Liv Factory Racing competes at the highest level of cross-country mountain bike racing. Every week on the UCI World Cup circuit, the margin between the podium and the pack is measured in seconds. The terrain punishes anything less than purpose-built. The kit has to perform.
For 2026, the team welcomes a new rider to that lineup: Maddie Munro, one of the fastest young cross-country racers to come out of the American system. Her elite season opens February 28 at the Puerto Rico MTB Cup in Rincón. She will be wearing Cuore.
Liv Factory Racing
Liv Factory Racing is the women's UCI World Cup cross-country team under the Giant family, competing at the highest level of XCO and XCC racing worldwide. The team has been a Cuore partner for several years, racing in the Gold Pro line through some of the most demanding conditions the sport offers.
The 2026 roster runs four deep:
Maddie Munro joins as the American addition, bringing U23 credentials and a trajectory that points upward. Ronja Blöchlinger, the Swiss rider, delivered a third-place XCC finish at Mont-Sainte-Anne last season aboard the prototype Liv Pique. Marin Lowe represents Canada on the roster. Tyler Jacobs, the South African talent, took the U23 XCC win at Lake Placid in 2025 and recently claimed the Elite Women's South African Road Championship.
It is a team built around emerging talent and upward trajectories. The kind of riders who are still getting faster. The kind of demands that require kit built without compromise.
Maddie Munro
Maddie grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and found her way to competitive cycling through NICA, the national interscholastic league that has become the proving ground for American mountain bike talent. By 16 she was racing at World Championships. By 20 she had a bronze medal from Junior Worlds in cyclocross.
The U23 years confirmed what the junior results suggested. Three consecutive U23 XCO National titles. A Pan-American Championship. Five World Cup podiums in 2024 alone. Five years with Trek Factory Racing building one of the strongest developmental résumés in American cross-country, culminating in her first elite season last year.
Now she enters her second elite year with a new team. The competition stays hard. The margins stay small. The kit has to be right.
The Jersey
The Gold Pro Jersey is built around a single principle: remove everything that does not make you faster.
The main body uses an ultra-light fabric with a premium elastane blend that manages heat on climbs without losing structure on descents. Set-in sleeves cut from Italian aero fabric reduce drag while allowing full range of motion in the attack position.
Details are where race kit separates from everything else. The collar sits low and flat, no bunching under a helmet strap. Bonded sleeve cuffs and front hem eliminate stitching bulk. The rear hem combines woven elastic with a silicone gripper to keep the jersey locked in place when you are out of the saddle, driving through roots and rock gardens.
Three open rear pockets sit where they should: accessible at speed, secure enough to trust with a gel or a rain jacket.
This is the jersey our World Cup athletes reach for when results matter.
The Partnership
We build kit for teams that cannot afford for it to fail. Liv Factory Racing is one of them. World Cup racing does not tolerate kit that fades in the wash, falls apart at the seams, or fits well in the parking lot but fails on the third lap. The Gold Pro line exists for exactly this: custom team kit built to perform when the race is on the line.
The 2026 season will put it to the test.
