After a solid rookie season, Max Walker is ready to race into his second year with EF Education-EasyPost. The soft-spoken 24-year-old from the Isle of Man is fast developing into a key rider for us in the classics and has proven himself in hard stage races. He raced his first Monuments in 2025. Milano-Sanremo, the Ronde van Vlaanderen, and Paris-Roubaix whet his appetite for our sport’s biggest one-day races, but Max’s great dream is to ride the Tour.

He got into the sport at Dot Tilbury’s racing league on the Isle of Man when he was a child and heard all of the stories of Manx legends like Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh racing in the big leagues; the Tour is the biggest race of them all.

To get there, Max has moved to Europe to be closer to his teammates. He has great friends in Girona and Andorra and enjoys riding with them in the sun.

A versatile talent with a big motor, Max won two stages in the Tour of Japan, took a stage victory in the Sibiu Cycling Tour, and secured two podium places at the elite British nationals when he was still a U23. With the benefit of a year’s experience in the pro peloton, this is going to be a big year for Max.

Marijn van den Berg started cycling when he was seven. His dad would take him and his older brother out on the roads near their home, which was just outside the Dutch city of Utrecht. For a while, Marijn wasn’t sure if he had much talent for racing, but he enjoyed getting the most out of himself on the bike. He rose through the ranks, riding for Dutch teams, before moving to France in 2021. That season, he had a breakout year, winning eight races with the juniors, including two stages of the Tour de l’Avenir. He is a strong sprinter who can get to the finish of hard-fought hilly races.

In 2022, his first season in the WorldTour, he earned a number of top-ten places. In 2023, he put to use all that he learned from his rookie season, taking wins at Trofeo Ses Salines–Alcudia and stage wins at the Tour of Poland and La Route d'Occitanie–La Dépêche du Midi. He earned the sprinter's jersey at Région Pays de la Loire Tour and La Route d'Occitanie–La Dépêche du Midi and finished his first grand tour at the Vuelta a España.

In 2024, he won his first WorldTour race, out of a bunch sprint on the fourth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, and won his first stage race, the Région Pays de la Loire Tour, where he also took home the sprinters’ jersey and two stage wins. He raced his first Tour de France and was consistently up there in sprints, duking it out with the fastest riders in the race.

After a powerful early season campaign, crowned with a win at the Trofeo ses Salines and GC podium at the Tour de la Provence, Marijn battled through the first nine stages of the 2025 Tour de France before injuries sustained in an early-race crash forced him to stop. He returned later that summer and sprinted to a number of strong results.

He is determined to make 2026 his best year yet. Marijn’s dream is to win a Tour de France stage. The Dutchman now lives in Monaco and trains in the mountains along the Côte d’Azur.

Aussie talent Alastair MacKellar is excited for his second season in the WorldTour.

The 2023 Australian under-23 road and time trial champion was a consistent competitor in his rookie year. After making his debut at the Tour Down Under, Alastair proved that he can be a valuable teammate in some of the hardest races on the calendar. Competing in events like Milano-Sanremo and the Critérium du Dauphiné gave him confidence and experience that he will build on in 2026, as he works towards his long-term ambition of racing the Tour de France.

That dream began in Australia, where Alastair first saw the Tour Down Under. His dad was a cyclist and would take Alastair and his mates to see the race from the roadside. As soon as he saw the peloton race past, Alastair knew that was where he wanted to be.

He tore through the youth and junior ranks and at 19 moved to Europe to pursue a pro contract. A win on the fourth stage of the Alpes Isère Tour in 2024, as well as top class results in races such as Flèche Ardennaise and the Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta-Mont Blanc, earned him his spot on our squad.

For his second year as a pro, Alastair wants to keep his momentum rolling. He will focus on controlling what he can control and making the most of every chance he gets.

He still spends his winters in Australia, hanging out on the beach and rallying cars with his mates. Before the end of the Aussie summer, he’ll head back to Europe, where he now lives, just outside of Nice, France. He has found beautiful mountain roads to ride there, alongside a great group of training buddies, and lots of sun and sea. It’s a great place for Alastair to unwind and get ready to throw himself into all of the WorldTour action.

In his first year in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Danish classics star Kasper Asgreen added a Giro d’Italia stage win to his impressive list of victories, which includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, E3 SaxoBank Classic, and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, as well as a stage at the Tour de France and four Danish time trial titles.

Kasper joined our team because he was impressed with our squad’s attacking style. That’s how Kasper loves to race, too – when the peloton explodes, and he has to make split-second decisions on the fly, pick his moment to go, and then ride with everything he has to the line, he comes into his own. That’s why he loves the spring classics and hard breakaways.

Kasper learned how to race when he was a kid in Denmark, where he started out riding for the local club in Kolding, the small university city where he now lives with his wife and which he will always call home. Before he took up cycling, Kasper rode horses. From the age of four, he competed in dressage. He still draws on his childhood equestrian experience now as a pro bike racer. It taught him discipline: the value of showing up and putting in the work, no matter what.

Bike racing was tough for him at first. Kasper didn’t win a race for his first three years. He loved the sport nonetheless and was soon making fast progress. Now, he is one of the best one-day racers in the world.

Still, Kasper’s love of the sport is what drives him. Being a pro comes with pressures and hard times, but he knows that it is a privilege to be a bike racer. He races better when he is enjoying the sport, and he enjoys the sport most on a winning team.