Of all the pro cycling teams, no team has attracted more interest in kits than EF Pro Cycling (both EF Education-Easy Post and EF Education-Cannondale). The design teams seem to have a much wider range of creativity each year, and they keep up with the times with high-profile collaborations like the Giro d'Italia switching kit each year and the infamous Rapha X Palace duck kit.
This year, as always, pink is the main event. Last year, the color was a depleted shade of pink highlighter ink, but this time it is one color, with black used for the sponsor decals.
As if in homage to my childhood favorite fruit salad, the jerseys are swirled and spotted in yellow, with yellow Rapha armbands and occasional words of encouragement, such as "GO," "TURN THE SCREW," and "UP UP."
In a departure from last season's bright pink socks, the team "by popular demand" decided to run in crisp white socks. Whether this request came from within the team or from outside the team is unclear, but from my perspective, it is a more professional, classier, and better choice. Paying homage to the argyle kits of the Garmin-Sharp era, the long-sleeved team jerseys have a diamond pattern on the cuffs.
We also saw several national champion jerseys. Allison Jackson's Canadian champion jersey dropped the yellow and black, opting for an all-red jersey with white sponsor decals and pink accents. Ben Healy's Irish champion jersey, on the other hand, is all white with a simple green band and green sponsor decals, while Richard Kalapas' entire torso features the Ecuadorian flag.
If you are someone who doesn't mind the "no pro kit unless you are a pro" mantra, you can get a commercial version of the EF kit on Rapha's website.
Moving from the kit to the bike, pink, white, red, yellow, and orange are splashed throughout the team's Cannondale SuperSix Evo frame (and presumably the SystemSix frame), with the same kaleidoscopic, attention-grabbing effect.
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