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Tech news<\/a><\/p>\n Decathlon-CMA CGM and its star are riding what looks like an update to the RCR-R at the key Tour de France tuneup.<\/p>\n Jack Duncan<\/p>\n Editor’s Note: Podcast listeners have already been introduced but for anyone else, please welcome Escape Collective’s newest tech editor, Jack Duncan. A former pro on the Continental pro team Illuminate, he comes to us from Mike’s Bikes and has a background in everything from content creation to bike fits. For his first assignment, he’s at the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, looking for new and unreleased bikes and gear ahead of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n Paul Seixas is the top favorite for the newly titled Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, taking on a quality startlist. If successful, the 19 year-old would be the youngest winner in the race\u2019s history, knocking off Greg LeMond, who won it two weeks before his 22nd birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Come Tour de France in July, Seixas\u2019 main rivals, Tadej Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard, both absent from the Auvergne Tour, will likely again ride their respective Colnago Y1RS and Cervelo S5 aero road bikes. Meanwhile, Seixas is going a different direction, testing out a new lightweight option. <\/p>\n Van Rysel has the RCR-F aero bike<\/a>, but this seems to be the next evolution of the RCR-R, the brand’s lighter-weight frame but still with aero cues. Most of the Decathlon-CMA CGM team was riding the unreleased bike at stage 1 of what I\u2019m still calling the Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n On a hilly day with five categorized climbs and 3,000 meters of climbing, it was EF Education-EasyPost’s Alex Baudin who took the win<\/a> on a stage that featured explosive racing in the finale. Seixas’ teammate Leo Bisiaux \u2013\u00a0also aboard the new bike \u2013\u00a0was third in a small group of hopefuls 32 seconds back, while Seixas finished safely in a favorites group another 14 seconds behind. Here’s more about the new bike the Decathlon team is riding.<\/p>\n This post is for paying subscribers only Already have an account? Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n \n \ud83d\udc4dYep![\"Jack](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jack.png\")
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Side-by-side are Seixas’ spare bike (left; the unreleased model) and teammate Matthew Riccatello’s spare (right; the current model). From this view, there are a few notable updates to the front end. The head tube and fork blades are much deeper on the new model. <\/p>\n
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