New XDS-Astana Team Pro Bikes | The Brand You’ve Never Heard Of

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Here's a first look at the bike that's been causing quite the stir! For the first time, a fully Chinese-branded bike has made it into the WorldTour. Conor Dunne visits the Astana-Qazaqstan team—now to be known as XDS-Astana in 2025—to check out their new, X-Lab bikes. 🚴‍♂️ 👀

We’ll dive into the details of their sleek aero, model and take a closer look at their lightweight climbing bike, both manufactured by XDS Carbon Tech.

⏱️ Timestamps: ⏱️
00:00 XDS-Astana’s fully Chinese-branded bikes
00:30 Aero model from X-Labs (XDS carbon tech)
01:33 The X-Lab AD-9 (aero bike)
03:04 Clearance, bike profile & aero nose
04:09 Weight, logo & freehub soundcheck
05:20 X-Lab RT-9 (climbing bike)
07:43 Those are the X-lab 2025 WorldTour bikes!

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What do you think of XDS-Astana team's new bike? 😍

gcntech

And, it looks like a kids bike with Conor holding it, !

cb

Happy new year to the whole team at GCN!

Millicente

Climbing bike looks like a near identical copy of the tarmac sl5. I’m somewhat surprised that they haven’t modernized it a little more, seeing a seat post collar and entirely cylindrical tubes on a world tour team bike is definitely rare.

caedmoniusdomi

I'm impressed, but I'm not surprised. The Chinese bike industry has been flexing for a while now.
Both bikes look like they belong in the pro peloton, the aero bike especially.

space.youtube

It will forever be funny to see you trying to stop the rear wheel with the left. 😘

LLdasVitamin

well as a Chinese, I wouldn’t say the modern bikes in China is bad and it actually developed a lot since these 2 years, such as Merida, XDS, Java, Sava, Seka, etc… they were infamous and right now they are in the stages all over the world, also there are more people who are joining to cycling, these brands are producing and offering affordable and quality bikes. I hope they can get more better in the future, and the last things is, Happy New Year!!!

hantangwang

It looks great, the paint job is 🔥.
The look of the climbing bike is lovely.

Tristanpoulter

Impressive indeed. If they can make these bikes less expensive than Van Rysel and win any grand tour stage, market success is guaranteed.

권용대-bv

XDS makes millions of bikes every year and please don't judge before you figure out where your luxury brand bikes really come from. What can they do wrong? Proud of it!

mutingzhou

Very interesting, brave and "daring" decision from Astana. Only the brave conquer the TOP summits ! 💪😎✌ Wish Tham a GOOD LUCK !

maksimloginov

XDS needs to use this as a platform for other premium Chinese brands to showcase their gear eg: Cybrei Cranks, Elite Wheels etc. UAE have been sporting Chinese carbon cranks on their TT bikes branded as SRM. So it's time for those brands to not live behind a mask and flex letting the world know that they are in fact already in the tour for a few seasons.

suhdud

Thank you, Hans Klopek, very cool bike!

KriegKadaver

proud of xds❤my campus is just near by the xds company and they make fantastic bike. Actually Conalgo v4rs is also made near my campus by Bee bike(5 mins walking). They sell the v4rs frame with their brand and most importantly it cost only 1500 dollars!!! I don’t think Colnago’s paint job worths another 6500 dollars

JacobLee-ge