EF Professional Biking and Rapha have revealed their black “switch-out” package for the Giro d’Italia and the Giro d’Italia Girls.
The boys’s and girls’s groups, EF Training-EasyPost and EF Training-Cannondale, will put on the black package with pink and yellow highlights on the Italian Grand Tour as a substitute of their ordinary pink jersey, so as to not conflict with the maglia rosa.
With the basic classification chief carrying pink, EF’s riders lately have taken to carrying a distinct color to differentiate themselves. The boys’s Giro begins on Saturday, 4 Might, in Turin. Learn in regards to the Giro route right here.
There was no announcement or press launch to accompany the package launch, nevertheless, only a solitary Instagram submit.
Rapha wrote: Since 2020 Rapha and EF Professional Biking have taken to the stage on the Giro d’Italia in a sequence of switch-out package designs. As a result of EF’s signature pink clashes with the Corsa Rosa’s very personal chief’s jersey, the race organisers require the jersey to be distinguishable from the Maglia Rosa. This annual EF package switch-out has change into an attractive custom, asserting EF’s arrival at Europe’s most jaw-dropping grand tour.
“For EF’s Italian job the design for 2024 is a color reversal with reworked graphic phrases in ‘Italian’ comparable to VAI, In Bocca al Lupo and PIZZA PASTA SCALA FASTA. We can be releasing each a particular version Professional Group Coaching Jersey with the identical design as EF’s staff concern jersey and Professional Group Aero Jersey with a minimal, abstracted model of the design for a extra streamlined aesthetic.”
(Picture credit score: Rapha/Harry Talbot)
In earlier years, EF has worn plenty of radically totally different jerseys on the Giro, together with a 2020 effort in collaboration with skate model Palace which noticed the American staff fined by biking’s governing physique, the UCI.
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In 2021 and 2022, the staff wore jerseys with a black background however totally different spotlight colors, as this 12 months. Final 12 months, the staff wore a package consisting of yellow, inexperienced, blue, orange and black, to spotlight Rapha’s new Extra program.
EF head to Italy with a squad aiming for stage wins, together with Simon Carr, a latest winner on the Tour of the Alps, and former runner-up Esteban Chaves.
It’s miles from the primary time a staff have modified their package for a Grand Tour; Jumbo-Visma (now Visma-Lease a Bike) have usually modified their package on the Tour de France to keep away from clashes with the yellow jersey, whereas groups like Bora-Hansgrohe, dsm-firmenich PostNL, and Ineos Grenadiers have ridden in particular version kits for Grand Excursions.
EF aren’t alone in altering package for this 12 months’s Giro, too. Intermarché-Wanty are in a paler affair for the following three weeks, paying tribute to their Italian sponsor Vini Fantini.
