Quick-Step's Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
- Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
- £12,000 / $14,000
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 and some riders, such as general classification hopeful, opt for tube-type clincher S-Works Turbo Cotton tyres.
The team uses Roval’s latest Rapide CLX II Team wheels which aren’t currently included on the commercially available standard S-Works SL8. That will likely bump the price up (as partly evidenced by Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's team bike to come), because these wheels are £3,000 on their own.
7. Team Visma-Lease a Bike's Cérvelo S5
- Cervélo S5
- £12,500 / $13,000
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.
It’s also another team with a new jersey, with the bumble bees swapping their normal yellow kit for a jazzy design during this year’s Tour.
6. 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 is Cannondale’s SuperSix Evo LAB71 Team bike of EF Education-EasyPost.
For some time, we're told, many of the team's riders were actually racing on SuperSix Evo Hi-Mod framesets, but that's all change by the 2024 Tour de France.
The £12,500 build uses a Dura-Ace groupset with Vision wheels and FSA power meter. It’s up to you, however, to add the WorldTour watts.
5. 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.
This is fresh to the market, with claims of improved aerodynamics and a modified carbon construction to save weight, but the team’s build is unchanged with a Shimano Dura-Ace groupset and wheels.
4. Team TotalEnergies' ENVE Melee
- Enve Melee
- £12,600 / $12,000
ENVE provides Team TotalEnergies with its Melee frame, SES cockpit and 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.
3. UAE Team Emirates' Colnago V4Rs
- Colnago V4Rs
- £13,999 / $16,069
For our podium, we step up to and exceed £14,000 – is anyone feeling breathless, yet?
UAE Team Emirates' Colnago V4Rs bikes are finished with ENVE SES wheels, Carbon-Ti chainrings, Carbon-Ti brake rotors, Continental GP5000 S TR tyres and ENVE cockpits.
So, what could be more expensive? Well, there are two left.
2. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8 LTD
- Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8 LTD
- £14,500 / $16,500
Like Soudal Quick-Step, Red Bull–Bora-Hansgrohe has fancy new Roval Rapide CLX II Team wheels to go along with its new name and kit, but Roğlič and his teammates use SRAM’s latest Red AXS groupset.
Specialized has also chosen to sell a limited run of replica bikes in the team's new colours, complete with the new wheels, making it the second-most expensive bike in our list.
So with silver accents and Red Bull motif's everywhere, this is a very shiny machine.
1. Lidl-Trek's Trek Madone SLR 9 AXS Gen 8
- Trek Madone SLR 9 AXS Gen 8
- £14,700 / $16,999
Topping the money pile is the Lidl-Trek team's new Trek Madone SLR, which costs a staggering £14,700. If you’re in the States, the bike the team rides will cost you $16,999.
In dollar prices, this is more than double the cost of Uno X’s Dare VSRu.
And consider the cost of all the bikes Lidl-Trek 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.
That equates to over 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?
