Why is that jersey upside down?
If you caught Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe's rest-day training spin today and thought the laundry had gone catastrophically wrong — no. That's the Lucky 13 kit, and every inverted logo is deliberate.
The backstory: this is the team's 13th Tour de France, and in cycling the number 13 comes with its own liturgy. Riders handed race number 13 traditionally pin it upside down to cancel the bad luck. The team leaned all the way in. Their 2026 Tour kit already carries a big flipped 13 as its central design feature, worked into a gradient that flows from white shoulders into deep blue.
Then, for the rest day — which happens to fall on July 13 — they went one step further: a limited-edition kit with the entire design turned upside down. Sponsor logos inverted, the color blocking rearranged, the white that normally sits across the shoulders relocated to the shorts. Remco Evenepoel, Florian Lipowitz and Jan Tratnik wore it for the launch, and Evenepoel logged a 50.8 km rest-day spin on the time-trial bike in the process. When racing resumes tomorrow, the kit goes back in the suitcase — it was a one-day statement.
Lucky 13, the receipts
The superstition has history on this team. Stage 13 first put the squad in the spotlight during their 2014 Tour debut. They won on stage 13 in 2018. And in 2019, with an upside-down 13 pinned to a jersey, Peter Sagan rode to his record-breaking green jersey in Paris.
See it on the road
The kit is officially out in the wild — you can spot it in the first-week onboard footage:
The team's own reveal is on Instagram — the full upside-down fit here and the rest-day launch shoot here.
Whether the charm works, we'll find out in the Alps — follow along on our Tour tracker. Racing resumes tomorrow at Le Lioran.
