Despite the slightly shorter time trial distance, with an opening 13.2km TT in Copenhagen, time trial tech<\/a> is going to be at the forefront of the racing as the GC contenders look to put a few seconds into their rivals and the time trial specialists aim to wear the first yellow jersey.<\/p>\n This year, 176 riders across 22 teams will take to the starting gate by Copenhagen\u2019s \u00d8rstedsparken. Throughout the Tour, they\u2019ll be riding the most advanced bikes available, kitted out with the best tech.<\/p>\n Read on for a complete list of the bikes in this year\u2019s Tour de France, along with the kit they\u2019re fitted with, and our pick of some of the new bikes and tech to keep an eye out for at the 2022 race.<\/p>\n The 2022 Tour de France peloton is made up of 22 teams. The 18 WorldTour<\/a> squads receive an automatic invitation to compete, while four second-tier Pro Continental teams get a wildcard invitation. Between them, 17 bike brands are represented, with two brands each having three teams lining up on their bikes at this year\u2019s Tour: Specialized and Canyon.<\/p>\n There\u2019s the usual assortment of prestigious, top-drawer bike brands in the 2022 line-up, although a couple have disappeared, most notably Bianchi, which had its first race win back in 1899 and whose bikes were ridden by Fausto Coppi, Felice Gimondi and Marco Pantani, as well as a who\u2019s who of other top-drawer racers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read on for more details of each team\u2019s bikes, wheels and other kit.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> The Tour de France is a key showroom for brands to officially launch their new bikes. Although many have been spotted in races earlier in the season, it\u2019s only now that we get full technical details.<\/p>\n The latest Trek Madone SLR<\/a> has now officially been launched, although we spotted its split seat tube design and radical shape around the seat tube-top tube junction a while ago at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9.<\/p>\n Trek says that the new design is \u201c60 seconds faster per hour\u201d than the bike it replaces and that it\u2019s as compliant, despite losing the IsoSpeed decoupler. It\u2019s claimed to be a not-insubstantial 300g lighter too.<\/p>\n Also new out of the blocks is a new Scott Foil RC<\/a>. The oldest aero bike not to have had a substantial revamp, the current Foil was launched back in 2016. It gained disc brakes<\/a> in 2017 and has been tweaked since, but the fact the basic design hasn\u2019t changed is a testament to the old Foil\u2019s aero credentials and ride quality.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Another important new bike \u2013 particularly since it\u2019s available to be ridden by hot favourite for the race overall Tadej Poga\u010dar \u2013 is the Colnago Prototipo<\/a>. Colnago hasn\u2019t yet released the new bike, but it\u2019s built a series of \u2013 as the name says \u2013 prototypes to test the carbon lay-up in the monocoque design.<\/p>\n Yet another new bike yet to be officially launched is a next generation of the Giant Propel<\/a> aero bike, likely to see action under Team BikeExchange-Jayco.<\/p>\n The new Pinarello Bolide<\/a> time trial bike is likely to see serious action before any of the above. Again, it\u2019s a bike that we spotted pre-launch, being ridden in the final stage time trial at the Tour de Suisse by overall winner Geraint Thomas<\/a>. Frame profiles closely replicate those of the Dogma F road bike. It\u2019s also switched from rim to disc brakes.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also the new Cannondale SuperSlice<\/a> TT bike, which will stand out in Stage One not least because of its in-your-face paintjob, matching EF Education-EasyPost\u2019s Tour special Palace Skateboards collab<\/a> Rapha kit. The SuperSlice has been around since last year\u2019s Tour, but now looks set for its official launch.<\/p>\n With Stage One a time trial<\/a> rather than a road stage this year, time trial tech will be at the fore.<\/p>\n With a short course and super-fast speeds, small tech mods can add to the razor-thin margins.<\/p>\n As well as new time trial bikes \u2013 which tend to be the unloved children of bike brands, despite their significance to the overall race, due to their low volumes \u2013 other go-faster kit is likely to be to the fore. Look out, for example, for Ineos-Grenadiers\u2019 3D printed titanium bars<\/a>, custom-made to match each rider\u2019s forearms.