We’ve made our predictions for the road cycling tech trends we may see in 2025. Road cycling trends are always changing however, you can expect to see everything from bigger tyres, more mechanical groupsets, more data data analysis, and lighter bikes. To help you navigate the ever changing world of road cycling, we’ve pulled together all the tech trends we expect to see over 2025. If you think we missed any, let us know down in the comments!
00:00 – Intro
00:26 – Lighter Bikes
02:01 – Bigger Tyres
03:30 – More Chinese Brands
05:20 – More Mechanical Groupsets
07:07 – System Efficiency
08:53 – Adaptive Pressure
10:20 – MORE Data!
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Trying to sell expensive uneccessary upgrades will again be the major trend of bike videos in 2025. 😊😊😊
Well duh obviously we want lighter bikes. Dropped seat stays suck!
Glcose monitoring is already available with minute to minute Blood Glucose levels being measured and showing on Smart Phone apps. This ca als be seen by third party's e.g Coachs
Belt drive, shaft drive, imagine a line of gears going down the chain stay.
Lightweight means rim brakes
Aero lightweight comfortable all around with clearance for 40mm 700 or 50mm 650b.
i agree with most of this. Your UL bikes will achieve sub 5kgs by going back to rim brakes. I feel some of my customers will want a high quality, but no nonsense road bike at 1/3 of the price of the bikes we all see winning races. This will mean chorus, 105, alu frames and 28,30mm tyres. People are fed up with Livs etc.
In other words, we're going back to how things used to be and marketing this as some kind of revolution. Bike industry has become a joke and is suffering as a result
Cycling companies at first could not make disk brake bikes as light as an lightweight rim brake bike so sold them as "aero" bikes. Now they have spent loads and now can make them as light now it matters again.
Lightweight always mattered just the marketers decided it didn't and all the magazines and YouTube reviews pushed this….until now they can make bikes light again it matters 😂
Yawn
The industry is just trying to compensate for the disc brakes being far to poweful, hence crashes. Why not just say this. Well, that wouldnt be a good idea, but it's the science. The limit of grip ois where thtyres fail pre cash, so we need bigger tyres. I don't think rim brakes will be making a comeback. A 19 mm tub has a smaller aera than a 30 mm tyre. The science won't change, but improving another area to make up for it slightly and improving the system drag to compensate.
How can you lie so hard so early in the video?
Brands trying to make bikes faster, lighter and more comfortable?
Heck no, every new "innovation" is usually a huge step backwards to steal money from naive people.
Nothing special.
The essential remain the same.
A bike under or until 10k is a great bike!
I'm really sick and tired of supposedly reputable channels such as this pedalling the bike industry propaganda uncritically. So much so that I'm tempted to cancel my long-term print subscription to Cycling Weekly! WHERE is this scientific evidence for wider tyres being faster that everyone keeps mentioning? 1) The actual independent rolling resistance tests show that width makes practically no difference once the tyre pressure is set to be the same for comfort level. The only limitation is when you can't lower pressure sufficiently for the desired comfort level on a given road surface without risking pinch flats. So the optimum width is dependent on comfort level required, weight of the bike/rider system and road surface, and 25mm will be optimally fast and comfortable for many. 2) Even with wheel width always optimised for tyre width, wider will always be less aerodynamic because there is a larger frontal area. Aerodynamic drag is the product of frontal area x drag coefficiient. Drag coefficient (Cd) is determined by the shape, frontal area by the width. So wider (even with the same shape scaled up) will always be less aerodynamic, pretty much linearly with width.
How numerous are the things of which I have no need (Socrates)
I am a lucky guy😊
"affordable" at 3k is wild for a bike
3k for a bike without a elec. groupset is not a "cheap price" just because other bike from them costs 15k dont mean that 3k is "cheap"
Hey Man, quit weaving all over the road.
Longer top tubes, more stable geometries, fewer floaty bikes that clip wheels, fewer deaths.
They just go back and forth every few years so they can keep selling you bikes.
Trend: people buy used rimbrake bikes with 28mm tyres for at 1/5 the cost
Giant is not a Chinese brand.
2025 will be an exciting year for cycling…
Time for 2wd. Imagine the insanely steep climbs that can be tackled.
2024 was my year of serious bike investment. A Trek SL7 Emonda with ENVE 65s, an XT-soaked Trek Roscoe, and a Canyon Speedmax CF8 – all with all the trimmings and kit, shoes, and a helmet for each. Whatever they invent over the next few years, I’m actually comforted by the fact that I don’t need to know about it…… the wallet is closed 😂
Shimano Di2 Grx ?
re groupsets i have gone from 11 Ultegra mech to Di 12speed …wont be going back same with tyre widths but was on them earlier…
with tyres im a wider convert … the roads where i live in Aus they are crap !! really hard to ride on consistent smooth asphalt ..mostly shipseal and rough !!
We can tell the world's gone mental when cyclocross riders use 35 mm wide tyres and people on the internet demand clearance for 40 mm or more on road bikes.
I feel very happy to have stayed with my Shimano Ultegra mechanical. It just works, no desire for anything else.
I'm going to future proof myself and ride 60mm tires, because every year wider will be better.
We'll look back at premium mechanical groupsets like we do manual transmission supercars. There's that certain purity that nothing electronic can ever replicate.
The one thing the industry is pushing, is Sales
Damn, this video jumped on the marketing hype full throttle. People have now got their aero bikes, so now you need the lightweight one, again. All these sites pushed the marketing hype so they don't get left out. They're as big a part of the problem. SRAM, giving us something not needed or useful, but y'all will push it like it is. Oh, they've been incorporating the whole bike approach..