UCI seeking rule change which will allow transferring riders to wear new team kit before January 1

(From L) Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe’s German rider Florian Lipowitz, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel and Slovenian rider Primoz Roglic attend a press conference in the media day of their new team in Binissalem on Mallorca Island on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Jaime REINA / AFP).

It's a strange sight that we see every year, one that appears to be unique to cycling – riders at training camps with their new teams standing out among the crowd clad in the colours of their former teams.

The UCI contract rule, which upholds that strange state of affairs – 2.15.139: 'The riders may not, for the duration of the present contract, work for any other team or advertise for any other sponsors…' before the contract switchover date of December 31 – may now be changing, however.