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TDT-Unibet unveils one of the most striking pro bikes of 2024 

The latest team to reveal its 2024 livery is 

EF-Education EasyPost announced their team bikes

 last week, assumingly safe in the knowledge that they have the most vibrant bikes in the peloton. Well it appears there is a challenger to this title giving EF a run for their money. 

An eye-catching pink-and-blue colour scheme will be showcased by TDT-Unibet in their first campaign as a UCI ProTeam, with the Dutch squad also using bikes supplied by Cannondale. 

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Devin van der Wiel, one of the team's founders had this to say about the new livery: "With last season's yellow and pink rocket, we made a smashing entrance into the cycling world. The design made many tongues wag and was immediately a classic."

“Also this year - as befits us - we paid a lot of attention to developing a colourful bike with a strong identity. I'm incredibly happy with this splashy design and it fits perfectly with the vision and core values of both Tour de Tietema and Cannondale."

The team will be racing the SuperSix Evo frames built up with 

 Dura-ace Di2 and Scope wheels. An interesting inclusion for the team's equipment choice is to use 

 Rally pedals rather than Shimano’s own in built crank-based power meter. The cockpit is a one-piece affair from Cannondale's own partnership with Momo offering an aerodynamic flight deck at the front of the bike.

Jonathan Geran, Global Director Sports Marketing at Cannondale said: “After last season’s big success, we are very proud to continue our partnership with TDT-Unibet. Tour de Tietema is one of the most entertaining projects in pro cycling and they are taking a huge step by becoming a UCI ProTeam, an incredible development.”

Tour de Tietema was formed in 2019 by Tietema, Van der Wiel and Josse Wester, with the YouTube channel originally documenting the trio's outings at the Tour de France, including wheelies up mountains and handing out food and drink to the peloton. 

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In 2023, Tour de Tietema launched their first professional cycling team, with the squad racing as a UCI Continental outfit and lighting up many races with their unique style. For 2024, they make the step up to the UCI ProTour with a bigger and better racing schedule to boot. The team are very proud of the fact they will be the first team on ProTour level with their own name as a primary identity. 

What do you make of the new team bikes? Are you a fan or do they leave a bitter aftertaste, let us know in the comments below.

Primož Roglič and others show off their new 2024 team kits

Primož Roglič wasted no time in showing off his 2024 headshot

The fireworks have popped, Auld Lang Syne has been sung and new riders have already been draped in their new team jerseys, marking the beginning of a new year in professional cycling. As the clock struck midnight around the world, old team contracts reached their natural end and riders on the move have been able to legally show off their new colours, including 

 champion has already been pictured on the German WorldTeam's website, in his fresh attire, which sees Bora-Hansgrohe reunite with 

 as their kit manufacturer. Featuring "fresh light green accents," the team's 2024 jersey is very much like their 2023 jersey, only with bright green/yellow replacing the tried and tested red patterns on the front of the kit. 

As a former Slovenian national champion, the country's national flag is wrapped on the end of Roglič's sleeves, as he enters another year in the professional peloton. Now a four-time Grand Tour champion, Roglič's debut season in Bora-Hansgrohe colours will be spent trying to add a first 

 title to both his and the team's trophy cabinet. 

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Mikel Landa, Victor Lafay and Wout van Aert break cover in new colours

Roglič is not the only rider to be loud and proud in his new jersey on 1 January 2024, with the likes of 

 (Visma-Lease a Bike) all spotted in their fresh colours ahead of the new season. For Van Aert, this means not a change of team, but a change in the shade of yellow in which his Visma-Lease a Bike team will be racing. 

The team formerly known as Jumbo-Visma may have lost Roglič in 2024, but they welcome 

 alongside Visma, who have stepped up their commitment in the absence of founding sponsor, Jumbo. With the new name comes a fresh set of jerseys, which offer a strikingly brighter tone of yellow than in the past. 

Van Aert's jersey is emblazoned with the Belgian tricolore colours on his collar and sleeves, to signify his status as a former Belgian national champion - though the less said about his folded left sleeve, the better. 

For the likes of Lafay and Landa, the New Year brings a change of teams for two of the peloton's best climbers. Lafay has been quick to post a picture of himself in the new 

 jersey on Instagram, whilst Landa has been pictured sporting a rockstar pose in his 

Landa is perhaps the most noted of the two riders, having twice finished on the podium of the Giro d'Italia - along with two fourth-place finishes at the Tour de France - but it is Lafay who most recently won a stage at a Grand Tour. The Frenchman produced a career performance on stage 2 of last year's Tour de France, to beat the likes of 

 (Ineos Grenadiers) to the day's honours. 

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's support crew for the Belgian's tilt at the Tour de France, whilst also offering the Belgian WorldTeam a valuable asset in week-long and three-week stage races as a leader in his own right. 

As for Lafay, the former Cofidis man will be hoping to add to his maiden Grand Tour stage victory, as well as finding consistency in the Ardennes Classics. Soon to turn 28 years of age, Lafay should be entering his peak years and he will do so as a leader on the newly-named Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale WorldTeam. 

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1 January is a day in which Instagram is annually flooded with pictures of riders in their new jerseys, be it as part of their existing team, like Van Aert, or as a proud member of their new team, such as Lidl-Trek's Tao Geoghegan Hart. Many of these riders have, of course, been spotted in their new jerseys at recent training camps, but Monday marked the moment that they are contractually allowed to don their fresh jerseys in public. 

