INTERVIEW: BMC’s John Murphy

This Sunday BMC’s John Murphy steps into the big league of professional cycling – racing Paris-Roubaix. This is not the Murphy’s first day at the rodeo and has ridden the Roubaix cobbles as a U-23 rider for the U.S. National team, finishing in 13th place in 2006. With the biggest one day race of the [...]

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Tour of Flanders photos from the locals

My G’ville buddies made the hop across the pond to Belgium, the home of the Classics, witnessing the Tour of Flanders first hand. And when your connections include Rich Hincapie of Hincapie Sportswear, clothing sponsor of BMC, you know they got hooked up. Randy Owens had his trigger finger on the camera and shot some [...]

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Steaming vids, Milan, the Giro and why it’s important to send a Vermont Teddy Bear

RadioShack Giro update at bottom of post Every morning for quite a while I have woken up and connected my laptop to watch streaming video of a European race. Sunday, out of habit, I started to hook up my laptop to my big screen when I realized there wasn’t anything to watch. However a Facebook [...]

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George Hincapie Interview: Paris-Roubaix or bust

With the first UCI race of the year in the books and training camp completed, BMC Racing’s George Hincapie returned home to Greenville, South Carolina for a bit of rest and relaxation before he begins his Spring campaign. However, that relaxation will be short lived as his first European race of the season is set [...]

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Hincapie Sportswear Development team training camp

This past weekend the 2010 Hincapie Development squad got together for the first time. Excitement had been building for the riders the week before and the U23 riders were chomping at the bit to throw a leg over the new Shimano Dura-Ace, Ritchey and Thomson equipped BMC Pro Machine. This was going to be my first [...]

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What it takes to outfit a pro cycling team

One of the advantages of riding with the Hincapie Sportswear staff is that I’ve gotten to see or hear the inside scoop on what’s going on with the BMC team. When I rolled into the office today for a ride, UPS had just dropped off a huge shipment of the first batch of team issue BMC [...]

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Pre-season training camps and getting back into shape

It is officially the beginning of the pre-season. Teams are coming together around the globe for training camps. There have been some early training camps, but those are mostly for the sake of the press and sponsors. The camps from here on out are getting a little more serious. Today I had an early evening [...]

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Side view of the national championship kit

This image comes courtesy of Craig Lewis‘ twitter account. As I looked at the image I pondered, “If I publish it will I find myself thrown out of Greenville (yes, the Hincapie’s do have that type of power)?” Then I figured, if it wasn’t me it would be someone else posting this photo. So for [...]

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BMC team roster

2010 BMC Racing Team Roster: Alessandro Ballan (IT), Chris Barton (USA), Chad Beyer (USA), Brent Bookwalter (USA), Marcus Burghardt(GER), Cadel Evans (AUS), Mathias Frank (SUI), Thomas Frei (SUI), George Hincapie (USA), Martin Kohler (SUI), Alexander Kristoff (NOR), Karsten Kroon (NED), Jeff Louder (USA), Steve Morabito (SUI), Alex Moos (SUI), John Murphy (USA), Scott Nydam (USA), [...]

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A love hate relationship with Fullerton

I racked my SRAM Rival equipped Scott ‘cross bike to the top of my Scion and headed to Orange County to ride the Fullerton Loop. My previous trip out to the Loop resulted in three flat tires. I don’t mind getting an occasional flat, but THREE in one ride! That was too much for me [...]

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