Marco Pinotti

Matt White and TT expert Marco Pinotti share their insight into the nature of the all-important 9.2km test.

With a balance of levity (AKA wheelies) and gravity (all-out descents), arriving at the finish within the time limit is the goal for the peloton’s non-climbers.

The squad will fold at the end of the season, which has given its riders at the Vuelta a España more motivation to ride hard.

Retired Italian champion — now sports trainer with BMC — Pinotti talks about his vision for the sport, how it can improve and develop.

The Italian is poised to retire next week at the conclusion of the Tour of Beijing

A generational change coupled with four major teams folding triggers an exodus from the peloton, big names and small, willing and unwilling

The Italian is a threat to earn a spot on the podium at the September 25 race in Florence

The mercury climbed well above 100 during stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California. Should the route have been altered?

BMC rider broke two ribs and his left collarbone in February. He returns to action next week

Italian crashes heavily in the wind, but does not fracture collarbone

The BMC Racing rider writes a newspaper column, but said doing a book was much harder

Marco Pinotti is headed home after a collarbone fracture suffered as he fought for bronze in the worlds TT

With his possible sanction for working with banned Dr. Michele Ferrari, Filippo Pozzato misses the Italian squad for London

In our daily Giro round-up, Cavendish fights for the points jersey in Milan, Phinney is happy to finish the Giro and Pinotti storms back for stage win

Garmin rider becomes first Canadian grand tour winner as Pinotti returns to win stage a year after leaving the Giro with a crash

In our daily Giro roundup, the maglia rosa walks out on press conference, Pinotti wants the Milan TT win, Phinney and others fined in the Dolomites

BMC Racing is aiming for the Giro d'Italia's time trials next month with Taylor Phinney and its leader, Marco Pinotti

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Like the rest of his Highroad teammates, Marco Pinotti isn't happy that the team is shuttering its doors at the end of the 2011 season after the team was left without a title sponsor.

Marco Pinotti, one of the veteran members of the HTC-Highroad team, says he cannot fully understand why cycling's most successful team is shutting down at the end of this season after a sponsor search came up short.

Marco Pinotti and André Greipel will lead HTC-Columbia at the 2010 Giro d’Italia, where American Craig Lewis will make his grand-tour debut.

HTC-Columbia's Marco Pinotti won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Porrentruy, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

Team HTC-Columbia’s Marco Pinotti had yet another strong finish at the Flèche Wallonne classic in Belgium on Wednesday, placing 28th, 32 seconds behind the winner Cadel Evans.