Ineos Grenadiers White Shorts Cycling Tradition
- Ineos Grenadiers ignites debate with grayish white bib shorts, challenging one of pro cycling's most hallowed unwritten rules.
- ineos Grenadiers is causing a stir with its gray-white bibs.
- Ineos Grenadiers is vowing to shake things up in 2026, and it didn't take long when it rolled out a new-look team kit featuring white(ish) racing bib shorts.
Ineos Grenadiers ignites debate with grayish white bib shorts, challenging one of pro cycling’s most hallowed unwritten rules.
ineos Grenadiers is causing a stir with its gray-white bibs. (Photo: Gobik/Ineos)
Updated December 18, 2025 08:53AM
Ineos Grenadiers is vowing to shake things up in 2026, and it didn’t take long when it rolled out a new-look team kit featuring white(ish) racing bib shorts.
“Designed to stand out” – that’s the teaser line attached to Ineos Grenadiers’ latest kit reveal, and its difficult to argue with that assessment.
Up top, the kit’s not so bad. The jersey breaks from the team’s familiar red-and black-heavy look and replaces it with an orange-white contrast to make room for new co-sponsor Total Energies.
Not great, but at least it’s diffrent.
Then come the shorts.
Call it whiteish gray or grayish white, but the bibs are getting all the attention.
In elite road racing, white shorts have long been taboo. Among the old guard,white racing bibs are close to outright heresy.
The reasons are practical and aesthetic.
White shows everything (and we mean everything).And bibs pick up whatever the road kicks up, from dust, mud, grime, and worse.
As one pundit succinctly put it, “marginal stains.”
According to Velominati – self-appointed guardians of cycling’s unwritten code – the matter is already settled.
“Shorts should be black. Team-issue shorts should be black, with the possible exception of side-panels, which may match the rest of the team kit,” states Rule No. 14.
Ineos Grenadiers kit unveil blows up the internet
The reaction has been swift and, largely, negative