The BikeRadar Podcast

George Scott and Simon von Bromley look at the key tech trends dominating this year’s Tour de France and discuss how relevant they are to everyday riders.

Should you be copying the pros? Will emulating the Tour de France peloton make you faster? Or should you leave Tadej Pogačar and co to it, and simply focus on riding your bike?

Check out all of BikeRadar’s Tour de France coverage: https://www.bikeradar.com/events/tour-de-france

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Fresh from the 2026 Tour de France Grand Départ, Simon and Ashley are back at BikeRadar HQ and keen to share everything they saw in Barcelona.

From Pogačar’s 25c tyres to Vingegaard’s 30s, the continuing prevalence of narrow bars and short cranks, and why we were shocked by how much some of this year’s key bikes weighed, we cover all the juicy tech details from the race start.

If you want to know what tech the pros are using at the biggest bike race of the year, this is the podcast for you.

 And, of course, don’t forget to check out our other videos from this year’s Tour de France after you’ve watched this.
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In this week's episode of the BikeRadar podcast, Simon is back in the studio with Warren Rossiter to look ahead to the 2026 Tour de France.

From weight weenie bikes to extreme heat hacks, these are the tech stories that we think will define the race for cycling's most important prize.

Following that, Warren and Simon address a few questions posed on a recent episode of the Nero Show podcast, about Warren's review of the new Eddy Merckx 525R.

We then move onto news in brief, where we cover a smattering of stories from Eurobike, Continental's new limited edition tyres and some good news for cheap road and gravel bikes from Shimano.
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In this week’s episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Ashley Quinlan returns with Warren Rossiter to hear why the new Merckx 525R might be the best aero road bike that Warren's ever ridden.

The duo also discuss Shimano's new Deore XT mountain bike groupset, and pose the question: could this pave the way for the return of a mechanical Shimano Ultegra groupset?

Finally, we've got a new Bianchi Specialissima (has Bianchi played it too safe?), bump-smoothing gravel tech, the pro who crashed OVER the finish line (but still won the race) and news that the Tour de France is returning to terrestrial TV in the UK.
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In this week’s packed episode of the BikeRadar podcast, Ashley Quinlan is joined by Warren Rossiter, to get to grips with the biggest news stories of the week.

First up is Megamo’s new ebike with a 1,500W peak power motor. Is it too much? Ashley and Warren discuss.

Ashley then shares the counter-trends he spotted while on the ground at the start of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (formerly known as the Critèrium du Dauphiné), before chatting about infamous UCI rules-challenger Jan Willem van Schip’s latest disqualification at the Tour de L’Oise.

And Warren shares his take on Garmin’s latest kit-tracking feature, plus the news that Pirelli has launched 55mm wide gravel tyres. How wide is too wide? Warren has a set coming to test, plus lets us in on his latest testing exploits.

Finally, we sign off wishing the best of luck to ultracyclists Lael Wilcox and Sarah Goggins on their respective record attempts, happening right now!
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