As the Tour de France 2023 drew to a surprisingly frantic conclusion on the Champs Elysee, eventually seeing Jonas Vingegaard take a second overall victory, we’ve amalgamated all the data we can on the equipment each stage winner has used to see what we can tease out in terms of greater trends. I’m very much aware that it’s the riders, not the bikes that win stages, and that a sample size of 21 isn’t necessarily statistically significant, but this is a cycling website, not a scientific journal.
We have two years of data to call back on too, so if you want to get properly nerdy you can see who won with what in 2022 and in 2021 too. This year the Tour de France Femmes will also add a few more data points, and this will be updated after the conclusion of that too, with any contrasting trend teased out and deciphered.