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UAE Team Emirates' new recruit Pavel Sivakov was among the cavalcade of riders who showed off his new colours on social media. Much like Geoghegan Hart, the Frenchman has left Ineos Grenadiers after years of service and will now look for greater opportunities elsewhere. At the team's recent training camp in La Nucia, Spain, Sivakov revealed to 

 that as well as the Tour de France this summer, he may also ride the Vuelta a España and try his hand at a GC bid. 

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Alongside new kit, riders are also quick to become accustomed to their new gear as the first races of the season appear on the horizon. Australia's Sarah Gigante has been confirmed to ride the Santos Tour Down Under in the coming weeks and the 23-year-old has wasted no time in sampling the best equipment that Specialized have to offer. 

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Gigante has made the switch from Movistar to AG Insurance-Soudal Team for the 2024 season, and with this has adopted Specialized bikes and equipment. The brand has made waves in the last couple of seasons with the introduction of the snood balaclava which riders have adopted under their time trial helmets. 

In recent posts on her Instagram, Gigante has found amusement in her first few training sessions wearing the aero snood matched with the TT5 lid, which does admittedly give riders the look of a Star Wars character. 

Gigante will race the Australian National Championships time trial on Thursday and will do so wearing her fresh kit, which pays homage to her previous two victories in this discipline, with the green and gold bands on her sleeves. Infamously, Movistar had no such feature on their time trial kits for the Australian. 

For some, the first races of 2024 have already been and gone, with the cyclo-cross campaign continuing at a canter in northern Europe. New UCI ProTeam 

 officially unveiled their new blue, red and yellow get-up on 2 January, but eagle-eyed fans will have 

spotted Lander Loockx in action in his new kit on 1 January at GP Pétange

. Bas Tietema's team will hope to light up the peloton in their eye-catching strip throughout 2024. 

Tom Pidcock, meanwhile, sported a special Ineos Grenadiers kit at the X2O Badkamers Trofee round in Baal on Tuesday. The mud of Belgium did not bring Pidcock much luck, but the former world champion remained an easy man to pick out from the bunch, given his all bright orange attire. 

Ineos Grenadiers' new kit for 2024 may have been 

 ahead of its official launch, but Gobik have also produced a limited edition CX jersey that Pidcock will wear in his remaining 'cross races. Whilst the team's road jersey fades to black over the left shoulder, Pidcock's 'cross kit remains orange and sports some fresh patterns on the front. 

Pidcock will continue to sport the rainbow jersey as MTB world champion in 2024, though his commitments will likely be scaled back in advance of his crack at a Tour de France GC bid. 

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As it seems to do every year, January has rolled around in the blink of an eye, and with the sightings of many riders in their new colours, attention and anticipation will soon build to the first road races of the season. For both the men's and women's WorldTour outfits, the first real mark on the calendar will be the Santos Tour Down Under, which gets underway for the women on 11 January. The men's race follows just four days later. 

Check out our race pages to find out everything you need to know ahead of the 

, as the new racing season rears its head. 

UCI confirms WorldTour and ProTeam licences for 2024 season

The full list of UCI teams is largely as expected, with a couple of surprises in the mix

UCI has confirmed the official line-up of WorldTour and ProTour teams for the men’s and women's pelotons

, with no changes to the men’s WorldTour, but two teams stepping up to Women’s WorldTour level for 2024.

 is the main talking point, whilst the UCI also confirmed which ProTeams and women’s Continental squads will receive automatic WorldTour race invites next season.

The most notable changes come in the Women’s WorldTour line-up, with this year marking a promotion and demotion year in the women’s peloton. However, due to the closure of the EF Education-TIBCO-SVB team and the merger between Jayco-AlUla and Liv Racing TeqFind, there was in fact no demotion, with top-ranked Continental teams AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step and Ceratizit-WNT being awarded the two free WorldTour licences.

also applied for a spot in the WorldTour but missed out due to their lower ranking compared to AG Insurance and Ceratizit-WNT.

, a Continental team from Uzbekistan, has earned invitations to all the Women’s WorldTour races in 2024 as the second-best ranked Continental squad, outside of those being promoted. For reference, the other team receiving an invitation to all the WorldTour races is 

, a team that earned 1,975 UCI points. Tashkent City, conversely, earned 1,703 points, with most coming away from European racing.

Absent from the Women’s WorldTour will be the new 

 team, who were unable to take over the licence from the outgoing EF Education-TIBCO-SVB squad and, as a new team, were not in contention for one of the promotion spots.

On the men's side, the only real change comes in the form of the loss of the Australian ProTeam Bolton Equities Black Spoke and the American ProTeam Human Powered Health. Only one team will be replacing the two outgoing squads, with the TDT-Unibet squad ascending to the ProTour level.

The 18 WorldTour teams remain the same, with the men’s current promotion/relegation cycle ending at the end of 2025, where licences will change hands based on rankings.

 will have automatic wild-card invitations to all the WorldTour races in 2024 as the two highest-performing ProTeams in 2023, while 

, as they will be known in 2024, will receive invitations to all the one-day races on the WorldTour.

2024 women’s automatic wildcard selections:

2024 men’s automatic wildcard selections:

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Name	Age	UCI Career Wins	UCI Points
Hartthijs de Vries	27	3	264
Adam Toupalik	28	10	263
Davide Bomboi	24	0	174
Cedrik Bakke Christophersen	22	1	159
Nicklas Pedersen	30	1	132

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