Biniam Girmay Wins Green Jersey

Biniam Girmay won the Tour de France green jersey at 24 years old. He achieved this after three impressive sprint stage victories in the first two weeks of racing.

What happened?

Biniam Girmay became the first black African to win a Grand Tour Stage two years ago at the Giro. He set new benchmarks at this year's Tour, starting with a Stage 3 bunch sprint.

The Bike

Biniam's bike is a custom Cube Litening Aero C:68X TE with a sparkling dark green paint job. The bike features a light green crystalline pattern underneath and forest green Prologo bar tape. The Cube Litening Aero has a shallower depth seatpost than most other aero bikes.

New Equipment

One new bit of kit on Biniam's Litening is the Look Keo Blade Ceramic pedals in classic PMU Tour sprinter's green. These pedals are more durable and aerodynamic, introduced earlier this year with Biniam Girmay as the face of the product launch campaign. Biniam's Cube Litening Aero also features a complete Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 12-speed groupset. He has the Shimano powermeter crank, so no need for the powermeter version of the Look pedals.

Racing Style

Biniam is still racing with the Bryton S800 GPS cycling computer, but with a green sticker around his display. He rode his bike to two more bunch sprint wins on Stages 8 and 12, fully kitted out in green. The Intermarché-Wanty team had this shiny green Litening Aero ready for Biniam on July 4th. Biniam's aero road race bike gets the TE team edition label, and the C:68X mark of Cube's top-tier hi-mod carbon layup. The bike has gotten a naming update to the Litening Aero after Cube introduced a lightweight climber's bike under the similar Litening Air name. And he went on to take two more bunch sprint wins on Stages 8 and 12 on the new bike. Biniam Girmay's custom green Cube Litening Aero road bike played a key role in his green jersey win.