{"id":680932,"date":"2026-07-08T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:23:15","slug":"torstein-traeen-receives-custom-yellow-ridley-noah-fast-for-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680932\/","title":{"rendered":"Torstein Tr\u00e6en receives custom yellow Ridley Noah Fast for the Tour de France\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

A custom-painted bike has practically become the norm for riders who win the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. And while they can be dished out in an overly eager manner \u2013 Mathieu van der Poel was equipped with a special Canyon Aeroad after winning stage 2<\/a> last year \u2013 I doubt few would object to Torstrein Tr\u00e6en\u2019s new bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ridley has set Tr\u00e6en up with a special yellow Noah Fast after the Uno-X rider took the maillot jaune from Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> on stage 4. On a stage tipped for the breakaway, Tr\u00e6en got away in a large bunch and finished close-to 8 minutes up on the Slovenian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What makes Tr\u00e6en\u2019s yellow jersey particularly remarkable is that the Norwegian was diagnosed with cancer in 2022 after an abnormal doping test revealed indicators of the disease. Tr\u00e6en underwent surgery to remove a tumour and was back to racing within months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CustomRidley founder Jochim Aerts painted the bike himself. Ridley<\/p>\n

Tr\u00e6en also started his career with Uno-X back in 2016 and, after a brief stint at Bahrain-Victorious, he returned to the squad in 2023. That was the first year Uno-X Mobility participated in the Tour de France<\/a>, and this is now the first time they hold the yellow jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So to honour the occasion, Ridley got to work and delivered a custom frame for Tr\u00e6en less than 30 hours after he became the leader of the Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as Tr\u00e6en took the yellow jersey, a Noah Fast<\/a> frameset was selected from stock and prepared for painting. After curing, clear coating, decals and final quality control, the frameset was packed for immediate transport.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Wednesday, Team Support & Equipment Coordinator Wesley Widar personally delivered the bike to Biarritz, where it arrived for the Uno-X Mobility mechanics to prepare ahead of the next stage,\u201d Ridley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CustomWith a mostly black frame, Tr\u00e6en’s Noah is slightly more subtle than other yelllow bikes we’ve seen at the Tour. Ridley<\/p>\n

The opportunity to make a special version of Noah Fast aero bike<\/a> for Tr\u00e6en does come with a plug for Ridley. The company says the quick turnaround highlights its ability to paint and build bikes in-house at its facility in Belgium.<\/p>\n

CEO Jochim Aerts says: “Ridley is still a 100% family-owned company, and almost everything we do happens here in our Belgian factory. Our in-house paint department allows us to build truly unique bikes for our customers. Moments like this show exactly what makes Ridley different. Seeing the yellow jersey on a Ridley is something special, and we wanted Torstein’s bike to reflect that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A custom-painted bike has practically become the norm for riders who win the yellow jersey at the Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}