With only a few weeks of exhibition criteriums left in the next few weeks of the 2024 racing season, Cycling News is already thinking about next year's race calendar.

Equipment and sponsors often change during the off-season, and Uno-X will switch from Deerbike to Ridley next year. Today, Cyclingspy's Instagram page released an image of what appears to be a setup session of the new Ridley bikes for the team riders.

We only have one image and zero information, but it appears to have been shared by a rider and then deleted. Cyclingspy's Instagram account, which reports on pro cycling techniques, shared it in a post.

Belgian brand Ridley has introduced several new models in recent years. Last year at the Dauphiné, it featured a prototype bike that became the Falcon RS lightweight aero bike.

This summer, the all-mighty Grifn RS was released, and just a few weeks ago, an aero gravel race bike named the Astra RS, which took fourth place at Unbound. The bike was used to great effect by Tech Editor Josh Croxton at the British National Gravel Championships, and he built his own gravel superbike for the event.

The current Ridley aero race bike is the Noah Fast, a long-standing model that has been updated and improved many times and has won many major victories over the years.

This new machine looks different from the current Noah Fast and actually shares some similarities with the current Uno x Dare aero bike. The most noticeable feature is the huge squared-off head tube junction, but it also has an aero profile fork, low head tube, and squared-off downtube and top tube. Ridley has its own wind tunnel, and if this is indeed a new race bike, it has spent some hours in the wind tunnel.

Cyclingnews has reached out to Ridley for comment, but has yet to hear back.

The Uno-X rider is currently racing on a Dare race bike and covered Alexander Kristoff's Dare prototype at Paris-Roubaix earlier this year. The bike has an aggressive appearance and looks fast even when stationary.

The Velocity Ace, like other aero bikes on the market, takes advantage of updated UCI rules to design a deep, aggressive head tube.