Conor Murphy (Decathlon CMA CGM Development Team), Dillon Corkery (Picnic PostNL) and Sam Bennett (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) have been showing off their new team kits for the 2026 season.
For Corkery, it's a case of very little changing as he had already been riding for World Tour team Picnic PostNL in the second half of last season, when he did a stagiaire with the team.
However, he now returns for his first full season as a World Tour rider; a big step for anyone and a major career milestone that very few riders ever achieve. His kit broadly stays the same as last season.
But Bennett and Murphy are two riders sporting completely new looks, because they've changed teams. And though they are at very different stages of their careers, they will both be really hungry for success this year.
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Murphy steps up from the junior ranks into U23 international racing for the first time. His talent, especially against the watch, has secured him a place in one of the best U23 development teams in the sport.
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And he is now part of the Decathlon CMA CGM family as money is pouring in from its new sponsors and the team is being relaunched, with star riders and with much bigger ambitions.
Murphy, the silver medal winner in the junior TT at the Europeans in France last October, doesn't need to worry about how his team is developing. Instead, the first task is to absorb the higher intensity, and longer race distances at U23 level. Then, in time, he'll look to take some results, with the TT the obvious discipline to target.
As Murphy is a first-year U23, he has lots of time to steady himself and settle into the team and then hopefully, when he finds his feet, start to take a few results.
For Bennett, he is on a one-year contract with Pinarello Q36.5 and has spoken of his desire to find his form again and take the big wins that have marked his career in Europe for over a decade.
Though he has nothing left to prove - having won 10 Grand Tour stages and the green points classification jersey at the Tour - he has spoken in terms of wanting to reach the heights again before his time in the peloton ends.
