TOUR·KINETIC

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Team Visma | Lease a Bike

Deliver Jonas Vingegaard a third yellow jersey and the first Giro-Tour double since 1998 — starting with a statement win in Barcelona's opening team time trial.

Country
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Bike
Cervélo S5 / R5 (P5 for time trials)
Manager
Richard Plugge (CEO/general manager); Grischa Niermann (head of racing), with Marc Reef as leading race coach at this Tour
Founded
1984
Division
WorldTour

The 2026 kit

For July 2026 Team Visma | Lease a Bike sets aside its trademark yellow for a one-off Tour de France jersey called 'The Architect' — a predominantly BLACK jersey covered nearly edge-to-edge in a tone-on-tone golden-yellow 'Gaudí sketchbook' print: fine hand-drawn architectural linework with clusters of honeycomb hexagons, catenary/reticulated arch studies, mosaic fragments and cursive handwritten annotations (including plan labels like 'Plànol' and 'Mosaico'), as if Antoni Gaudí's design sketches were drawn in gold ink on black fabric — a nod to the Barcelona Grand Départ. The gold print reads brighter yellow in dense honeycomb clusters and deeper ochre in the fine linework. FRONT: an oversized white all-caps VISMA wordmark spans the chest, with the white lowercase 'lease a bike' wordmark (its tilted-b forming a bike glyph) directly below on the belly. On the wearer's right chest, small white 'nimbl' (higher, near the shoulder seam) and 'cervélo' (just above the big VISMA) wordmarks; a tiny white VISMA script sits beside the zip top, and the white Cervélo 'é' swirl icon caps the top of the right shoulder. On the wearer's left chest: a small white Mistral AI logo (pixel-M mark plus 'Mistral AI' text), beneath it a tiny 'YB. yellow b.' mark and the small white UCI WORLD TEAM lockup; a tiny 'lease a bike' script sits beside the zip top on this side. COLLAR: bright yellow stand-up collar printed with small black 'VISMA' (wearer's right) and 'lease a bike' (wearer's left) texts — national champions substitute their own bands (e.g. Wout van Aert's Belgian black-yellow-red collar and cuffs). SLEEVES: same black/gold sketch print, with a white 'SKIL' wordmark on the outside of both sleeves and a vertical white 'VISMA / lease a bike' stack along the shoulder seam; each sleeve ends in a bright yellow cuff band with a small black SRAM wordmark. SIDES: yellow side panels run under the arms down the flanks, carrying a dark navy vertical 'Rabobank' wordmark. BACK: bright yellow collar; below it a small yellow hexagonal (honeycomb-shaped) 'Team Visma | Lease a Bike' crest; large white VISMA and 'lease a bike' wordmarks across the upper back; a smaller white 'JUMBO' wordmark below them and a white 'nimbl.cc' mark at the lower back. SHORTS: black bib shorts with a white stacked 'VISMA / lease a bike' wordmark on the outer thigh, a small white 'cervélo' near the leg hem, and (as on the team's regular 2026 bibs) additional small white marks including Rabobank and The Athlete's FoodCoach. Bikes are yellow-and-black Cervélos; road and TT helmets are bright yellow Giro models (van Aert wears his personal white Red Bull helmet; Vingegaard a white/red Danish-champion Bygma helmet). CONTEXT: the whole July kit is a one-off inspired by Gaudí's honeycomb structures symbolising the team's collective 'bee' identity. Fans chose the final design in a 21–23 April 2026 public vote (100,000+ votes in three days): the dark black-and-gold edition won with 52% and is the race jersey; the narrowly losing light edition (cream/ivory base with the same print in subtle gold, dark navy-black logos, yellow collar, black shoulder tips) becomes the team's first-ever 'Rest Day Jersey', worn on the Tour's rest days. Pre-order fans could have their name integrated into an 'architectural signature' element. SKIL (partner since April 2025, renewed for 2026) is on both sleeves; Mistral AI (added late February 2026) is on the chest; the kit is made by Nimbl, which took over race apparel from AGU on 1 July 2025 — 2026 is its first full-season kit.

VismaLease a BikeCervéloNimblMistral AISKILSRAMRabobankJumboyellow b.

The Car

leadership and staff shaping the Visma | Lease a Bike Tour
Executive Richard Plugge paper-collage staff portrait
Richard Plugge
CEO / general manager
Visma | Lease a Bike
Coaching Marc Reef paper-collage staff portrait
Marc Reef
Race coach / Tour sporting lead
Visma | Lease a Bike

The Eight

the Visma | Lease a Bike Tour squad
🇩🇰 RIDER Jonas Vingegaard paper-collage portrait
Jonas Vingegaard
GC leader
29 yrsGC
🇺🇸 RIDER Matteo Jorgenson paper-collage portrait
Matteo Jorgenson
Co-leader / last mountain lieutenant and plan-B GC
27 yrsGC
🇫🇷 RIDER Bruno Armirail paper-collage portrait
Bruno Armirail
Rouleur / TTT engine and valley domestique
32 yrsTime trial
🇧🇪 RIDER Victor Campenaerts paper-collage portrait
Victor Campenaerts
Road captain / rouleur and crosswind specialist
34 yrsTime trial
🇺🇸 RIDER Sepp Kuss paper-collage portrait
Sepp Kuss
Chief climbing domestique
31 yrsClimber
🇮🇹 RIDER Edoardo Affini paper-collage portrait
Edoardo Affini
TT locomotive / flat-stage engine
30 yrsTime trial
🇳🇴 RIDER ★ U26 Per Strand Hagenes paper-collage portrait
Per Strand Hagenes
Rouleur-domestique / classics-style bodyguard (Tour debutant)
22 yrsClassics
🇮🇹 RIDER ★ U26 Davide Piganzoli paper-collage portrait
Davide Piganzoli
Climbing domestique (Tour debutant, replacing Wout van Aert)
23 yrsClimber