CyclistTour of Flanders bikes 2026: The new Endurace, SRAM Red XPLR and lots of 1xCobbled Classics season is tech watch season, and while Roubaix takes the biscuit though Cyclist tech editor Sam Challis has perfected the Roubaix build Flanders is a good warm-up, with teams having to blend cobble-friendly comfort features with low weight components for the steep bergs.Photographer Xavier Pereyron got stuck in in Oudenaarde to snap the pelotons bikes, and got ahead of the curve catching the womens bikes at Dwars door Vlaanderen mid-week too.Expect tyres averaging 30mm, lots of 1x cranksets and some made-for-gravel components too. Oh and the new Endurace up close before its official launch. Related Posts Pro bike: Demi Vollering's 2026 Flanders Specialized Tarmac SL8 Pro bike: Puck Pieterse's unreleased Canyon from the Tour of Flanders 2026 Pro bike: Tadej Pogaar's 2026 Ronde-winning Colnago Y1Rs The best photos from the Tour of Flanders 2026 Xavier PereyronWe kick things off with this actually very nice BH of team Burgos Burpellet BH, who set the tone with 30mm Pirelli P Zero Race RS tyres and aero chainrings.Xavier PereyronFlanders-Baloise are still flying the flag for Eddy Merckx bikes with maybe overly cautious 32mm Vittoria Corsa Pros. Whatever happened to underbiking? Romance is dead. Also remember that seat tube shape, itll be important for later.Xavier PereyronUno-X switched to SRAM over the winter and were making full use of that in Flanders, with aero 1x chainrings all over. They even used SRAMs gravel specialist Red XPLR AXS parts for the wide-range cassette and tough Direct Mount derailleur.Jonas Abrahamsens bike pictured here also has a nice WolfTooth chain catcher and the team were using Continentals Aero 111 front tyre and GP5000 S TR rear.Xavier PereyronNSN Cycling were using Continentals 30mm Tour de France special Archetype tyres, which were developed with Tadej Pogaar. If you cant beat himXavier PereyronEF Education-EasyPost also switched to SRAM this year and made the same choices as Uno-X with that single chainring and SRAM Red XPLR AXS rear derailleur and cassette. Like most of these 1x setups, this one has a 54t chainring.Xavier PereyronBack to the old school, Picnic-PostNL are sponsored by Shimano, who dont currently have a roadworthy 1x system though Pogaar did use custom chainrings to go 1x at Milan-San Remo. Which team also hasnt won a race all year? Picnic-PostNL.Interestingly theyve scribbled out the spec on their Michelin tyres.Xavier PereyronPinarello-Q36.5 were Pidcockless but they did get 12th place courtesy of Aim De Gendt. Their Pinarellos were fitted with 30mm Vittoria Corsa Pro tyres and interestingly they didnt go 1x despite being on SRAM.Xavier PereyronAnthony Turgiss TotalEnergies swapped Enve for Cube this year, so its a similar setup to Intermarchs 2025 bikes.Xavier PereyronIneos had Sam Watson and Magnus Sheffield both riding well in the front group until they crashed out. The team are Shimano sponsored so were using full Dura-Ace groupset and had Continental GP5000 tyres on their new-for-2025 Scope wheels.Xavier PereyronWatsons British National Champions bike is easy to spot.Xavier PereyronUnibet Rose Rockets talisman Luk Kubi has an eyecatching Slovakian National Champion themed Rose bike. They were also on the SRAM 1x and Red XPLR AXS combo and were using 30mm Vittoria Corsa Pros. He changed shoes for the race, fear not.Xavier PereyronBianchi will be enjoying their return to the WorldTour with Bahrain Victorious. Matej Mohori rode his Oltre (not this one) to eighth place in Flanders. There isnt much room for wider tyres in there.Xavier PereyronSoudal-QuickSteps Specialized tyres are going under the radar with no model name. Xavier PereyronYou can spot Daan Hooles bikes a long way away with that enormous head tube. Hes 6ft 6in if youre interested.Xavier PereyronMads Pedersen had the fortune of riding a new limited edition design on his Madone, which has been put together to celebrate Treks 50th anniversary. Behind that gloss Lidl-Trek were also running SRAM 1x and XPLR AXS.Xavier PereyronLottos normal Orbea Orca Aero looks rather boring in comparison to that Madone, and their 30mm Vittoria Corsa Pros are pushing that tyre clearance very close.Xavier PereyronSRAM-sponsored team. SRAM 1x. SRAM Red XPLR AXS. 54t chainring. There is definitely a theme. 30mm Vittora Corsa Pro tyres another theme.Xavier PereyronTudor are another that didnt get the 1x memo though. They did have Matteo Trentin going well until he crashed badly.Xavier PereyronYes that is Mathieu van der Poels lower half. Yes that is the Canyon Aeroad stay tuned for the new Endurace, which he wasnt using. His all black rims indicate these are unreleased Shimano Dura-Ace wheels though.Xavier PereyronDont think there was any danger of getting lost.Xavier PereyronLightly dusted.Xavier PereyronHere is the new Endurace, ridden to third in the womens race by Puck Pieterse.Xavier PereyronThis is a good angle for comparison between this new bike and the Aeroad below.Xavier PereyronXavier PereyronAnd theres your confirmation it is an Endurace.Xavier PereyronPlease dont press start. Please dont press start the rest of the peloton, probably.Xavier PereyronPogaar has racked up quite the collection of wins on the Y1Rs. Find the full breakdown of his bike here.Xavier PereyronLotte Kopecky and her SD Worx team are also using the unlabelled Specialized tyres. This and the following pictures of womens bikes were taken at Dwars door Vlaanderen earlier in the week, but the tech wont have been changed much if at all.Xavier PereyronElisa Longo Borghini and her UAE Team ADQ teammates do frequently use the V5Rs, which is good news for the bikes developers given Pogaar only rode it for about ten minutes before the Y1Rs came along.Xavier PereyronThe only Factors left in the WorldTour belong to the Human Powered Health womens team. No Factor One for Flanders, it was Ostros all round.Xavier PereyronKathrin Schweinberger didnt ride Flanders, but her Austrian National Champs bike we spotted at Dwars door is rather fetching.Xavier PereyronThe new EnviLiv, the womens equivalent of the Giant Propel is now light enough to be a true all-round race bike for Liv-AlUla-Jayco.Xavier PereyronFor the full breakdown of Demi Vollerings Euro Champs bike click here.Xavier PereyronFor those who dont need to know when the climbs are coming and when to feed.Xavier PereyronLidl-Trek were already testing the SRAM setup earlier in the week with Loes Adegeest getting the full works.Xavier PereyronAs did Uno-Xs womens team, with Linda Zanetti on the same setup as the men including the aero front tyre.Xavier PereyronWhile Astana dont have a womens team, they do have a technical and sporting parternship with Basque team Laboral Kutxa-Euskadi, whose X-Lab bikes have this pink and white paintjob.Xavier PereyronAlong with some cool detailing on the inside of the fork.Xavier PereyronIrish rider Fiona Mangans Mayenne Monbana My Pie squad rides this bling Winspace bike, with the brands Lun Hyper wheels with carbon spokes along with Hutchinson Blackbird Racing Lab tyres.The post Tour of Flanders bikes 2026: The new Endurace, SRAM Red XPLR and lots of 1x appeared first on Cyclist.