- Here we are in Trento for Rest Day 3
of the 2018 Giro d'Italia
and Ryan is gonna show us around
the Team Dimension Data bus.
Thank you very much for having us, Ryan.
- Yeah, no problem.
- I felt a bit rude intruding on your bus
without being invited in,
so, I think you're gonna show us around.
- Yeah, definitely.
Let's have a look.
- Cheers.
- Great.
- First impressions of this bus,
it is quite warm.
Do you guys not have air con or
- We have European management, European bus driver,
so as they call it the bronchitis machine,
yes, it's always hot like this, sometimes hotter.
- Because air-con is believed to give you all kinds
of illnesses, right? So you can't have it on.
- Oh even at 21 degrees, it's game over, end of career.
So- keep it off.
- Just sweat and get heat exhaustion, great!
- The front seats are always for the big dogs, like
the Cavendish's, the Eddie's. For this race it's
Ben O'Connor, the young pup but riding like a big dog.
And Louis Meintjes.
- Yeah
- And then kind of the lower caliber
or the further back you sit
so I'm right in the back there, in the corner.
- It's actually the best seat, but yeah.
- I kind of keep an eye on everyone who sits back on this
- Cool.
Do the seats swivel?
- Yeah they do.
- Do you want to give us a demo?
- Yeah, why not?
- Sit in Ben's seat, he won't know, he's not here.
- No, he's not.
- We won't tell him, he'll never know.
- Yeah, great. Don't, please don't.
So you know, you've got full like
a 90 degree range of motion.
- So I can see why this is the prime seat
because you have your own little table.
- You can also put your legs up if you're that flexible.
- Oh, what, put your feet on the shoulders of the driver?
- That's, yeah- that's pretty much that.
- I'm not sure about that.
Every rider has their own little bin it looks like,
a little sort of compartment.
- Exactly.
- Helmet hanger
- Yeah so it's quite nifty so everyone's got their own
little area or allocation, with their rubbish bin
and their charging station for their Garmin and phone
which is probably the most important thing.
- Yeah
- And then baby wipes, sun cream, shammy cream
and glasses cleaner.
- Definitely want that in your own compartment, I think.
- You do, you don't want to share that.
Often a big fight for that.
- Cool, copy of the Garibaldi down there.
Just handy reading on the way to the stage.
Yeah, check out the course.
- I mean, first four days you pretty much,
you memorize everything word for word.
By the second race day, it's just all the same.
You kind of don't even want to look at it
because it just looks like it's uphill
and it's just painful to look at so.
Just keep it there but mainly use is as a cup holder.
- Yeah or under the front wheel for the tobo.
- Exactly like that.
- It's a bit of a brick, the Girabaldi,
it's as big as a Bible basically.
- It's ridiculous, you actually need
to buy extra excess baggage
when you fly home because it just takes up
half your luggage allowance.
- Music system?
- Printer.
- Printer, of course!
Printer. So I think the director prints stem stickers there
and information which very seldom gets looked at
but it's really important that we have a printer there.
- Cool.
- It's also just above the bathroom
so you've got a hidden bathroom down there.
- Nice.
- It's quite important. I mean it's definitely overused
but in a Grand Tour, having your own bathroom
is really important.
- Otherwise you have to brave the crowds
to dash to some porta-loo that
doesn't exist normally in Italy
and then everyone wants your signature
whilst you're trying to go to the toilet
in the bushes or something.
- A hundred percent.
So having that privacy in your own, it's really important.
And then moving into our kitchen.
Generally we've got all the pre-race food sitting here
which is quite nice and then after the stage,
there will be post-race food:
rice, couscous, omelets, chicken
which is really prepared by our chef.
- Prepared and eaten straight away, I hope.
- Yes
- Can we open the cupboards?
- Yeah, sure.
- OK, I don't feel quite so rude
because I've been guided round.
Nice, Meusli, chewing gum, and nuts, oh honey.
- More sauces
- Balsamic glaze, nice.
- And then that is the fridge, or one fridge.
So this side has got the waters.
- Is that beer?
