The most talked-about signings of the year on the road, except for one, are already showing off their new colors

As every beginning of the year, social media is filled with cyclists wearing the kits of their new teams for the upcoming season. An extensive list of professionals with names like Lazkano, Alaphilippe, Simon Yates, Campenaerts... in which, however, one of the most talked about in recent months is missing, that of Tom Pidcock for Q36.5.

Cyclists who have changed teams review their new team kits

The validity of cycling contracts, which are established on a calendar year basis rather than based on the cycling season, means that, despite knowing the destination of all of them for months, it is not until the new year that we can finally see them dressed in the jerseys they will wear in the upcoming season. All this while they have been training for weeks under the discipline of their new teams and using the bikes and technical equipment of these teams. One of those cycling absurdities that continues year after year.

Many changes in the cycling landscape for this 2025, starting with Tom Pidcock who, after a significant disagreement with INEOS Grenadiers, will compete this new season with the Q36.5 team. Interestingly, the British rider is the only one we still don't have a photo of wearing his new kit.

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If we have been able to see other highly anticipated ones like Oier Lazkano, the revelation of the classics in the last season and the great hope of Spanish cycling to finally achieve a great victory on the cobbles, and whom we have already seen wearing the Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe kit.

It will be difficult for us to get used to, after years under the QuickStep umbrella, seeing Julian Alaphilippe in another kit, especially considering the great difference between the colors of the Belgian team and the Tudor Pro Cycling where he will now compete. A Tudor team that has strengthened very seriously and also includes Marc Hirschi in its ranks.

Another cyclist who made a lot of noise in the last part of the season like Ben O'Connor changes the blue with green tones of Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale for the striking purple color that the Australian team Jayco-AlUla will wear this season, where he will assume the leader role after the departure of their emblem for years. We are talking about the British rider Simon Yates who, at 32 years old, is beginning to realize that the decline of his career is starting by signing what will probably be his last major contract, in this case, with Visma-Lease a Bike where he will surely be the main lieutenant of Jonas Vingegaard in the Tour de France.

A Visma-Lease a Bike that also does not neglect its classics team with a man also capable of pulling the cart and seeking breakaways in the grand tours like Victor Campenaerts who changes teams after competing for most of his career in the current Lotto-Dstny structure.

On the other hand, the money from XDS, the new Chinese sponsor of Astana seems to have been noticed, being one of the teams that has strengthened the most. Something necessary considering their delicate situation in terms of securing a place in the World Tour at the end of this year, when they complete the next three-year period of license validity, so they will have to do very well throughout this season to stay in the top category of cycling. For now, signings like Diego Ulissi, Wout Poels, or Sergio Higuita give them hope of achieving the necessary points at the end of the year to be among the top 18.

We conclude the review of the relevant signings of this 2025 first with the revelation cyclist of the last edition of La Vuelta a España. A Pablo Castrillo who already wears the colors of Movistar Team. On the other hand, coming from this team, a Alex Aranburu arrives at Cofidis, with the Spanish Champion jersey under his arm, who in the Navarre team did not manage to deliver everything that was expected of him and will try to recover the version that we enjoyed in 2021 when he was pedaling in the ranks of Astana.

Many changes that will make us a little crazy when we watch the broadcasts of the first races of the season and to which we will have to quickly get used to.