For the best part of a decade, most conversations about professional cycling kit design tended to orbit one team. EF Education-EasyPost and its long-running partnership with Rapha reframed what a WorldTour kit could be. Bold, expressive and playful – a nod to an era when pro cycling had personality, proving that performance kit could also be cultural shorthand. With that partnership now consigned to history, a gap has opened in the peloton. And in just its second season at WorldTour level, MAAP looks increasingly like the brand stepping into it.
The unveiling of the 2026 GreenEDGE Cycling kit continues to refine a visual language that already feels established. This is MAAP’s second year supplying Jayco-AlUla, Liv AlUla Jayco and Hagens Berman Jayco, and the confidence of that sophomore effort shows. Where last season was about arrival, this year is about consolidation.
The familiar Aurora colourway returns, but it has been sharpened with a new flame motif that gives the kit more movement and tension at speed. It remains instantly recognisable, which in a peloton increasingly crowded with safe gradients and boring block colours is no small thing. More importantly, it still looks like MAAP.
Behind the visuals sits a quietly serious technical story. The AARTERO Flyte fabric system introduced last season has been further refined across race speedsuits and time trial applications, with improved thermoregulation and aerodynamic efficiency shaped directly by rider feedback. The addition of the Elements Pro Race Jacket rounds out a system designed for racing reality, not catalogue fantasy.
Is MAAP now the most visually progressive brand in the pro peloton? With this second GreenEDGE chapter, it's starting to look that way.
Next up: A look back at MAAP and GreenEDGE's 2025 kit.
