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Lachlan Morton is leaving EF Education-EasyPost after 2026
Lachlan Morton is leaving EF Education-EasyPost after the 2026 season. His win at Three Peaks Cyclocross was his last race in the team's colors — "Three Peaks was my last time pinning on a number with EF."
What this means
EF Education-EasyPost loses the rider who built the team's self-supported-adventure identity.
This isn't a transfer — it's Morton choosing routes over a team's race program. He already stopped road racing for EF after the 2023 Australian National Championships while sticking to gravel events for the team, so this split formalizes a drift that had been underway for years. "The appeal for me is the history of it... there's this opportunity to ride a horse with a mochila full of mail through the night for 75 miles flat out, across remote, gnarly terrain that no one else has been crossing." He already flags the Nevada stretch between Salt Lake City and Carson City as the hardest part — remote, exposed, and solo.
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