While their teammates were combating the rain in the Tour of Romandie, BMC’s George Hincapie, Brent Bookwalter and Chris Butler have been putting in the miles around Greenville. Hincapie recently returned from his European spring campaign of Milan-San Remo, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders and Pari-Roubaix. Now he is preparing for the upcoming Amgen Tour of …
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Brent Bookwalter interview from Paris-Nice
Brent Bookwalter of Athens, Georgia is part of BMC’s Paris-Nice squad. Today, stage 6, was critical in the eight-day race. The two stages preceding this 27 kilometer effort were tough – each contained seven categorized climbs. The true contenders of the race were now surfacing and the time trial was either going to cement their …
Hincapie starts his European racing season
The Greenville Spring Training Series is not just three weekends of racing but an opportunity to see where’s your fitness. With two weekends of racing completed there is just the River Fall course and the final Donaldson Center to be contested. However one person is going to take their fitness gained from two weekends of …
John Murphy at Tour of Qatar – Video Interview
Racing in the Tour of Qatar is Athens, Georgia resident John Murphy of BMC Racing Team. Murphy, known as one of the team’s sprinters, is the go to guy in the closing kilometers of a race. However, today was the prologue of this Middle East race – a gut busting 2.7 kilometer effort which included …
Chris Butler’s BMC impec
Second year professional cyclist and Greenville resident Chris Butler is in Spain preparing for the 2011 racing season. As a member of the BMC team, Butler is lucky enough to have at his disposal the new impec model bike. In the recent VeloNews Buyer’s Guide, BMC discloses that the impec is made entirely by robots, …