- No, it's some Pellegrino Chino.
- Aw, you sound sad.
- Sometimes it tastes like beer.
- (Laughing)
- Also, generally in the last week
sometimes it substitutes with beer but for now,
it's still that.
- Nice.
- And this is generally with the yogurts and the chocolates.
So this is my fridge.
It's not actually that well stocked at the moment.
- Maybe have a word.
It's rest day, they need to be chomping
for the chocolate now because it's very important
for morale in the final week.
- A hundred percent,
that's the only reason why I'm carrying on.
And then this is our nutrition.
So we are fortunate enough to have SiS
and this is also hoarded before every stage.
- Yeah- the good flavors, right?
You go and make sure you've got a good ten
of them for tomorrow's stage two.
- A hundred percent and I already know where it is.
So the chocolate is far back right.
- Is that the best do you reckon?
- For now, I mean the bananas are left so don't go left,
just go straight to the right.
I don't actually know what's in there and it's locked
so maybe I'm not supposed to know what's in here.
- That's more beer probably for the staff.
That's the staff fridge for the beer, I reckon.
- Yeah, it's pretty wide so it's well locked up.
- So what's, TV system?
- Yeah so TV system, WiFi as well so you ensure that's
- You get WiFi, of course, otherwise.
- It's locked though so the riders don't have access to it.
- What?
- Yeah, so depending which rider you are,
maybe you can try to get WiFi.
- You're not serious?
- Seriously.
- It's almost like oxygen these days.
Surviving without WiFi is.
- I mean I think they'd choose WiFi over air conditioning.
And then as we get further back, this is the fun cupboard.
This is where we have a lot more snacks.
- Snacks?
- It's just spare coffee, extra coffee
and extra olive oil and things like that.
Here we have the shower so we're quite fortunate
we have shower slash shoe cupboard.
- Do you have to shower with the vacuum cleaner
or is that just temporary.
- No, no, I think that's just a storage, temporary storage.
- What's this, what's this baby?
- This is a Chubecka Bike.
I mean, as you know, we ride for charity
and this is our Gira edition.
- Awesome
- At the Giro, so this was for last year, the hundredth Giro
and we try get a hundred girls on bikes,
the campaign this year is to get a thousand girls on bikes.
- Brilliant
- But it's still great that we've got the pink bike
with us to keep us motivated.
- That's cool although it does look like they might have
to adjust the handlebars before you ride it anywhere.
- Oh yes, oh yes, definitely.
- That's beautiful.
- The riders take their morning weights.
- Oh, really?
- Before each stage, after each stage.
- Really?
- Yeah. If we blur out my weight, that'd be appreciated.
- No one's weight should every be on camera.
If they did this to men with measurements
for kit fitting was horrific.
- No it's something you don't wish
- That's harsh, but it's presumably also a health measure
to check that you are eating enough and well hydrated.
- And also to see if you lose a lot in this stage,
you kind of
- Yeah, rehydrate, yeah. That's good yeah?
As long as it's not like a stick to beat you
with over a lack of chocolate.
Thanks so much Ryan, it's been a pleasure
and I think we've got a much better insight
into the interior of this bus.
Thanks to Ryan's insight.
- Yeah, great, no problem. You're welcome.
- So Ryan has gone to put his feet up because it is,
after all, a recovery day,
and we thought we'd check out the underside of the bus
where there's loads of exciting stuff.
So here we go.
This is cleaning products I think for cars, not bikes.
A lot of hoses, sponges.
We have the time trial warm up fans,
some awnings I think, washing machines.
Very important. Nobody likes hand washing a cycling kit.
Drying machine.
These are posts to put up fences to keep the public
at bay when riders are stacking,
you know bikes are lined up and riders are warming up.
Bike stands, very important obviously.
Elite tower trainers, nice.
Well it's been fascinating.
I think it's been super interesting having a rider
show us around the team bus.
Thanks to Ryan who you can see up there
on the side of the bus.
If you'd like to check out what he eats for breakfast,
you can click here for the video that we did
with riders earlier this Giro.