Jayco AlUla and Liv AlUla Jayco unveil freshly-designed kit for 2024

Australian outfits under the GreenEDGE umbrella to race in new aubergine, blue and white jerseys, in a nod to the Outback and Saudi Arabian city

11:14, Monday 1st January 2024

George Poole

Junior Writer

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Matilde Vitillo (left), Mauro Schmid (centre) and Urška Žigart (right) display their new kits for 2024

Australia's Jayco AlUla and Liv AlUla Jayco went the traditional way in waiting for 2024 to arrive before unveiling their fresh racing kits, with the GreenEDGE Cycling teams lifting the curtain on their new look on Monday morning.

Many teams, such as Visma-Lease a Bike, Soudal Quick-Step and Bora-Hansgrohe, had revealed their fresh look weeks in advance of the New Year, which has allowed Jayco AlUla the spotlight to show off their latest kit on New Year's Day itself. Sported by Matilde Vitillo, Mauro Schmid and Urška Žigart in the team's press pictures, Jayco AlUla's kit is once again largely the same for both the men and women - bar the different title sponsors.

In a striking change from the white and blue jersey that the team were supplied by Alé in 2023, the new kit for the Jayco AlUla men's WorldTeam is orange, white, light blue and navy, with orange and navy helmets to match. The team will continue to ride on Giant Bikes, whose new colourway may have a shout at being named the most dashing in the 2024 peloton.

As for the Women's WorldTeam and UCI Continental team, Jayco AlUla and Liv Racing TeqFind merged in the off-season to become Liv AlUla Jayco in 2024. Their kit has the same design as the men's, but with Liv's trademark aubergine colour replacing the light blue on the upper body.

The merger brought about the end of the Liv Racing TeqFind WorldTeam, but will see Liv AlUla Jayco launch a UCI Continental outfit in 2024, which will effectively serve as a women's development team and allow younger riders the opportunity to flourish.

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Both women's teams will continue to race on Liv bikes in 2024, which themselves offer a striking colourway made up of orange, aubergine, white and seemingly every shade of purple/pink you can imagine.

The Australian sides will be easy to spot in the peloton in 2024

2024 will be the second year that Alé has supplied the teams with their kits, but just one look will tell you that the New Year marks a notable visual change for the Australian sides.

GreenEDGE Cycling says that their new kits have "a dash of blue tones inspired from the Australian ocean, the Jayco blue jay bird and Giant Bicycles, to the red hot desert sands of the outback mixed in with hints of deep aubergine found in the AlUla night sky and Liv Cycling."

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Some eagle-eyed X users have noticed that the new jerseys are akin to the Jayco-AIS kits that the former Australian team wore between 2009 and 2012. The Continental side featured the likes of Michael Matthews, Damien Howson and Luke Durbridge before GreenEDGE launched the Orica GreenEDGE WorldTeam in 2012.