Grand Tour season is officially over for 2026. Big sad. But while there’s still racing to be done that means it’s time for our annual totting up of the bike, groupset and wheel brands that have benefited the most from their products being ridden to victory.
Many of you will be shouting ‘but it’s the rider than wins not the bike’, and that is true, but we live in a capitalist society and cycling is sponsor-driven – as much as it would benefit for the sport for everyone to be riding the same bikes and wearing the same kit.
So which brands can you expect to be chucking about words such as ‘winningest’ and doubling down on their claims that their wheels are in fact the fastest in the WorldTour?
We’ve totted up every Grand Tour stage result to crown this year’s winners – if you want to compare it with the 2025 results, check those out here, and if you want to check out the full list of WorldTour tech to see which brands have missed out entirely, see the whole selection here.
Best bike brands, groupsets and wheels of the Monuments 2026 so far
Xavier Pereyron
Before we get into the three-weekers, here’s a smaller roundup of the results from the Monuments with just Il Lombardia to go. Specialized’s hold over women’s cycling’s biggest teams means it comes out on top here, with both FDJ United-Suez and SD Worx-Protime sweeping the women’s Monuments for Specialized and Roval while Wout van Aert stopped Tadej Pogačar completing his own sweep for Colnago and Enve. The groupsets swing in Shimano’s favour as a result of both FDJ and Pogačar’s UAE team having partnerships with the Japanese manufacturer.
Bikes
Specialized 4
Colnago 3
Cervelo 1
Groupsets
Shimano 6
SRAM 2
Wheels
Roval 4
Enve 3
Reserve 1
Best bike brands of the 2026 Grand Tours
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1. Specialized (AG Insurance Soudal, FDJ United-Suez, Red Bull-Bora-Hangrohe, SD Worx-Protime, Soudal Quick-Step), 23 stage wins, 2 overall, 3 points
Not only has Specialized’s title been defended, but it’s been extended, up from 17 stages in 2025 to 23 this year. Now that’s very much helped by sponsoring more top teams than anyone else, however all of those teams have delivered in Grand Tours, even delivering two GC wins thanks to Demi Vollering.
It’s a good start to life for the SL9.
This could be the end of an era at the top of this chart, though, with Soudal Quick-Step – and you’d assume AG Insurance Soudal with them – set to move from Specialized to Merida in 2027. It would take a big shift from Remco Evenepoel’s Red Bull team to replace stage wins from the likes of Tim Merlier and Paul Magnier on the men’s side, though it wouldn’t be surprising to see FDJ United-Suez and SD Worx-Protime sweep women’s racing again next year.
2. Colnago (UAE Team Emirates-XRG, UAE Team L’Imad), 14 stage wins, 2 overall
Colnago retains its second place from last year but only by the smallest of margins. It almost definitely would’ve been a different story had Pogačar managed to finish the Vuelta, but would he have made up the nine stages to Specialized? Probably not.
On the surface it was a much improved season for UAE Team L’Imad, with Paula Blasi winning the Vuelta and Elisa Longo Borghini reaching the Tour podium, but they actually didn’t get any Grand Tour stage wins, whereas last year Maeva Squiban took a pair of victories at the Tour.
Take away the Quick-Step wins, add in a likely full Vuelta for Pogačar, and Colnago could well be looking for the top spot in 2027.
3. Cervélo (Visma-Lease a Bike), 14 stage wins, 1 overall, 1 points
Only squeaked into third place due to one fewer GC win, Visma-Lease a Bike have been absolutely rampant in taking stages, especially Jonas Vingegaard at the Giro and the combination of Matthew Brennan and Wout van Aert at the Vuelta. Vingegaard’s maglia rosa delivered one GC, but his early Tour departure took away any opportunities for him to nick a stage late on there.
Most successful bike brands
Specialized, 23 stages, 2 overall
Colnago, 14 stages, 2 overall
Cervélo, 14 stages, 1 overall
Canyon, 6 stages, 1 overall
Trek, 6 stages, 2 points
Cannondale, Ridley, 5 stages
X-Lab, 3 stages
Bianchi, BMC, Pinarello, 2 stages
Factor, Giant, Look, Van Rysel, Wilier, 1 stage
Groupset
Xavier Pereyron
1. SRAM 46 (2 overall, 5 points)
Groupset? More like upset! Shimano’s dominance is over after many many years dominating the top level of cycling. It actually looked like it was going the other way through most of the tallying up, however a SRAM clinic at the men’s Vuelta with Visma-Lease a Bike, Movistar, Tudor and Uno-X delivered a famous victory for the American brand.
It comes after a big shift in the off-season with several more men’s teams making the shift from Shimano to SRAM, including Uno-X, Decathlon CMA CGM and Pinarello Q36.5, and it’s also worth noting SRAM’s hold over the women’s peloton, dominating sprints with both Lorena Wiebes and Elisa Balsamo on their books – although Shimano still have prolific winners in FDJ United-Suez and AG Insurance Soudal.
2. Shimano 40 (4 overall, 1 points)
Shimano’s saving grace here is that it still has double the GC wins thanks to Pogačar, Vollering and Paula Blasi, but the shift to SRAM will surely be putting the pressure on to adapt. It seems like a big reason for teams to move to SRAM is its 1x drivetrain options, something that Shimano is still lacking in its top road configurations (outside of hybrid workarounds like Mathieu van der Poel using MTB parts at the Tour or Filippo Ganna’s TT setups). However with a new Dura-Ace rumoured to be round the corner, that could soon change.
All that said, with another 14 stages left in the Vuelta when Pogačar dropped out, it could be that Shimano were denied the title by a stray rock – SRAM riders won ten of those 14 on offer.
3. Campagnolo 1
That’s right, Campagnolo is finally back in the game, with its first Grand Tour stage win since returning to the WorldTour peloton at the start of 2025. It’s all thanks to Cofidis’s Bryan Coquard who finally won a stage at the Vuelta, delivering the goods for the legendary Italian brand for the first time since 2022 when it sponsored UAE Team Emirates.
With its improved wireless groupset, Super Record 13, a return to form, it’s much deserved.
Wheels
Xavier Pereyron
1. Roval (AG Insurance-Soudal, FDJ United-Suez, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, SD Worx-Protime, Soudal Quick-Step), 23 stages, 2 overall, 3 points
You’ll very quickly notice a familiar pattern in this section to the bike brands standings. Because of the close associations between bike and wheel brands, which are regular just the components arm of the same company, the top three on the wheel ranking is now a complete reflection of the bike brand podium.
For that reason there isn’t loads to add here other than it’ll be interesting to see which wheels the Quick-Step teams will be using once they move away from Specialized next season.
2. Enve (UAE Team Emirates-XRG, UAE Team L’Imad), 14 stages, 2 overall
3. Reserve (Visma-Lease a Bike), 14 stages, 1 overall, 1 points
Most successful wheels brands
The more interesting stats here are beyond the podium, with Vision’s wealth of teams with EF, Bahrain Victorious and XDS Astana bringing it to fourth overall over DT Swiss, which supplies Tudor and Uno-X Mobility.
Roval, 23 stages, 2 overall
Enve, 14 stages, 2 overall
Reserve, 14 stages, 1 overall
Vision, 10 stages
DT Swiss, 7 stages
Bontrager, 6 stages, 2 points
Zipp, 4 stages, 1 overall
Shimano, 3 stages
Black Inc, Cadex, Campagnolo, Miche, Scope, Swiss Side, 1 stage