BMC RoadMachine 3

“Off-White”.

Distance ridden: 2,000km

Okay, I’m a bit behind, and already a year, 2,000km and a trip to Mallorca into my BMC ownership experience. I’d seen this bike online and loved the look of it, but at five grand, it was comfortably outside of what I was looking to spend on a bike to replace my well-loved De Rosa. Seems like other people thought the same, because come end-of-season-sale time, Wheelbase had it marked down by over 30% and they only had it in my size. Fate, I decided, and after a bit of conversation with a very helpful chap called Aaron, the bike was mine.

I didn’t specifically want Di2. I’d had it on hire bikes and never really thought it was worth the financial difference over a decent mechanical setup. This was made during that weird changeover period, where mechanical Ultegra wasn’t a thing for quite a long time, and themn, with the money off, this model with Ultegra 8170 was starting to seem like a bargain.

The wheels it arrived with were BMC’s boggo alloy rims - tubeless ready, but with not much more that could be said about them. Initially, they were swapped out for my Zipp 303S, but those were soon snaffled by my wife, and some 404 Firecrests called out to me; the original stickers being replaced by far less subtle white ones after only a couple of outings.