Alison Jackson has just made one of the most unexpected transfers in women’s pro cycling

Alison Jackson has just made one of the most unexpected transfers in women’s pro cycling, moving from the polished, international glare of EF Education-Oatly to the utterly unmistakable French squad St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93. On paper, it’s a huge get for the French ProTeam: a reigning Canadian road champion, Paris-Roubaix Femmes winner, multiple grand tour stage victor, and a rider known as much for her big-race grit as her TikTok-level charisma. If you stacked up her palmarés—Paris-Roubaix 2023, stage wins at the Vuelta Femenina and Simac Ladies Tour, and three Canadian national titles—you’d expect Jackson to land at a WorldTour giant, not a team best known for punchy breakaways, bakery sponsors, and jerseys that… let’s just say, live on in memory.

But let’s talk about that jersey. Every peloton needs one: the kit you can spot from space, the design that makes you squint even on a grey, rainy day. For 2025, St Michel has taken their signature orange and amped it up with lime-green blocks and powdery splashes, topped off with a framed rooster logo and tricolour piping. The result: a vertical half-and-half that sits somewhere between a highlighter accident and a French patisserie window. It’s memorable, yes, and “impossible to miss in the bunch”— possibly for all the wrong reasons. No amount of baking nostalgia can make this busy, green-on-orange look a future classic.

Still, perhaps Jackson is exactly the right kind of star to pull off a kit this bold. I can see it now in her dances on the internet. But then again, she’s never been one for blending in, and her palmarés are already more eye-catching than any jersey design. One thing’s certain: between big wins, big rides, and now a very big kit statement, the cycling world will be watching to see if her results shine even brighter than her new threads.

what’s your thoughts on her move?