2024 Women's WorldTour bikes ranked by weight

After weighing all the bikes in the Men's WorldTour, we got our hands on the bikes from the Women's WorldTour, and we've once again put them on the scales to find out which is the lightest and which is the heaviest.

GCN's Manon Lloyd was on the ground at the recent UAE Tour, and she made sure to pack her scales and pick up every bike in sight.

Twelve of the 15 WorldTour teams were present at the Middle Eastern race, meaning there are three that aren't included in this ranking but, as Manon says, that's their loss.

Of the 12 teams in attendance, two of them had two separate models in use – an aero bike and a climbing bike – and so our ranking has a total of 14 bikes.

All the bikes were weighed at face value but we've corrected the weights across the board to adjust for different frame sizes and accessories, such as head units and bottle cages.

• Read more: Which WorldTour pro bike is the lightest and which is the heaviest?

The lightest bike

• Team: SD Worx-Protime
• Model: Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8
• Weight: 6.86kg

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SD Worx-Protime Tarmac SL8

The dominant team in the women's peloton also have the lightest bike, and perhaps that's one ingredient in their success. The SL8 is the latest version of Specialized's flagship Tarmac model, now a one-bike solution that effectively phased out the US brand's dedicated aero bike, the Venge.

The SD Worx SL8 is equipped with SRAM's leading RED eTap AXS groupset, with Roval wheels, and Specialized's own Turbo Cotton tyres.

This bike also turned out to be the winning bike of the UAE Tour, as Lotte Kopecky stormed up Jebel Hafeet to claim a stunning overall victory.

The heaviest bike

• Team: Fenix-Deceuninck
• Model: Canyon Aeroroad
• Weight: 7.57kg

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Canyon's Aeroad in action at the UAE Tour

It's perhaps of little surprise that the heaviest bike is from one of the teams who have a separate dedicated aero offering, this being Canyon's Aeroroad. For the mountain stage at the UAE Tour, Fenix-Deceuninck team used Canyon's climbing bike, the Ultimate, which came out as the sixth lightest bike on our list.

The Aeroad takes a weight penalty in the interest of a more aerodynamic build, which would have come in handy for many of the flat and windy stages at the UAE Tour.

It's interesting to note that Canyon-SRAM and Movistar were exclusively using the Aeroad – and not the Ultimate – at the UAE Tour, and their version came in lighter than Fenix-Deceuninck's. Both those teams are using SRAM groupsets and wheels, while Fenix Deceuninck are using Shimano, adding weight to the theory the Japanese component giant tips the scales slightly heavier than its rival.

The results

1. SD Worx Protime – Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL8 - 6.86kg

2. Ceratizit-WNT - Orbea Orca - 6.92kg

3. UAE Team ADQ - Colnago V4RS - 6.98kg

4. Lidl-Trek - Trek Emonda - 7.02kg

5. Liv-AlUla-Jayco - Liv Envi - 7.09kg

6. Fenix-Deceuninck - Canyon Ultimate - 7.10kg

7. Roland - Pinarello Dogma F - 7.13kg

8. Human Powered Health - Factor Ostro VAM - 7.35kg

9. Ceratizit-WNT - Orbea Orca Aero - 7.45kg

10. Movistar - Canyon Aeroad - 7.48kg

11. Uno-X - Dare VRSU - 7.51kg

12. Canyon-SRAM - Canyon Aeroad - 7.52kg

13 FDJ-SUEZ - Lapierre Xelius - 7.55kg

14. Fenix-Deceuninck - Canyon Aeroad - 7.57kg

Analysis

While it's interesting to see who has the lightest and heaviest bikes in the Women's WorldTour, perhaps the most interesting aspect of this is the comparison with the men's bikes.

On average, the women's bikes are lighter. This is perhaps of little surprise as female riders tend to be lighter and smaller, with smaller bikes. However, the trend is seen across the board, at both ends of the scale.

SD Worx's SL8 is 12 grams lighter than Bora-Hansgrohe's chart-topping equivalent on the men's side, while Fenix-Deceuninck's Aeroroad is some 21 grams lighter than EF Education-EasyPost's Cannondale SystemSix.

This begs the question of whether the UCI's minimum weight limit for bikes of 6.8kg, which is in force across the board, should be lowered for the women's peloton.

"I think the answer is yes, it probably could," says GCN's Alex Paton. "I think it would be fantastic to have a bike weight related to the rider weight, to make things fairer, but I don't know how you would ever implement that."

It's a complex subject, and one that we recently delved into on the GCN Tech Show, where Ollie Bridgewood and Jon Cannings examined whether that UCI limit is fit for purpose, and the pros and cons for solutions that have been suggested.