Every team has now unveiled their new kits for the 2026 pro cycling season and Crank Punk is here to hand out two awards, for the Very Best In Class – and the Very Worst!

 Many teams keep signature colours but with new twists: Pinarello-Q36.5 sticks with navy and gold, Jayco AlUla stays with MAAP’s purple “Aurora” plus flame details, and Visma go Lease a Boring.

Come on give cheer up!

I mean come on, yellow and black is not the worst colour combo, do something with it!

Right, I won’t keep you, I know how these award ceremonies drag on…

The Very Worst has to go to: Ineos Grenadiers.

Designed to stand out, says their blurb – just wait til it rains, it’ll be poking ya in the eye!

It’s just terrible, and my main compassion goes to the person who will have to wash it – imagine scrubbing all the asses on these shorts after a wet Paris-Roubaix?

There are tho to be fair a bunch that are just dull – Alpecin, Lotto, EF. 2nd worst for me is the Cofidis kit, looks like a drunk AI designed it.

The Very Best goes to: Pinarello-Q36.5. Yep, I’ve always liked a dark blue – gold combo, and with it matches a very good-looking Pinarello too. The jersey has the sponsors’ names on it clearly, the shorts match, and it’s quite dapper IMHO. They had the best photo shoot too.

Jayco, not bad, like the design but not the colours, not a MAAP fan, though must have the best socks ion the peloton.

Decathlon gets a mention too , not bad.

And the rest…