Murphy’s Law can be typically stated as: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." So far, BMC Racing’s new recruit who shares the same surname has been defying the pessimist adage, slowly but assiduously working his way to the top level of the sport.
The BMC Racing Team has its sights set on making a good first impression in its ProTeam debut Sunday in the Santos Tour Down Under.
Taylor Phinney plans to tackle the spring classics and the Tour of California in his pro debut, but BMC promises no pressure, saying it's all about gaining experience.
The future may look back to 2010 and say that was the year American cross-country racing started to make a comeback.
Swiss bicycle company to be title sponsor and main backer of a team consisting of five U23 Americans.
Unlike the US-based road and Under-23 teams, BMC Racing's MTB team will be based in Switzerland
The American is pumped for Paris-Nice and the spring classics, an undecided on defending his world pursuit title
The former Motorola, CSC and Lampre pro will scout and develop new talent for the team
BMC Racing's Jim Ochowicz talks with VeloNews about signing Taylor Phinney and the team's role in developing young riders.
Contract stability heading into 2012 Olympics was paramount for American phenom.
Twenty-year-old Taylor Phinney has opted to ride the 2011 season as a member of BMC, team president Jim Ochowicz announced Wednesday.
The racemachine is built (you guessed it) with racers in mind. It’s got similar geometry and frame shapes as the top-end timemachine, but the seatstays are built to be thicker and stiffer. The overall structure of the bike is a bit beefier and the racemachine uses a standard seatpost clamp instead of the expanding wedge post of the teammachine.
Riders boasting two of the most distinctive jerseys in the peloton – George Hincapie and Cadel Evans – both return to action this weekend following some serious injuries.
George Hincapie, a veteran of 15 Tours de France, cooperates with Landis investigation, believes Evans can win Tour
A new generation of riders will get their first taste of big-time European racing next week as the latest crew of stagiaires enters the peloton for the second half of the season.
Less well-known than some of his contemporaries, 22-year-old Cole House will get his chance to shine, as a stagiaire for the BMC team.
The world road champ is feeling better, but plans to have his elbow checked out once more, just to be sure.
USA Cycling appeals to UCI for rules exemption so the team can compete
The American comes in 11th and says his goal is to help his BMC team all the way to Paris.
Cadel Evans looked decidedly less upbeat and confident the day before he begins his bid to relaunch his Tour de France career after a disappointing performance in 2009.
BMC introduces its newest frame at the Tour de France. The impec boasts in-house carbon weaving and highly tunable ride characteristics.
A strong performance in the Giro d’Italia earned Brent Bookwalter a trip to the Tour de France as he was included among the nine starting riders for BMC.
The BMC team re-instates former world champ Alessandro Ballan after an internal investigation finds no evidence of doping.
BMC Racing Team: Statement Regarding Investigation Initiated by UCI Through FFC against John Lelangue
Cadel Evans (BMC) is back in the pink jersey for the first time since he held it late in the 2002 Giro d’Italia. Evans was a relative newcomer to the road scene when he took the maglia rosa back then, only to lose it the next day in an infamous collapse in stage 17 to Folgaria. Racing the Giro for the first time since then, Evans says he’s now a different rider.
BMC Racing’s Mauro Santambrogio has the green light to return to competition after a preliminary internal investigation found no evidence that he was involved in doping at his former team, Lampre.
The BMC team has suspended Swiss rider Thomas Frei after he tested positive for EPO.
BMC's Cadel Evans wins 2010 Flèche Wallonne
The BMC team has suspended former world champion Alessandro Ballan after his name was among those under investigation in an ongoing Italian doping case.
Flanders Tech: BMC pro bikes
Just a few days in advance of the Tour of Flanders, BMC Racing Team chief mechanic Ian Sherburne assembled a new race bike for team captain George Hincapie. Friday marked Hincapie’s first look at the new rig, the bike he hopes will take him across the Flanders finish line first.
Local rider Jens Mouris of Vacansoleil broke from a 15-rider group in the final kilometers to take an 11-second solo win at the Dutch one-day Ronde van het Groene Hart. Belgian Nico Eckhour (An Post-Sean Kelly) won the field sprint for second, followed by Sep Vanmark (Topsport Vlaanderen).
BMC will be led by Italian Alessandro Ballan, who preceded Evans as world champion in 2008, with American George Hincapie, Dutchman Karsten Kroon and German Marcus Burghardt expected to play key roles. Americans Jeff Louder and Brent Bookwalter also will start.
Anthony Tan sits down with George Hincapie to talk about pre-race rituals, Paris-Roubaix, the Giro, Cadel Evans and his new team.
The beefed-up BMC squad began its racing season in earnest at the Tour of Qatar this week
Can world road champ Cadel Evans (BMC) win the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France before it’s too late? He thinks so.
Reporting to us from southern California, Neal Rogers managed to snap a few photos of the sparkling BMC bikes of the eponymous ProTour team.
Casey Gibson spent another day at BMC's January camp in California.
The BMC Pro Cycling Team may not be on the UCI’s list of ProTour teams, but the revamped Swiss/American squad appears to be more than ready to take on the world’s top races on the 2010 calendar.
Photographer Casey Gibson heads to Agoura Hills, California, for BMC's January training camp.
The BMC Racing Team says it has been granted Wild Card status by the UCI. which will allow the team, registered as a pro continental team, to be invited to participate in ProTour events.
A chat with George Hincapie about his new team, plus photos of his new BMC
Reigning world champion Cadel Evans has confirmed that he will ride the Giro d’Italia for the first time in eight years next May.
BMC has officially closed its roster for the 2010 season and promises to be competitive in all the major events.