After a successful run that includes an Olympic title, Grand Tour Stage, World Championship, and Classics wins, BMC’s product team is revamping the Teammachine, the company’s top-of-the line race bike, for 2018. The next chapter in the Teammachine’s evolution offers more integration, a disc brake option, and increased stiffness and comfort.

No matter the brake style, the new Teammachine is heavily inspired by BMC’s Roadmachine which launched in 2016. So inspired, they look almost identical. In an email to Bicycling, Devin Riley, BMC’s North American director of marketing, explained the difference between the models: “The Teammachine… is the flagship race bike of the BMC road lineup. It’s designed to have a more agile/direct response to rider input and a racier geometry. It’s also targeted as the lightest bike in our lineup.”

Compared to the outgoing Teammachine, BMC’s engineers revamped the carbon layups, tube shapes, and tube sizes resulting in the new frame gaining minor claimed torsional and bottom bracket stiffness improvements.

Rider comfort has been improved through increasing the frame’s vertical compliance, as well as employing BMC’s “D” shaped seatpost–claimed to be more compliant than a round post. The final step was to integrate the seatpost clamp into the frame, which results in more seatpost exposure for more seatpost deflection. Size specific carbon layup keeps ride quality more consistent through the various frame sizes, the company’s product information claims.

The top of the line SLR01 Disc frames achieve a sleeker look by adopting BMC’s ICS (Integrated Cockpit System) stem, which cleanly hides housing, wires, and/or hoses. Both the rim and disc frames can use a new holder for Shimano’s integrated Di2 junction box that rests in the port on the top of the down tube.