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Custom bikes for the classification winners of the 2017 Tour de France

Chris Froome, Michael Matthews, Warrent Barguil and Simon Yates all get unique bikes for the final stage into Paris

July 23, 2017
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The classification leaders will roll onto the Champs-Élysées for the final Stage 21 of the 2017 Tour de France on Sunday. After three weeks of racing, 103-km remain and the stage really only acts as a celebration for the classification leaders and a final opportunity for the fast men of the peloton to take a stage win.

Chris Froome wears yellow as the leader of the general classification, Michael Matthews will be clad in green as the sprint classification leader, Warren Barguil is the king of the mountains wearing the polka dots and Simon Yates is the races best young rider. Each will ride onto the Champs-Élysées on a special custom bike in celebration of the occasion.

Chris Froome’s Pinarello Dogma F10

Team Sky held the yellow jersey for all but two stages during the 2017 Tour de France. Geraint Thomas began the race with a stint in the leaders jersey after winning the Stage 1 ITT. Chris Froome then inherited it on Stage 5 only loosing it to Fabio Aru for two days before taking it back. He solidified his general classification win in the Stage 20 ITT in Marseille and will win his fourth career and third consecutive Tour de France in Paris. Froome will get a yellow bike for the occasion after riding primarily black bikes with yellow ascents in the previous stages.

Michael Matthews’s Giant TCR

After five consecutive years of seeing green bikes piloted into Paris by Peter Sagan, Michael Matthews has secured the honour in 2017. With two stage wins the Australian rider for Team Sunweb fought throughout the race to stay close in the points competition that had previously been dominated by Sagan in previous years. Peter Sagan was ejected from the race on Stage 4 and then when green jersey wearer Marcel Kittel crashed out on Stage 16, Matthews was all but guaranteed the victory in the competition that he was fighting tooth and nail to stay competitive in.

Apart from the bike it Matthews will ride on the stage, Giant also sent the team a new Propel disc also decked out in the green of the sprints leader jersey.

Warren Barguil’s Giant TCR

Warren Barguil had an impressive Tour de France winning two stages, one of which came on Bastille Day and the other on the Col d’Izoard mountain top finish. Both came while wearing the polka dot jersey. The Frenchman also secured 10th overall in the general classification. Barguil is atop a custom Giant TCR decorated with red polka dots in celebration of his achievement on the races final stage.

Giant have also given him custom helmets that will surely make him hard to miss in the peloton.

Simon Yates’s Scott Addict

Last year, Simon Yates’s brother Adam won the best young riders jersey at the Tour de France. With his seventh place overall, Simon has now done the same in 2017. The achievement comes off of a stage win at last years Vuelta a Espana. Yates will ride a white and black Scott Addict into Paris with a contrasting paint scheme as one side of the bike is primarily white while the other features more black. The fork has also gotten a new coat of paint.