On Thursday in Santa Monica, California, three professional riders named Williams – Justin, Cory and Tyler – will start their 2026 reunion for L39ION of Los Angeles. Together with 10-time Tour de France stage winner and three-time cyclocross world champion Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), the group will lead a sold-out group experience, the second of two Crimson Bull Rollouts.
In a nod to the early days of the US-based powerhouse co-ed crew, Justin Williams confirmed that his brother Cory and all-rounder Tyler, no relation, will rejoin the L39ION squad in 2026 after two seasons at Golden State Blazers (beforehand Miami Blazers). The lads’s crew will even return to UCI Continental standing, the place the crew competed within the first three seasons, 2021-2023.
The Blazers, a US domestic-elite crew managed by the brother’s firm Williams Racing Growth, is not going to proceed subsequent yr. A 3rd crew, Austin Outlaws, which was funded for 2 years, closed this yr.
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“We tried to offer lots of alternative with completely different groups, however we’re going again to 1 crew for subsequent yr. It is sort of a reunion, Cory and Tyler coming again. We’re getting the band again collectively,” Justin Williams informed Cyclingnews.
The entities for the group experience went quick; a number of hundred reservations have been confirmed in beneath two hours. It has been a steadier construct for Justin to determine to return to his authentic roots for one crew, he and his brother signalling the restart at a Crimson Bull Rollout.
“We now have three deliberate for subsequent yr, probably 4,” Justin stated about Crimson Bull Rollouts. “I feel we’re getting again to our mission of constructing group, and simply doing cool stuff.”
L39ION has been recognized to strive their hand at artistic fan engagement and occasions. In 2021, they hosted a criterium in downtown Sacramento, Into The Lion’s Den, additionally received by Justin Williams.
Earlier this yr, he collaborated with Crimson Bull to carry the inaugural Crimson Bull Roundabout Rumble, an invitational, one-day bike race execs in Indianapolis, Indiana, received by L39ION of Los Angeles riders Kendall Ryan and Justin.
The ladies’s crew will compete as a US home elite squad in 2026, with Holly Breck returning, and joined by three riders from the Blazers – Samantha Schneider, Joyce Monton and Alexandrine Obrand. Ryan, who has received the elite ladies’s USPro Criterium title thrice, was not confirmed to return to L39ION of LA for a fifth season.
The lads’s crew will add Belizian riders Jaylen Briceno and Jyven Gonzalez, and return Jason Paez beside the Williams trio. Youthful Williams brother Cory received the Caribbean Championships street race in 2024 and this previous season received each occasions at Belize Street Nationals. Tyler, a northern California native who turns 31 in mid-November, received two silver medals at USPro Street Nationals in 2023, silver within the street race and bronze within the criterium, when he was final with L39ION of Los Angeles.
Different riders, Justin Williams confirmed, could be introduced within the coming weeks.
