Taylor Phinney (BMC) has finally completed his dream of making a trip to Scotland, and he even got a mini bottle of whiskey from a fan in Edinburgh at the start of stage 4 of the Tour of Britain for his trouble.
However, the racing holds much more importance than a short stay north of the border as he tries to race himself into form ahead of his home World Championships, which begin in just over a week.
Phinney is down to do both the individual time trial and the road race for the US team but he’s also a likely starter in the team time trial for BMC. His leg injury meant that he wasn’t able to compete at last year’s World Championships where the team came out with Gold but he now has the chance to do it on home soil.
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"It would be sweet. Any time trial in the US is obviously special and the team time trial is something that I’ve specialised in for a long time. I didn’t know if I was going to be good enough for it but last week we had a camp and I felt really strong," Phinney told Cyclingnews.
"I haven’t done an hour-long time trial but not a lot of people do hour-long time trials anyway."
BMC have been one of the dominant figures in team time trialling, scoring big victories in the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana and have made themselves the undoubted favourites for victory on September 20. They have been dealt a blow with Tejay van Garderen suffering a broken collarbone at the Vuelta. Phinney believes that they’ve got such strength in depth that they will be just as strong without him.
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