The Tour de France is about to kick off subsequent week and Rapha, EF Training & Cannondale are celebrating in one other type collaboration with Palace Skateboards. However this yr, with the launch of the 8-day Tour de France Femmes (and the largest prize payout in girls’s biking), each the women and men can be driving in Rapha X Palace Tour de Pressure switch-out equipment and custom-painted Cannondale race bikes emblazoned with the feminine gender image on high of playful graphics.
And in addition to the Rapha duplicate equipment, you may also choose up a Rapha X Palace TdF Cannondale SuperSix, too!
Rapha+Palace {custom} Tour de France, Femmes & Pressure!
c. Rapha
For the primary time in 33 years, professional girls biking will get its personal correct stage race with the 8-stage Tour de France Femme which takes on the enduring Champs-Élysée the day after the lads’s last, then finally marching east 1029km from Paris to the mountains to culminate in a summit end at La Planche des Belles Filles on the ultimate day of July.
To emphasise the significance of the ladies getting a correct French stage race, the EF males will begin 3 weeks earlier from July 1st in the identical equipment as the ladies, and the identical custom-painted bikes, with a Rapha+Palace Skateboard design with a distinguished girls’s gender image and a bunch of playful little yellow dragons.
Rapha+Palace Skateboards EF Training Tour equipment
Along with flashy bikes, Rapha is making the riders’ {custom} equipment accessible quickly too. Girls can get the Professional Crew Aero Jersey and Professional Crew Bib Shorts II within the full Rapha+Palace EF Training-Tibco-SVB pink, blue & yellow dragon design, or a extra low-key grey Professional Crew Coaching Jersey.
Males get the identical decisions in Professional Crew Aero Jersey and Professional Crew Bib Shorts II in the identical pink, blue & yellow dragon design with the males’s workforce Rapha+Palace EF Training-Easypost sponsor logos, or the low-key grey Professional Crew Coaching Jersey.
Much less over-the-top type (and pricing) choices embody a Rapha+Place EF cotton biking cap, white Rapha+Place EF version artificial Professional Crew socks, or a cotton Rapha+Place EF musette.
No official phrase on pricing or availability but, however we count on it to hit the net store in time for followers to be decked out earlier than the Excursions’ finishes. RCC members will get a primary shot at it although.
Rapha+Palace TdF {custom} Cannondales
c. Cannondale, bike pictures by Twila Federica Muzzi
Each the EF Training-EasyPost males and EF Training-TIBCO-SVB girls will full their Excursions de France on a fleet of three Cannondale race bikes in restricted version Rapha+Palace paintjobs: the light-weight highway SuperSix Evo, the aero highway SystemSix, and the time trial SuperSlice.
Cannondale Rapha+Palace TdF SuperSix Evo frameset
Of these, solely the SuperSix can be accessible to shoppers. You will get your individual Rapha+Palace TdF {custom} Cannondale SuperSix Evo Hello-mod carbon frameset direct from Rapha (quickly), similar to the professionals experience.
Cannondale Rapha+Palace TdF SuperSix Evo Restricted Version
Though, possibly it’s not precisely the one the professionals experience? Final December Cannondale obtained UCI approval to compete on a brand new SuperSix Evo 3 Restricted Version. From the surface the workforce bikes look the identical, so we must assume it’s just a few superlight, extra-stiff carbon layup inside, proper?
Cannondale Rapha+Palace TdF SystemSix
You’ll be able to’t get the particular version Cannondale SystemSix race bikes.
However they nonetheless are value a better look.
There’s a bit extra floor space for foolish graphics on an aero highway bike.
Cannondale Rapha+Palace TdF SuperSlice Evo prototype
Then, the Cannondale SuperSlice Evo takes it to the subsequent degree.
This disc brake SuperSlice (Evo?) seems to technically nonetheless be a prototype. However we’ve noticed it racing for over a yr now, so it’s curious how that matches inside the UCI’s technical guidelines.
In any case, it’s a pleasant massive flashy canvas for the Rapha+Palace Skateboards {custom} look.
