This year's UCI World Championships in Glasgow will be the first "mega-championship" where all cycling disciplines will be held simultaneously.

The championships will undoubtedly be a celebration of cycling in Glasgow and throughout Scotland, and Canyon has honored Scotland's rich heritage by offering a tartan check theme to the riders who will compete on their respective race routes for the coveted rainbow jersey. The series features a limited edition tartan check-themed paint job on the jerseys.

While the decades-long quest for tartan paint appears to have come to an end, long weights, skyhooks, and baseboard ladders still abound.

Tartan itself is described in the Oxford dictionary as "a pattern of squares and lines of different colors and widths, intersected at an angle of 90 degrees.

We also understand that it is quite difficult to fit a pattern around the curved tubes of a bicycle frame and make it look good.

Canyon has a history of wild paint jobs associated with big events. Most recently, it provided the polka-dot Ultimate CFr for Cassia Niewiadoma at the Tour de France Femme, and its animated Annemiek (van Fruten) was the center of attention at the Tokyo Olympics. The latest tartan-checked bike looks equally impressive, but Scotland doesn't seem to have a national fish with a long name associated with it.

We are told that the custom bikes will feature tartan plaid in a variety of colors and designs and riders' names, and that each model will be ridden by at least one rider in a variety of disciplines.

On the road, the custom bikes will be ridden by Mathieu van der Pol and Jasper Philipsen for the men and Chloe Dygert and Annemiek van Fruten for the women.

Various mountain bike riders also ride custom bikes, most notably Australian downhill favorite Troy Brosnan, whose frame is shown below.

Mathieu van der Pol will also compete in the road and MTB XC events of the World Championships, becoming the only rider to use custom tartan bikes in two different disciplines.

Rumor has it that Canyon will also unveil its new Speedmax CFR track bike around this event. It is expected that this frame will have the same tartan check detailing, but no details are available at this time.

No word on whether any of the designs will be available to the public, but keep your eyes peeled for your very own tartan check beauty.