- Have you ever wondered, what riders
carry with them on the long, gruelling three weeks
of a grand tour?
Well, we're here in Sardinia,
at the Giro d'Italia, to ask that very question
to Italian time trial champion,
Manuel Quinziato, of Team BMC.
And his little villa is just up here.
Let's go have a look.
(knocks on door loudly)
Hope he's in.
He's in. - Hello!
- Hey Manuel - Hey!
Good to see you. - What a surprise!
(musical ping)
- Big surprise.
Not setting us up or anything...
Anyway, can we come up and look at
what you're takin' - Sure!
(relaxed, laid-back music)
For me, like one of the priorities is music.
- Okay.
- So, like for example I have my speakers here,
and that's for the room,
and these are for the bus.
Here I have like all the things
I need in the first TT,
so like starting with TT,
I'm pretty proud to show you - Look at this!
- my Italian champion TT suit.
- Wow! - Yeah, that's fast.
- It looks remarkably small but we do know,
I mean that is, that's pretty cool, isn't it?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You were so proud to get this, weren't you?
- Yeah, I was.
I was pursuing this, this jersey for like,
all my career so it's cool that I got it.
- Skin suit in there in the tricolour,
okay, so what else do we have?
- Yeah, then we have, so we have a jersey,
this is like a standard jersey for like,
use it in the classic.
So I have like, the three jerseys.
- The three jerseys,
- Then I have, I have heavier underwear
because maybe, hopefully we won't get any rain,
but after maybe a cold day,
it's nice to stay in the bus
and put something warmer after the stage.
- How basic, got the,
- Yeah, I hope yeah.
- So what else do we have? - So this is a light,
light underwear, yeah.
This is the heavy jersey.
- Okay.
- That you can put when it's also a bit chilly.
Then I have my laptop.
Pulse meter.
- It's a nice laptop bag isn't it?
Like an envelope.
- Bib shorts.
Okay.
So how many pairs of these will you
actually be wearing in the - I have
- Giro D'Italia? - I have four.
But should be like, think that
two or three is enough.
Three pair of gloves.
I think these are light socks.
- Now, this is the big question.
Are you a black socks man or a white socks man,
or do you only get black socks with BMC?
- Yeah, we got only black socks but I have white
shoes and black shoes so the point is, I like
white shoes, white socks,
black shoes, black socks.
- Fair enough.
- That's like the belt and white shoes,
white belt, black shoes, - Fashion tips from
Manuel Quinziato, absolutely fantastic
- You can be kicked in the street in Italy if you
have different belt and shoes,
- Okay.
- That's the people get kicked in the ass.
- Wow, it's serious!
- Then actually, my weak point, if there's
one guy that has that on this year, it's me, so.
I have it also, my Assos.
Have that in case.
Because if it rains, I put it on, otherwise not.
You put it reverse, but.
- I look good.
- You look like Mister Laurent.
- Blue steel.
- Yeah, blue steel. (laughs)
- So what else do we have?
Some more gloves, more socks,
and lots of spare pairs of socks.
- Shaving cream, Probiotics,
and these are heavy socks that we would never
use in the Giro, hopefully.
It like really like a, - that's if things get really,
that, maybe these are the Stelvio socks perhaps.
- Ooofff.
- Let's not go there, let's not go there.
Okay!
- Now we have, oh wow, look at here, we have,
just received this,
this super
- All right, pink!
- Yeah, pink.
Yeah, these are special Oakley, yeah, yeah.
Yeah my wife is gonna love it.
- Are you gonna wear them or just save 'em?
You better wear them, hadnt't you really?
Ah, looking good.
- Even with the sticker, (mumbles) even better.
Earplugs!
My earplugs, I like silence.
- Does he snore?
- Yeah a little bit. (laughs)
- Good idea, good idea.
- Definitely is the lucky charm.
- A little Japanese lucky,
I love lookin' into the suitcases.
Oh, this is a little buff?
- Yeah, this is the shell of Santiago.
I got married
in Santiago.
So Santiago is a city that is very important
for me, so this is like a lucky charm,
and if it's really cold also, - That's pretty.
I love the kind of personal touches
you've got in there.
And I say we've gotta,
I think it's worth havin' a quick look,
this is your backup bag or kit, isn't it?
So you've got plenty of other
actual stuff in here.
- Yeah, yeah, I put some things there.
It's more socks, more jersey, what is this,
this light one?
- It looks like it might be the lighter one.
- Yeah it's the lighter one.
Here we go, here we go.
Light jersey.
And here we have like new shoes.
Not sure gonna use, this is brand new.
- You haven't worn these yet?
- Nah, because I have two shoes, one pair new,
and old ones, so this is just in case a disaster
happens so I have a third pair of shoes.
This is my pyjama pants.
And then I always have a like rock band's t-shirt
for like, as pyjama t-shirt, this is
from the Hives, actually Chris, maybe,
the drummer may come to the Giro.
- He's a keen cyclist isn't he,
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
He came to see me in the
2014 Giro
for the last three stages he saw it.
- Fantastic.
- Then!
- New watch! - Ding!
Got the new watch yesterday.
- He's a sponsor's dream, this lad.
- Yeah, yeah actually.
- You got a new watch for the especially
for the Giro?
- Yeah, that's it.
This is the ,
this is the new Connected Tag Heuer 45.
This is actually a book that one of my
best friends gave me.
I don't know, it's Patrick McGrath,
it's Follia, it's madness.
Sometimes you are so tired that you
cannot really sleep.
If you read just a few pages then you like,
it gets easier to,
- It does relax you, doesn't it?
- Yeah, yeah.
- So you got some casual wear here, as well,
so you got all your BMC casual,
- Yeah, this is like the jacket, BMC jacket,
hopefully I won't really need it,
but maybe when I get to the mountain,
to go to restaurant, if go to walk around.
- I'll tell you what I am intrigued about,
is the Giro d'Italia Panini sticker book,
collected sticker albums for football and stuff.
So the Giro has one so,
you've got your own sticker, haven't you?
Have you found it yet?
Yeah, I don't know, they gave me,
they provided me a lot of packets.
- Your lucky dip stickers
from the Giro D'Italia.
Will it be,
it's a one in 200,
well, one in like 50 chance,
I can't do the math, but anyway.
- Or more. (laughs)
- Let's have a look.
Oh no, we have
Jan Hirt from CCC-Sprandi-Polkowice,
Christian Knees, Nicola Ruffoni of Bardiani-CSF,
- I honestly, if there's one thing that I saved
form every Grand Tour I did,
this is my 19th Grand Tour,
I have all the Garabaldis and books
from Tour de France, Vuelta.
I mean they're there, I kept them.
- Well, Manuel, thank you very much for
showing us around your suitcase.
Once again, and good luck for the Giro.
And if you have any more - Hey, one moment,
you don't think that you're gonna leave me
with all that, you need to put
all this (beep) back because,
it took me forever to set this.
- Right, well.
I will help you put it back,
never had that happen before.
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Sorry, mate, I'll just,
- Do my pyjama first.
- Pyjamas first, all right.
- Okay.