The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, world champion, will again be eagerly awaited throughout the season.
After an almost perfect 2024 year for Tadej Pogacar with a new coronation on the Tour de France and especially a victory on the world championships, its first title, the Slovenian begins the new season with the same ambition and still impressive objectives.
Within his UAE Emirates team, Tadej Pogacar benefits from the best tools to progress in training, notably with techniques and equipment at the cutting edge of technology. If the story around carbon monoxide to improve performance is now over, “Pogi” has a brand new tool that could annoy more than one.
Since his first race of the season, the winner of the Tour de France 2024 has had a brand new “aerodynamics” bike, a Colnago Y1R. The latter was tested for long weeks in a velodrome, with very encouraging results.
According to data obtained by the Marca newspaper, Tadej Pogacar needed 19 watts less to maintain a constant speed of 51 kilometers per hour during tests in the oval. Slovenian used specific sensors to obtain data according to the different positions he adopted on the handlebars.
This bike remains special and cannot be used everywhere, especially in very difficult steps, or during classics. But for example, during Milan San Remo, the Slovenian may well use it and be the first to win a monument thanks to this type of bicycle.
This new technology is not everyone’s task and one of the peloton runners, Larry Warbasse, cycling cycling cyclist, the formation of the Julian Alaphilippe, launched a scathing “RIP Cyclisme 1868-2024” on X Before the Pugacar’s beginnings on the UAE Tour.
However, the advantage that Tadej Pogacar can win on his opponents via this new bike, because last year and in previous years, the runner did not need this technology to win and crush the competition … On the contrary.