Six teams have confirmed Tour-specific visual changes for the 2026 race, with Barcelona's Grand Départ shaping at least two of them and team milestones driving the rest. The scope varies from a jersey-only swap to a full bike-helmet-kit overhaul.
Historically teams would announce a switch-out to avoid clashing with the official event jerseys – the leader's yellow or green sprint jersey – but increasingly teams are now opting for a switch for more personal branding reasons. Below is a selection of the switches announced so far.
Tour de France 2026 kit changes at a glance
Confirmed race-day visual updates
Team | Tour change | Scope | Inspiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |||
| Jayco AlUla | |||
| Movistar | |||
| Pinarello Q36.5 | |||
| Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe | |||
| Visma | Lease a Bike |
Pinarello Q36.5, the full-package debut
Pinarello Q36.5 make their Tour de France debut this year with a strong lineup based around their leader Tom Pidcock. The British rider hasn't had the smoothest build-up to the French Grand Tour but the team will be hoping for a good performance. They will be easier to spot as well with the team changing from their black and blue fade with flashes of gold to a white-and-light-blue jersey. The team unveiled a one-off Pinarello DOGMA F in Titan and Luxter Venice, accented with Champion Gold detailing, plus a matching ABUS helmet in the same palette.
The same elaborate colour palette runs through the kit and bike with the Q36.5 kit's Dottore Pro skinsuit using Graphene yarn fabric. "Standing on the start line of the Tour wearing this Limited Edition isn't the destination, it's another step in building the future of this team," team principal Douglas Ryder said.
Barcelona on the jersey
Two teams drew inspiration from the Grand Départ city for their jersey designs with a special focus on the newly finished Sagrada Familia after 144 years of building. Antoni Gaudí also gets a nod as the designer of the famed cathedral but also several other buildings in the area.
Movistar, which has spent most of 2026 in a predominantly white kit, revealed a blue-based special jersey on 29 June built around the forms and geometries of the Sagrada Familia. The release coincides with the centenary of Gaudí's death. "We worked with light, transparencies and geometries inspired by the Sagrada Familia to create a pattern that reveals new nuances as the perspective changes," said Alberto García, co-founder of kit supplier Gobik.
Visma | Lease a Bike also referenced Barcelona. The team ran a public fan vote that drew more than 100,000 responses; the dark version won with 52% and will serve as the race jersey. The losing light version will still appear as the team's first-ever rest-day jersey. Both designs fall under a concept called The Architect, centred on Gaudí and a honeycomb motif meant to represent collective strength.
Heritage and surprise
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA are marking their own Tour debut as a current structure with a retro jersey that references the earlier Caja Rural team, which raced the Tour in 1987 and 1988. The kit will be used only during this race and will carry #ForçaJaume in support of their teammate Jaume Guardeño who was seriously injured in a training accident with a car. The kit is smart and clean with green and white being the main colours with touches of yellow to bring the colours of the two sponsors through clearly.
Jayco AlUla's change comes from kit supplier MAAP. The kit brand known for bold designs and pushing the limits has come out with even more vibrancy on the already eye-catching purple jersey by adding fluorescent flames. This kit actually debuted at Paris Fashion Week in an installation called Hyperperformance and said that only 150 sets would be sold worldwide. The same swap-out concept extends to Liv AlUla Jayco for the Tour de France Femmes.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's upside-down 13
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe have followed through on their habit of a Tour-specific look, building the 2026 jersey around an oversized, inverted number 13 that runs the length of the kit to mark the team's 13th appearance at the race. The number sits in a gradient that flows from white shoulders into deep blue, with the clean lines and transparent layering carried across from the team's new bike design.
The upside-down 13 leans on an old piece of peloton superstition – riders have long flipped an unlucky race number 13 to ward off bad luck – and the team point to their own history with it, from Stage 13 first putting the German squad in the spotlight on their 2014 debut to Peter Sagan's record-breaking Green Jersey in 2019. The Special Edition kit is on sale now.
The Tour de France begins on Saturday July 4 in Barcelona with the usual new-look peloton.
Cover image credit: Maxim van Gils/ Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
