INEOS Grenadiers

Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) is the reigning mountain bike Olympic and world champion, a successful Classics racer on the road, and former cyclo-cross world champion.

Pidcock was introduced to the international cycling community in 2017 during the last year of his junior career, where he won the junior edition of Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships time trial. 

As an U23 rider, Pidcock initially placed more of his attention off-road with his road cycling limited mostly to the big U23 races on the calendar. While the likes of Remco Evenepoel and Quinn Simmons skipped the U23 level and vaulted straight to the World Tour level, Pidcock took the more traditional approach and only elevated to the highest level of pro cycling in 2021 when he signed for Ineos Grenadiers. 

Immediately upon entering the WorldTour, Pidcock made his presence known, with strong showings in the early Classics and his first pro win at De Brabantse Pijl ahead of Wout van Aert. That result was followed by a controversially close second to Van Aert at Amstel Gold Race, and then a string of successful mountain bike races in the lead into a gold medal performance in Tokyo during the summer.

In 2022, Pidcock won the cyclo-cross World Championship in the US before he returned his focus to the road and found success at his first Tour de France with a stage win at the top of Alpe d’Huez. In 2023, Pidcock chose to focus on road racing instead of defending his 'cross title and went on to take a memorable solo victory at Strade Bianche, though he returned to off-road success by winning the cross-country mountain bike world title in Glasgow. 

His 2024 will be built around the Ardennes Classics, Tour de France and Paris Olympic Games.

Tom Pidcock

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Pro Bikes

Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Dogma F pro bike

 is a rider who can seemingly turn his hand to any discipline on two wheels with ease. Just a handful of days after

 taking a win at the Shimano MTB Super Cup

, he made his road season debut putting the 2024 

The Dogma F is the only road bike available to the 

 with the team being part of the WorldTour contingent that uses one 

‘all-rounder’ style bike instead of separate climbing and aero bikes.

 This means that the Dogma F has to strike the balance between being competitive in both its overall system weight as well as its aerodynamic performance characteristics, something that typically has bikes hitting the scales well above the UCI’s 6.8kg minimum weight limit.

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For 2024, the Pinarello Dogma F chassis has remained as it was last year, but cosmetically it is all change for the Ineos Grenadiers. Although it might not be a significant change in overall design, the bikes for 2024 feature a black to orange fade, deviating from last year's navy blue to red fade. 

The orange portion of the frame has also been reduced from last year with the frame mostly black. Although this is largely an aesthetic decision, it does come with the added benefit of shedding a few extra grams from the weight of the frameset, Pinarello claims.

Tom Pidcock dodges crashes on Volta ao Algarve opener with TT aims on the horizon

Pidcock looks to be bucking the trend of a lot of his professional comrades opting to run the tightest ratio cassette Shimano offers for the Dura-Ace groupset. Typically, riders have been opting for the wider 11-34 tooth cassette giving them an easy climbing gear even when paired to the now-typical 54/40 crankset of Shimano-sponsored teams. 

Pidcock, however, has decided instead to stick to the 11-30 tooth cassette that has more consistent spacing between the gears allowing him to sit closer to his ideal cadence at all times.

Interestingly on the bike fit front, Pidcock has his 

 saddle mounted to the seat post in the most extreme position that the saddle is certified for. 

Most riders tend to move their saddle forward trying to put them directly on top of the bottom bracket and giving them a similar position to that of a TT bike. Pidcock’s position however is going in the opposite direction to this, hinting that he might find himself between two frame sizes and has opted to run the smaller frame size.

We have seen Ineos Grenadiers mounting the race transponder behind the fork leg of their TT bikes in the past in an attempt to conceal the obligatory equipment from the wind. Pidcock’s road bike, however, has it mounted in the more traditional location on the side of the fork. The team has done away with zip ties, though, and instead mounted the transponder with a section of latex inner tube. 

The small section of the inner tube smooths over the profile in an attempt to make the fork and transponder form one fluid shape. Sometimes the best solutions are also some of the cheapest.

As one of Shimano’s premier teams, a lot of the finishing kit on the Ineos bikes is from Shimano, including their C50 carbon wheels that are running Continental GP5000 tubeless tyres. Pidcock is also using a set of Shimano Dura-Ace pedals fitted to his Dura-Ace power meter cranks.

The cockpit comes courtesy of Pinarello’s in-house brand MOST with the Talon Ultralight one-piece bar and stem shrouded in the brand's Ultragrip EVO bar tape.

