- The question we've been asking the pros this morning is,
how many bikes do they have?
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How many bikes do you own and have at home?
- How many I own from the team is none,
but how many I have at home,
so I've got,
one,
I'd say between six and eight bikes across the world.
- How many bikes do you have at your house?
(laughs)
- Too many.
I would reckon,
jeez, it's probably up around 10 or 11.
- Too many as my wife is getting a bit angry with me.
I have to move the bikes from one corner to the other,
but yeah, I kind of keep one bike from every season
I was professional of and yeah, yeah,
it's getting a lot now.
- Wow, that must be a lot of bikes, but in terms of
mountain bikes or gravel bikes or pub bikes,
have you got many of them?
- Yeah, I have a mountain bike, cyclo-cross bike,
track bike, so yeah.
I'm ready for everything.
- Yeah, that just sounds like more than
moving bikes from corner to corner.
That sounds like a warehouse is needed.
- (laughs) Yeah.
I would need a bigger basement, that's for sure.
- How many bikes have you got in total?
- Oh man.
That is a, that's actually, that's a pretty tough question.
With race bikes here, at the race, at home, cruiser bikes
I don't know, five or six but you know.
I think the equation is always n plus one.
N is bike, you know?
So you can never have enough bikes.
- (exhales) I have a Giant from HTC.
I have a Scott from HTC.
I have a Canyon mountain bike from 2011,
Omega Pharma-Lotto.
I have two Ridleys
I have a Pally, a handmade, custom frame from America.
I have a Vespa.
(buzzer)
If that includes a bike.
I also have a motorbike
(buzzer)
and a fat-bike.
My first very bicycle, a GT,
a classic triple triangle, if you remember them.
Yeah. Yeah.
- What model was that?
- It's a, well that's a, oh, you mean.
I think it's a GT01. It's very old, it's like back in
2000.
No.
1999.
- Well, I don't own many bikes, but I have quite a few.
Right now, my two go-tos are,
I've got a Cannondale Habit.
It's an awesome mountain bike.
I ride it quite a bit.
I think it's one of the reasons why I've improved
so much in the descending.
After Tour de Suisse, I had a really bad downhill
and decided I needed to hone the skills
so I bought a Habit and started working
on my mountain bike skills.
And I also have a Cannondale Slate,
which is kind of like the Swiss Army knife of bikes.
You can ride it everywhere.
- Yeah.
- So those are the two bikes I own.
- Not much. Only three or four bikes.
- Just one myself. That's it.
- Just one bike?
- Yeah, own myself, myself that I've bought
with my own money, one.
- So in total with the bikes that you get from the team?
- Three.
- More than 10 I think. (chuckles)
- Not so many because the bikes are owned by the team.
(laughs) But at home, probably,
at the moment, maybe six, seven bikes,
including city bikes, mountain bikes, all that stuff.
- Own? I have a lot more than I own.
You know the team lets us keep a lot of bikes.
But, yeah, I have quite a few.
We have a place in the states still
in Asheville, North Carolina.
I think, between my wife and I, we probably have
maybe 10 or 12 bikes there,
and then probably another nine in Girona.
- All team bikes or have you got a pub bike?
- I have all kinds of different ones,
like a fat bike, electric bike,
cross gravel bikes.
Yeah. A bunch of different road bikes.
Mountain bikes.
So, yeah, I'm a bit of a collector.
- Have you got a pub bike?
- No, I don't, but I have got one that's
potentially gonna be a pub bike.
I have my old, my first track bike, a BT.
- Oh, cool.
- And this might be a slightly sore point
at the moment with you, but how many bikes do you have?
Ha!
I don't wanna tell you how many bikes I got sat in my home,
'cause it's,
but a fair few, but the important one's
the Aero record bike.
I've still got that.
That and my mountain bike are the only bikes
that I actually own myself.
The rest of them are obviously team bikes
and I have the usual TT training bike
and road training bike.
- Did you have to buy your Aero record bike
'cause riders often don't get given their bikes
at the end of the year, or did you get given it?
- No. I was given it.
- Lucky boy.
- Yeah. Those three of them.
I think three or four of them made.
One was sold.
One's at the Canyon headquarters.
One's at a Malvern Style museum.
And the other one is at my home.
- It was one of the biggest disappointments
when I turned professional finding out
I didn't get to keep all my bikes at the end of the year,
although I did buy a couple.
Interesting to see the differences
between the riders these days in how many they keep
and how many they don't keep.
Adam Yates there with just three bikes to his name.
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