Why is Jonas Vingegaard the only rider on his team to wear a red helmet at the Tour de France?
The Visma-Lease a Bike team 💛leader is the only one wearing the red and white Giro helmet

There are some crazy helmets in this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, and in cycling in general these days.
Both in standard road stages and in time trials, helmet𓂃 designs have been getting more and more outlandish for the past several years. It's at the point now where we're becoming a bit immune to them; a model that would have once caused downright outrage a few years back barely gets a second glance n🀅ow.
After getting over the shock that the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro Aerohead time trial helmet caused last year, along with models like the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sweet Protection Redeemer that Uno-X rolled out in 2023, mo🐷re standard helmet designs nowadays fail to register.
To that point, the special red and white Giro road and time trial helmets that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard ♑is wearing during this year's Tour de France have barely registered th♐us far.
It finally piqued our interests this morning in the Cyclingnews tech team, and we realised none of us knew exactly why the Danish star is wearing a different coloured helmet to the majority of hi﷽s teammate𒈔s.
The only other rider on the team to wear a different helmet is, of course, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout Van Aert, who wears a helmet painted in RedBull livery as per his personal sponsorship deal with the energy drink bra🦂nd. Is the same true for Vingegaard's red helmet?
Af🔜ter a bit of digging, we fo𓃲und the answer to be... 'sort of.'
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The reason for the double Tour de France winner's custom lid is, first and foremost, due to a sponsorship deal between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Visma-Lease a Bike and the ꦍDanish company Bygma; one oౠf the largest suppliers of tools, construction materials and hardware in Denmark.
You can read all about the partnership in this that was put out by the tea🍸m in March, with Vingegaard himse🍰lf describing Bygma as a 'personal and team partner'.
What about the red and white?
The Bygma company colours are red and white, mirroring the D♛aniജsh national flag colours.
We reached out to the team to ask why it's only Vingegaard and not 🌊the whole team, but the teaℱm didn't explicitly explain, but as a Dane, who better to sport them than Vingegaard himself? As the team's star rider and a Tour de France winner, Vingegaard offers the maximum exposure for the sponsor anyway.
Also, as a side note, although we know Lidl-Trek riders and staff don't get to take advantage of free groceries at Lidl supermarkets, I do wonder if Vingegaard pops in to his local Bygma in the off-season to pickup wood screws and sandpaper. I aim to find out about this from the team, because the ability to enjoy complementary hand tools and DIY supplies makes ♚me very jealous.
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Added visibility in the bunch?
I'll be honest, I thought the red and white helmet w🌠as first and foremost to aid visibility in the bunch, so that his teammates could easily spot and aid their captain and use up less energy.
Team GB track riders have experimented with different coloured helmets on the track for Maꦏdison races in particular, so they can spot each other more easily, but it seems this isn't the case.
Perhaps the difference does help riders like Tiesj Benoot and♔ V🍌ictor Campenaerts at times, but given they spend so much time riding with the same people, we'd be surprised if they can't instinctively tell who's who.

Tom joined the Cyclingnews team in late 2022 as a tech writer. Despite hav𒉰ing a degree in English Literature he has spent his entire working life in the cycling industry in one form or another. He has over 10 years of experience as a qualified mechanic, with the last five years before joininꦕg Cyclingnews being spent running an independent workshop. This means he is just as happy tinkering away in the garage as he is out on the road bike, and he isn’t afraid to pull a bike apart or get hands-on with it when testing to really see what it’s made of.
He has ridden and raced bikes from an early age up to a national level on the road and track, and has ridden and competed in most disciplines. He has a keen eye for pro-team tech and enjoys spotting new or interesting components in the wild. During his time at Cyclingnews, Tom has already interviewed some of the sport's biggest names including Mathieu van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar and Alberto Contador. He's also covered various launches from brands such as Pinarello, Ridley, Specialized and more, tackled the Roubaix Challenge sportive aboard his own rim-brake Cannondale SuperSix Evo, tested over 20 aero helmets in the wind tunnel, and has created helpful in-depth buying advice relating to countless categories from torque wrenches to winter clothing.
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