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<\/p>\nTour de France teams carry enough bikes, tires, and wheels to buy a 5-bed luxury home \u2013 and that’s only the start of their multi-million investment.<\/p>\n
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Cofidis will take more than 20 of the recently launched version of the Look 795 road bike on Tour. (Photo: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Updated July 3, 2026 07:36AM<\/p>\n
Teams transport enough tech around the Tour de France<\/a> to buy you a luxury mansion.<\/p>\n The contents of a team\u2019s fleet of bikes, wheels, and tires at the Tour de France is worth $1 million USD, minimum.<\/p>\n According to Own Luxury Homes<\/a>, that\u2019s enough to buy you a 5-bedroom luxury home in a \u201cmid-tier market\u201d like Dallas or Nashville, or a two-bedroom condo in L.A. or New York City.<\/p>\n If real estate isn\u2019t your thing, you could buy around 50,000 x 14-inch pizzas from Pizza Hut, instead.<\/p>\n Team Cofidis<\/a> gave us a metaphorical peek inside its Tour de France packing list this week.<\/p>\n The team released this breakdown<\/a> of the insane volume of equipment, nutrition, and kit it will carry around for the next 23 days.<\/p>\n Highlights include 40 Look bikes, 1,600 energy bars and gels, 40 helmets, and around 800 pieces of fruit.<\/p>\n It provides a unique insight into the wild level of sponsor resource and team investment that\u2019s poured into the biggest race in the world, even from a minnow team like Cofidis.<\/p>\n Super teams like UAE Emirates-XRG and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe boast budgets three times over that of the struggling French team. Their kit hauls will reflect their seismic bank balance.<\/p>\n Breaking down the basics of a Tour de France tech truck The breakdown of bikes and components that Cofidis packs into its tech truck is perhaps the most fascinating element of its press release.<\/p>\n The recently relegated French crew will take 40 Look bicycles, 80 wheelsets, 100 spare tires, and 8 spare frames on the Tour.<\/p>\n Per some back-of-a-napkin math, that\u2019s worth more than $1m.<\/p>\n The bicycles alone are worth more than $600k.<\/p>\n Trusty Own Luxury Homes<\/a> tells me that\u2019s enough for a \u201csolid 3-bedroom residence in a good school district\u201d in areas like Charlotte or Nashville.<\/p>\n No wonder pro cycling is looking at new tracking systems.<\/a><\/p>\n Stacks of super bikes with whopper resale value are left locked into team trucks in the overnight hotel car parks of Europe.<\/p>\n In fact, Cofidis last year became the latest of many teams to fall victim to a multi-thousand-dollar theft<\/a> at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n Costing the Cofidis tech truck Of Cofidis\u2019 40 bikes, we understand 24 (3 per rider) will be the freshly launched<\/a> Look 795 Blade RS3, which retails at ~$15k a pop. The remaining 16 (2 per rider) will be the Look 796 Monoblade time trial bike.<\/p>\n And the bikes and wheelsets are only the big-ticket items inside a team\u2019s equipment vehicle.<\/p>\n
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Thieves stole around $150k of bikes from Cofidis last year at the Tour de France. It was later recovered. (Photo: SAMEER AL-DOUMY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
\nItem (per team statement)Brand \/ ModelApproximate value (USD)40 road bikes (Likely 3 x road bike, 2 x TT bike per rider)Look 795 Blade RS, Look 796 Monoblade$632k80 Spare wheelsetsCampagnolo Bora$320k100 spare tiresVittoria$10k8 spare frames (Likely all road bike)Look 795 Blade RS$48k20 litres of tubeless sealantWho knows?$0.7kTOTAL:$1 million<\/p>\n
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Visma-Lease a Bike is one of many teams that also takes air con units and dehumidifiers for hotel rooms at the Tour de France. (Photo: Gruber Images)<\/p>\n