{"id":215164,"date":"2025-10-21T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:47:09","slug":"uci-reveals-teams-for-2026-road-cycling-season-confirming-bike-change-for-tom-pidcocks-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215164\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI reveals teams for 2026 road cycling season, confirming bike change for Tom Pidcock\u2019s squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCI has published the list of women\u2019s and men\u2019s professional road teams that have submitted the essential registration documents for the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Candidates had until 15 October to submit their registration files, and the UCI is now assessing the applications.<\/p>\n<p>While many team names remain the same as the 2025 season, the UCI\u2019s list reveals Tom Pidcock\u2019s team will start using Pinarello bicycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now called Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, it was rumoured that Pidcock\u2019s squad would be switching to Pinarello from Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the team, Pidcock has ridden Scott bikes on the road but stuck to Pinarello for off-road racing, most recently riding a Pinarello Dogma GR at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/features\/pro-bike\/2025-uci-gravel-world-championships-pro-bike-gallery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gravel World Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pinarello\u2019s owner is Ivan Glasenberg, a mining billionaire who also has a controlling interest in the squad\u2019s other sponsor Q36.5, the Italian cycling clothing company. So, Pinarello now sponsoring the team can be seen as Glasenberg aligning his interests.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Geraint-Thomas_Pinarello-Dogma-F_20250702_SvB_A6300_BR_0903-1-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Geraint Thomas' Pinarello Dogma F for the 2025 Tour de France.\" class=\"wp-image-929209\"\/>Pinarello will now equip two teams with its bikes. Simon von Bromley \/ Our Media<\/p>\n<p>Ineos Grenadiers confirmed last week that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/ineos-grenadiers-2026-bike-sponsor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continue its partnership with Pinarello<\/a> for another three years, following speculation earlier in the season that it may be forced to find a new supplier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This also raises the question of whether Scott will provide another team with bikes. Scott hasn&#8217;t yet responded to our request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list of team names will also attract attention, after Israel\u2013Premier Tech revealed it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/israel-premier-tech-will-change-its-name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change the team&#8217;s name<\/a>. Factor and Premier Tech threatened to withdraw their sponsorship of the squad, following continued protests at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/pro-palestine-organisers-explain-why-theyre-disrupting-la-vuelta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UCI\u2019s list reveals that Israel\u2013Premier Tech is listed as Cycling Academy, but a spokesperson for the team told BikeRadar this won\u2019t be the name. Instead, it is a placeholder for the UCI registration prior to announcing a new name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UCI, cycling\u2019s international governing body, says the applications are broken down into:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>16 women\u2019s teams for registration as UCI Women&#8217;s WorldTeams<br \/>\n20 men\u2019s teams for registration as UCI WorldTeams<br \/>\n6 women\u2019s teams for registration as UCI Women&#8217;s ProTeams<br \/>\n14 men\u2019s teams for registration as UCI ProTeams<\/p>\n<p>Not all teams submitted the essential documents by the deadline last week, but the UCI has included them in the above count. \u201cHowever, they still have the possibility to rectify their situation before the end of the registration process, which would enable them to be registered for the 2026 season,\u201d the UCI said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final list of teams registered for the upcoming season will be published on 10 December.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UCI has published the list of women\u2019s and men\u2019s professional road teams that have submitted the essential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-215164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}