<\/p>\n The quest for the notorious marginal gains gets ever more marginal, with tweaks to ever more intricate parts.<\/p>\n A case in point is the CeramicSpeed OSPW Aero<\/a> jockey, which CeramicSpeed says will save 2.5 seconds over a 25km time trial. That\u2019ll add up to roughly 1.25 seconds on the opening-stage TT and 4 seconds on the Stage 20 TT.<\/p>\n OSPW Aero jockey wheels appeared on road bikes<\/a> too at the Giro d\u2019Italia, so expect to see their unmissable profile on road bikes at the Tour too.<\/p>\n The other go-faster TT trend is the use of lenticular disc rear wheels. Zipp has had the Super9 lenticular disc wheel in its inventory for years, but other brands including Corima, used by Astana-Qazaqstan and Cofidis, have followed suit.<\/p>\n Expect the usual swap-outs to non-sponsor wheels<\/a> from the likes of Ineos Grenadiers too, with Princeton CarbonWorks that team\u2019s preferred time trial wheels.<\/p>\n With the latest Shimano Dura-Ace finally adding the 12th sprocket in the last year, all teams are now on 12-speed electronic groupsets<\/a>.<\/p>\n As usual, Shimano dominates the groupset line-up, but SRAM has two teams riding with its SRAM Red eTap AXS groupset<\/a>, Movistar and Trek-Segafredo.<\/p>\n The pros use SRAM\u2019s larger pro-oriented power meter<\/a> chainsets, which head up to a 56\/43-tooth combo rather than the smaller units normally specced on consumer bikes, for their potentially lower frictional loss.<\/p>\n Campagnolo supplies three teams (AG2R Citroen, Cofidis and UAE Team Emirates), one down on last year with Lotto-Soudal having defected to Shimano. The last of these is particularly significant because it\u2019s allowed Campag to rack up the last two Tour wins on its Super Record EPS groupset.<\/p>\n Tubeless wheelsets and tyres are gradually taking over in the pro peloton \u2013 doubtless a relief to the team mechanics, who won\u2019t be spending their evenings glueing tubular tyres<\/a>\u00a0to rims ahead of the next stage.<\/p>\n Team Bahrain-Merida, for example, has now switched entirely to tubeless and Roval\u2019s latest generation two Rapide and Alpinist CLX wheels<\/a>, used by the three Specialized-sponsored teams, are now tubeless-compatible too, after its previous generation was designed to be run with inner tubes.<\/p>\n Tubeless tyres<\/a> are generally viewed as rolling faster than either tubulars or clinchers with tubes, so expect to see them much in evidence on Stage One time trial bikes \u2013 Ineos was running Continental GP5000S TR <\/a>tyres on the aforementioned Princeton CarbonWorks wheels at the Tour de Suisse, for example.<\/p>\n All 18 WorldTour teams ride the Tour de France and every one of them gets the pick of the best bikes from their sponsors\u2019 ranges. That includes all teams using 12-speed electronic groupsets on their road bikes and a choice of top-spec carbon wheels.<\/p>\n Read on for a breakdown of who\u2019s riding what. Covered at the end of the list are the four Pro Continental wildcard teams riding the Tour this year.<\/p>\nTour de France 2022 bike brands<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s new in tech?<\/h2>\n
New bike launches<\/h3>\n
![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/Trek-Madone-Norway-Tayler-Wiles-254Crop-9bbe243.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/SCOTT-Sports-Bike2023FoilRCUltimateProductImagebyMarkusGreber13-c8d029b.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/COLNAGO-prototipo-laterale-f809157.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1403834954001-69640ae.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/cannondale-palace-superslice-6-b5517c7.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Time trial tech to the fore<\/h3>\n
![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/CeramicSpeed-OSPW-AeroCERAMICSPEED-MAY22EGT05599HIGHRES2-54cb713.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>12-speed all round<\/h3>\n
![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/05\/Merida-Scultura-Team-12-9dce9b6.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Tubeless wheels and tyres in the ascendant<\/h3>\n
![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/Peter-Sagans-2021-road-cycling-world-champinonships-Specialized-Tarmac-SL7-10-67d2119.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Tour de France 2022 bikes<\/h2>\n
AG2R Citroen Team (ACT)<\/h3>\n
![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/06\/SLR01-01-a7f797f.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Astana-Qazaqstan (AST)<\/h3>\n