Why Are Tour De France Bikes Still So Heavy? We Have The Answer

If you read the marketing materials for any new road bike launch, you’ll always find a line telling you how incredibly light it is.

And yet, every year, when we go to the Tour de France – the biggest and most important bike race of the year – we very rarely see bikes that hit pro cycling’s minimum bike weight of 6.8kg.

So what’s going on? In this video, Simon reveals the average weight of a pro bike in 2026 and why, almost three decades after road cycling’s minimum bike weight rule was imposed, so many brands still can’t make a bike that hits that limit ready-to-ride.

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