Cyclingtips, Michael Better, 16 July 2016
Posted by: Bitossi

BMC Racing’s Brent Bookwalter entered the Tour de France on a high. He finished third overall at the Amgen Tour of California in May, and was selected to the U.S. men’s road team for the Olympic games alongside teammate Taylor Phinney, who is not riding the Tour, a week prior to the start of the Grande Boucle.

Velo News, Andrew Hood, 15 May 2015
Posted by: Bitossi

It’s a different kind of Giro d’Italia for BMC Racing this year. Perennial favorite Cadel Evans is happily enjoying retirement, so instead of riding full-out for the pink jersey, the U.S.-registered team brings a new, flowing dynamic to the season’s first grand tour.

Pez Cyclingnews, Alastair Hamilton, 26 February 2015
Posted by: Bitossi

Two interviews for the price of one as Alastair Hamilton has a very long chat with two of the most experienced American riders on the WorldTour. BMC’s Peter Stetina and Brent Bookwalter were recently in Spain and PEZ had to get all the behind the scenes info on the ‘Super Team’.

Velo News, Caley Fretz, 23 February 2015
Posted by: Bitossi

Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) was there when mud-caked glasses and silt-filled eyes dropped visibility to zero on Kebler Pass at the USA Pro Challenge last August. He was at the Giro d’Italia, too, where the rain seemed endless until it turned to snow, and controversy, atop the Stelvio.

CyclingNews, Sadhbh O'Shea, 30 December 2014
Posted by: Bitossi

Brent Bookwalter has been with the BMC Racing Team ever since he turned professional in 2008. He has seen the team go from underdogs to Tour de France champions. Now heading into his eighth professional season, the 30-year-old hopes that he can play a bigger role in the American squad.

RoadCycling UK, Colin Henrys, 8 May 2014
Posted by: Bitossi

All eyes may be on the pre-race favourites with the Giro d’Italia just a day away but behind every team leader there’s a committed squad of domestiques.

Pez Cyclingnews, Edmond Hood, 3 June 2013
Posted by: Bitossi

Some say that last is the worst spot to finish a race; but there’s also a school of thought which says second place is the worst. And some would say that the worst races to finish second in are National or World Championships; the winner gets to wear the champion’s jersey for a whole year – the runner-up gets the silver medal to toss in a drawer, somewhere. BMC’s Brent Bookwalter had to endure that feeling twice in the one week. He finished second to big chrono specialist Tom Zirbel (Team Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) in the US Elite Time Trial Championship. And he was second again, to Freddie Rodriguez (Jelly Belly Cycling p/b Kenda) just days later in the US Elite Road Race Championship. Bookwalter has a good record in the Nationals; he was second in the U23 TT and third in the U23 cyclo-cross Championships in 2005 in the colours of Advantage Benefits-Endeavour. And the following year, with Priority Health he won the National U23 Road Race Championship and was silver medallist in the Time Trial Championship.

velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 13 July 2011
Posted by: lucybears

In 2001, Brent Bookwalter asked Cadel Evans for an autograph at a mountain bike race when he was 15 years old and Evans was just about to transition onto the road scene. Flash forward a decade, and Bookwalter has quietly become one of Evans’ most trusted lieutenants.

velonews.com, Brian Holcombe, 28 June 2011
Posted by: lucybears

Brent Bookwalter will start his second Tour de France, his third grand tour overall, on Saturday. A stage winner at the Tour of Utah and a multiple-time collegiate national champion, Bookwalter broke out in Europe with a second-place in the Giro d’Italia prologue last year.

uscyclingreport.com, Rebecca Reza , 20 May 2011
Posted by: lucybears

Stage 5 from Seaside to Paso Robles saw Jeff Louder in the breakaway and Taylor Phinney finish eighth, but it was a crash by Brent Bookwalter that made the biggest news for the BMC Racing Team at the Amgen Tour of Caliornia. We had interviewed him before the start of the race.

pezcyclingnews.com, Daniel Lee, 17 November 2010
Posted by: lucybears

The highlight of the season for Michigan native Brent Bookwalter was on the first day of his first grand tour, at the Giro in May, where he finished second in the 8.4 km Stage One time trial, just 2 seconds behind Olympic pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins.

Pez Cyclingnews, Daniel Lee, 16 November 2010
Posted by: Bitossi

It’s November. The leaves are off the trees, and – for many of us in colder climes – the turbo trainer already is set up in the basement. But think back to spring and summer. Think back to an impressive breakout season by the BMC Racing Team’s Brent Bookwalter, who completed the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France on his first attempts.

Velonews, Andrew Hood, 4 June 2010
Posted by: Tommy Ventoux

Two of America’s most promising young riders made impressive grand tour debuts during the Giro d’Italia. Brent Bookwalter (BMC) and Craig Lewis (HTC-Columbia) each made it to Verona on Sunday in a remarkably challenging and grueling Giro d’Italia as each man’s first three-week stage race.

pezcyclingnews.com, Edmond Hood, 24 March 2010
Posted by: lucybears

American Brent Bookwalter has quietly climbed the ladder to the top echelon of the sport, where he now sits poised to take part in some of the greatest events cycling has to offer. Milano-Sanremo was merely the first in what should be a long series of big days in 2010 for the BMC talent.

podiuminsight.com, Lyne Lamoureux, 15 January 2010
Posted by: lucybears

last week Brent Bookwalter was juggling his training schedule to accommodate the winter conditions in North Carolina. He talked about his goals for the year, his tentative schedule which does include a Grand Tour and his move to Girona.

podiuminsight.com, Lyne Lamoureux, 24 September 2009
Posted by: lucybears

Even though his year started in February at the Tour of California, the season is not over for Brent Bookwalter of the BMC Racing Team. He will be part of the 9-rider American squad that will take on the world in the road race at the UCI World Championships this Sunday.

podiuminsight.com, Lyne Lamoureux, 11 April 2009
Posted by: lucybears

Two years ago, on April 8 2007, during a stage of the Tryptique Monts et Chateaux, Brent Bookwalter crashed into lightpole and fractured his femur. Fast forward to the present where Bookwalter is in France getting ready to race Paris-Roubaix with his BMC Pro Racing Team.

podiuminsight.com, Lyne Lamoureux, 10 April 2009
Posted by: lucybears

Two years ago, on April 8 2007, during a stage of the Tryptique Monts et Chateaux, Brent Bookwalter crashed into lightpole and fractured his femur. Fast forward to the present where Bookwalter is in France getting ready to race Paris-Roubaix with his BMC Pro Racing Team.