Finishing off the bike are two bottle changes from team sponsor Elite. Pidcock is using the carbon fibre Leggero cages to keep him hydrated through a day's racing.

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Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Dogma XC: MTB World Championships-winning pro bike

We take a closer look a bike worthy of a world champion mountain biker


Tom Pidcock XC mountain bike world champion Pinarello Dogma XC Pro bike

 is a rider who doesn’t need much of an introduction, no matter what discipline of cycling you're talking about. Whether it's road, mountain biking or cyclo-cross, he seems to be able to turn his hand to anything, and master it in a way that looks outrageously effortless. This year Pidcock took to the start line at three cross-country Mountain Bike World Cup (XCO) races, with a result sheet of two wins and one third place.

Not only did Pidcock spend his entire XCO campaign on the podium but he also went one step further in August by taking his first 

World Championship victory in the off-road discipline

 This victory can be added to both his elite cyclo-cross world title and his victory at the 2022 Tour de France on Alpe d'Huez to cement his name as one of the most versatile riders in the world, all whilst still only 24 years of age. 

The big change in Pidcock's mountain bike season this year? He did it all aboard a newly-designed Pinarello as his team sponsor turned their eyes towards manufacturing a mountain bike. 

 had not had a cross country bike in its catalogue meaning that Pidcock and 

 have previously had to race on unbranded XC bikes from an unnamed manufacturer. That changed earlier in the year when Pinarello announced that the Dogma XC would be the latest addition to its existing road and 'cross line-ups. 

Tom Pidcock to race Tour de France and Paris Olympics mountain bike in 2024

Pinarello bucks trends with rear triangle design

When the bike was initially launched, the brand made it known that the bike would not be available for purchase until sometime in spring 2024. From its launch in March this year it has only been available for the two Pinarello-sponsored XC athletes in Tom Pidcock and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.

One of the interesting design characteristics of the Dogma XC is how Pinarello has gone about the rear triangle of the bike. Typically with a full suspension mountain bike, the seatstays and chainstays would feature a bridge between both sides to offer some structural rigidity. Pinarello has bucked the trend here, using two completely separate sections to make up the two rear triangles. In doing this, not only has the clearance for mud been improved, but also the chainstays can be reduced in length to provide a snappier feeling to the rear of the bike.

Tom Pidcock and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s new Pinarello Dogma XC revealed

Although hard to see from the driveside of the bike, the Dogma XC also has a unique bottom bracket area, with a strut joining the down tube to the seat tube just above the typical junction. Pinarello says that using a design such as this increases stiffness and accommodates an oversized bearing and pivot point for the rear triangle.

Pinarello in-house component brand MOST provides the cockpit, with a beautiful one-piece bar and stem, a nice feature to keep everything tidy and in order is the integrated routing through the bars. This also acts as an added layer of protection in the event of a crash keeping all hoses close to the bike and less likely to get ripped out.

Not all XC tracks are made of the same stuff: some of them can be bordering on aggressive gravel with the need for efficiency the main aim, whereas others such as the recent course at Mont-Sainte-Anne resemble enduro mountain bike stages linked with punishing technical climbs. Having a bike that can adapt to this spectrum of riding is something that is becoming an increasingly crucial ingredient in the recipe of success.

Pinarello has it covered on this front, with the ability to run both a 100mm and 120mm fork up front as well as a shock with an effective stroke length to deliver 90mm or 100mm, both of which are provided by SR Suntour, with their prototype electronically controlled suspension that has been in testing and development with Pidcock for a few seasons now.

We managed to take a look at Pidock’s Dogma XC prior to his victory at the Scotland World Championships in Glentress. Instead of a rainbow affair, the bike is decorated with plenty of gold accents, a reminder to all that he is the current Olympic Champion in the discipline after claiming the top step in Tokyo two years ago.

On the top tube of the bike is a slight rainbow motif, with a hand of cards sitting just above, with the motto "play your cards right" etched into the design. We all know now that Pidcock did indeed play his cards right and is now the owner of the rainbow bands for the next season.

Pidcock has recently revealed that he will take aim at defending his Olympic title next year in Paris, along with lining up at the Tour de France which concludes just a week prior, with the Olympic road race a week after the XCO mountain bike - it certainly will be a busy summer for Pidcock.

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Date	Event	Discipline	Classification
6/29/2024	Tour de France	Road	2.UWT
8/3/2024	Olympic Games RR	Road	WCRR

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