{"id":465513,"date":"2026-02-10T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:12:07","slug":"the-racing-bike-of-the-best-cyclist-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465513\/","title":{"rendered":"the racing bike of the best cyclist in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MotoGP rider Aleix Espargar\u00f3 has added one of the most iconic bicycles of recent cycling to his collection: the Colnago Y1Rs with which Tadej Poga?ar won the Tour de France 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Espargar\u00f3 himself made it public through his social media, where he shared his latest acquisition accompanied by a very clear message: \u201cHappy to add the competition bike of the best cyclist in history to my collection\u201d. In the same post, the Catalan rider directly thanks Poga?ar for his help in acquiring it, although he does not specify whether it is a personal gift or a formal purchase.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Aleix Espargar\u00f3 acquires Tadej Poga\u010dar's Colnago Y1Rs: \" the=\"\" racing=\"\" bike=\"\" of=\"\" best=\"\" cyclist=\"\" in=\"\" history=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1440\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The bike in question is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.brujulabike.com\/pogacar-debuted-a-new-colnago-y1rs-lighter-than-ever-its-weight-is-at-the-limit-of-the-regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a very special Colnago Y1Rs, with a visible carbon frame<\/a>, without paint, an exclusive configuration that the Italian brand developed specifically for Poga?ar during the 2025 Tour. It is a lightweight version, designed to maximize performance in high mountains and key stages, and a version that never became part of the brand&#8217;s commercial catalog.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement has generated special interest because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.brujulabike.com\/do-you-want-the-bike-with-which-pogacar-dominated-in-2025-the-original-colnago-y1rs-from-the-tour-france-is-being-auctioned-and-is-already-going-for-over-eur30000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">just a few weeks ago, another identical unit was auctioned and reached a figure close to 160,000 euros.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond his role as a rider, Aleix Espargar\u00f3 has considered himself a cyclist for years and lives as such, even before he made his professional cycling debut last year with the Lidl-Trek team. Although this season he has decided to refocus exclusively on his racing career on the bike with Honda.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, his interest in historical cycling is also reflected in his private collection, which already includes iconic bicycles such as the Trek used by Lance Armstrong and the Bianchi of Marco Pantani in the 2000 Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Aleix Espargar\u00f3 acquires Tadej Poga\u010dar's Colnago Y1Rs: \" the=\"\" racing=\"\" bike=\"\" of=\"\" best=\"\" cyclist=\"\" in=\"\" history=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>With this addition, Aleix Espargar\u00f3 expands a very personal collection of bicycles that have marked an era and are directly linked to great names and key moments in professional cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MotoGP rider Aleix Espargar\u00f3 has added one of the most iconic bicycles of recent cycling to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-465513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}