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In this episode we’re inside the Impec Lab to track the history of the brand-new Speedmachine, how the project came about and also chat to Red Bull Advanced Technologies—yep, of Formula 1 fame—to find out what their role in the 5-year development of this bike was.

For this episode, we meet the six riders that make up No Borders Gravel Team, a collective of riders that declare an equal love for gravel as they do for the daily grind. All with their own story.

In this episode, Jonty works his magic to get a guided tour of this highly classified location, tucked away in the dark corners of the Impec Lab, where some of the most groundbreaking, and victory-making BMC bikes are held.

An interview with two legends. After almost two decades in the pro peloton, AG2R Citroën team riders Michi Schär and 2016 Olympic Champion Greg van Avermaet are calling an end to their incredible careers. Sit down, make a drink, and join in with this discussion between friends, full of untold stories and old memories.

In this episode of the Riders Digest podcast we head back inside BMC's renowned Impec Lab to get familiar with the brand’s Masterpiece or Mpc series, a set of bikes created with perfection in mind.

For this episode of the Riders Digest Podcast, we chat with Stephen Barrett, Sport Scientist from AG2R Citroën Team to find out just how hard a Grand Tour really is. From altitude and preparation through to guiding riders through the race while tracking vital data, Stephen gives us the inside line on how tough Grand Tours really are.

After our previous episode at Unbound and FNLD GRVL, it’s time to formally introduce the bike at the centre of the action, the BMC Kaius 01 ONE – a rig that is setting new performance standards.

This episode is all about being out of the office and on location as we take you on a journey into the two biggest gravel races in the world with AG2R Citroen's Larry Warbasse, Michael Garrison, Brent Bookwalter, Ulrich Bartholmoes and the No Borders Gravel Team!

A dropper post that drops itself? Wait what? How? Why? Over a number of years the geniuses within the Impec Lab developed a technology that perfectly sums up the power they provide. Namely, Autodrop. A dropper post that doesn't require a rider's weight to drop, saving power lap after lap. Yet still weighs no more than an energy bar.

What makes a factory team different from any other bike racing team? Are there any actual advantages? Who are the new Team BMC riders? What does a World Cup weekend look like? To answer all these questions, we headed over to Nové Město na Moravě to get right in the action at the first round of the 2023 UCI MTB XC World Cup to meet the riders and staff from the newly created Team BMC.

In this episode – the first in a new micro-series for the Riders Digest powered by BMC – , we take a deep dive into the creativity and chaos that is housed within the walls of BMC's top-secret Impec Lab.

With every race season the age of the professional rider entering the WorldTour peloton is getting younger and younger but at the same time, the demands are getting higher with a packed racing schedule as well as the level of professionalism ever increasing. So, we caught up with two legends of the peloton, Fabian Cancellara & Axel Merckx to discuss this in more detail and how their two teams fit into this landscape, namely Tudor Procycling and the renowned Axeon Hermans Berman.