{"id":709932,"date":"2026-07-25T03:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:47:16","slug":"watch-our-shimano-neutral-service-bike-check-the-10-year-old-bike-still-being-used-at-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709932\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch our Shimano Neutral Service bike check: the 10-year-old bike still being used at the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In this video, Simon von Bromley explains all you need to know about the blue Shimano road bikes you see at pro bike races.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We got up-close with a Shimano Neutral Service bike at this year\u2019s Tour de France<\/a> and in the video Simon uncovers what bike model it really is, why it has a dropper post and what it weighs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simon also explains why, despite its top Shimano Dura-Ace groupset<\/a>, no pro wants to ride one of these bikes, except in an emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this video, Simon von Bromley explains all you need to know about the blue Shimano road bikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709932","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\/709932","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=709932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}