Modern Adventure Pro Cycling Closes Debut Season With Five Wins, Roubaix Start

A First-Year Squad With Five Wins

Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, the first new U.S. men's team with major European ambitions in more than a decade, signed off on its debut season this weekend with five victories on its palmares. The team lined up at Binche-Chimay-Binche on Tuesday before its final race, Paris-Tours, on Sunday. Since launching at the AlUla Tour in February, the squad has accumulated results across Europe, North America and Asia while running the gauntlet of invitations normally reserved for more established outfits.

Riders Delivering Across Three Continents

Riley Pickrell produced the team's most recent result, winning stage 6 of the Tour de Langkawi against Matteo Malucelli for his third career professional victory and his first for Modern Adventure. "When you finally do get a win, it really feels like you're paying your teammates back," Pickrell said. "I can't be happier." Pickrell also added a second-place finish on Sunday's finale, while Stefan de Bod wrapped the race 16th overall. Scott McGill picked up a yellow card during the week for decelerating in a sprint and endangering others, a sanction that underscored how steep the learning curve remained for the first-year operation.

Langkawi and Tour de Wallonie Set the Tone

The Langkawi result capped a campaign that had started building momentum earlier in the year. Samuel Flórez took the final stage of the Tour of the Gila in May for the team's maiden victory, and Modern Adventure also lifted the team classification there. De Bod had already secured South Africa's national time trial title before joining the European calendar. The squad's signature moment came in June at the Tour de Wallonie, where Ben Oliver won two stages and the overall classification against WorldTour opposition, delivering what Hincapie's project described as its biggest breakthrough to date.

Paris-Roubaix and the Push Toward the Tour de France

Race organizers opened doors for the newcomers, with a Paris-Roubaix wildcard throwing the first-year squad directly into the cobbled monument's deep end. Robin Carpenter waved to the crowd in the Roubaix velodrome as the team completed the race. Founder George Hincapie, who signed the riders and built the staff and infrastructure around them, said earlier in the season, "I wanna look back in five, six years from now and go, this is where we started. From basically 'Bad News Bears' to building to be one of the best teams in the world." Hincapie launched Modern Adventure with a stated ambition of reaching the Tour de France within five years and giving U.S. talent a sustained foothold in the European peloton.

The Competitive Picture for the First New U.S. Team

A separate women's result published the same day pointed to the wider competitive landscape. Nienke Veenhoven, 22, won A Travers les Hauts de France for Team Visma | Lease a Bike, her fifth victory of the 2026 season, with the team credited for shaping the race and protecting her position into the final 25 kilometers. The Modern Adventure and Veenhoven results together underline how new and established programs are pursuing wins through different structural models, with Hincapie's startup leaning on invite-driven race access and Visma leaning on deep squad execution.

What Comes Next for Modern Adventure

The team exits its European calendar at Paris-Tours and will now turn to off-season planning as Hincapie and his staff evaluate the rider roster, staff additions and the invitation pipeline required to convert year-one visibility into a steadier WorldTour trajectory in 2027.