George Hincapie on Modern Adventure Pro Cycling and his storied racing career

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

After more than three decades in the sport, George Hincapie has started a new venture this year as the founder of the UCI Pro Road Team Modern Adventure Pro Cycling. It’s already gaining steam much faster than he expected — so fast, in fact, that they’re headed to the Volta a Catalunya and Paris Roubaix this year. George sat down with Payson this week to talk about why he wanted to start a new team, what he hopes they will achieve in the coming years, and why he almost turned down that Roubai...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:05.0	Fast forward a couple of days later, I'm in the breakaway going for the yellow jersey.
0:15.0	Like I was the best place guy in the overall and then all this drama hit the fan where the American team chased me down
0:21.1	and I lost a jersey in my wife's hometown by like five seconds. I forgot about this. Garmin chased us down for no reason. Got it. It was just sort of like this political thing. We were going after the same sponsors. Really? They didn't want another American in the yellow jersey. Hang on, hang on. There's a whole thing. Can we talk about this?
0:37.3	Of course, yeah.
0:41.2	Yeah. Hang on, hang on. There's a whole thing. Can we talk about this? Of course, yeah.
0:42.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
0:44.3	I'm so excited to bring you today's conversation with George.
0:48.2	He and I have had a handful of chats over the years at, you know, different group
0:52.6	brides we were both on or different social gatherings, but even still at, you know, different group rides we were both on or different
0:54.2	social gatherings. But even still, this episode was a little bit surreal for me because if you go
1:02.2	into my, for a lot of reasons, but if you go into my childhood room in central Texas to this day,
1:08.0	you'll find some old U.S. Postal Service Tour de France posters on the wall.
1:13.3	And it's not at all a stretch to say that I'm here in Gerona right now as a professional
1:18.5	cyclist training for another new season, recording a weekly podcast predominantly about cycling
1:24.3	because of the success that George and Lance and the postal team
1:30.3	had back in the day. I'm sure many folks can relate to that. And I mean, to his credit,
1:36.4	before we started recording, George said, you can ask me anything today, which actually kind of
1:41.2	threw me off in the moment because that opens a lot of doors.
1:45.5	But I decided to kind of stick to my guns with the original motivation or interest in this episode that I had.
1:54.2	I think his past, the U.S. Postal Service past, has been adjudicated thousands upon thousands of times at this point.
2:02.7	Maybe there'll be a part two of this conversation, and I can ask some of my own questions about that.
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