TOUR·KINETIC

Pinarello–Q36.5 · 2026 Tour de France
Climber-domestique (Pidcock's mountain lieutenant)
Chris Harper

The Andorra-based Australian gave this team one of its landmark days when he soloed to victory at Piancavallo on the final mountain stage of the 2025 Giro — 'my last chance in the race,' as he put it.

Chris Harper paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Pinarello–Q36.5 kit

The Andorra-based Australian gave this team one of its landmark days when he soloed to victory at Piancavallo on the final mountain stage of the 2025 Giro — 'my last chance in the race,' as he put it. A late bloomer who came through domestic Aussie squads before Jumbo-Visma and Jayco, Harper is the last man Pidcock will want on his wheel when the Tour hits the high mountains.

Palmarès

  • Giro d'Italia stage 20 winner at Piancavallo (2025)
  • Team time trial stage winner, Vuelta a España (2022, with Jumbo-Visma)
  • Tour of Japan overall winner (2019)
  • Oceania road race champion (2018)
Cut-out factHe grew up watching Tour de France broadcasts with his brother but didn't own a road bike until he was 17.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Tom Pidcock, Xabier Mikel Azparren, Fred Wright, Quinten Hermans, Xandro Meurisse, Damien Howson, Brent Van Moer — see the full Pinarello–Q36.5 team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net, author: see source, license: see source. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.