- This is Bora-Hansgrohe's team bus for the
2017 Giro d'Italia, it's one of two they have.
Let's take a look!
(soft jazz music)
Right, so let's have a look at the
Bora-Hansgrohe bus.
If I go right first, I think.
So, the very first thing that you see
on these buses, is,
this is the team meeting area, so it's probably
seating for pretty much all nine of the riders,
here at the Giro or any other grand tour,
and it's just where they can get
their last-minute kind of meeting notes,
that sorta thing, exactly for their
race strategy, what they're gonna be doing
on the day, and they probably flash up
a bit of the information on that screen behind.
Moving forward, this is the seating area for travel,
so nine seats, nine riders,
whoa!
Each rider has kind of a bit of space just
to store their stuff here so,
we've got the riders helmets,
very custom, very pro, this is
Lukas Postlberger's one.
Then we also have shoes and stuff back here.
Again, I think these
might be Postlberger's shoes.
He has got the custom Austrian flag
Boa dials on those.
Moving even further forward,
these are the seats with the kinda most leg room,
these are the ones you can really spread out.
Custom Bora-Hansgrohe curtains.
The Bora team do have a very, very well-equipped
kitchen truck with
a Rocket Espresso Coffee Machine.
This is for when the riders are more on the move,
or just kinda that last-minute caffeine hit
before the start so they've got
a De'longhi coffee machine.
I think it's bean to cup.
You see that?
Espresso Roma, very appropriate for
a race at the Giro in Italy.
Got a few little sugars, snacks,
got stroopwafels from Holland, very very nice.
I really like those.
And then, these are,
that's the control centre,
for all their TV screens and then, I guess
in this the fridge or the freezer.
That's the freezer.
This is the fridge.
So this is where kinda the little snacks,
pick-me-ups for either before or after the race,
so they're a big fan of the,
blood orange San Pellegrinos,
they are very nice,
got some sparkling water,
little milks for the coffees suggest
the sort of stuff that,
after a really hot day in the saddle here
at the Giro, you will probably need all of it.
We have got the,
last-minute snack centre really.
And the Hoover.
So they've got a little Hoover to Hoover up
any mess, but,
Bora-Hansgrohe sponsored by HIGH5 so they
are racked out with all of
the HIGH5 nutrition stuff there.
When you're about to go to the start of a race,
grab a couple of those, fill your pockets up,
and get going.
In here,
more food!
Got cereals, rice cakes, coconut juice,
healthy stuff that's easy to eat
and easy on the stomach.
In here, podium bags and radios, so,
this hat, says on the tin, has a podium bag.
Looking back from here, we've got,
I guess this is almost a dressing room
for the riders, so this is,
I've said those seats where they chill out
before a race, but they probably
also chill out here.
So, every rider at this race has a spot,
you can just,
I guess the soegneurs and the bus driver
change the labels,
I don't know how they draw lots for these spots.
Jose Mendes,
Portuguese champion.
Put the custom helmet there.
These machines are quite interesting, so,
they were telling me earlier that these machines
are recovery machines, that the riders
will lie here and, immediately after the race
for 30 minutes, they'll receive that and
they feel that it helps them to recover
and be fresh for the next day.
Moving backwards, Hansgrohe is a kitchen and
bathrooms fitting company, so it is fitting that
when Bora-Hansgrohe became a World Tour team,
they fitted out this bus with Hansgrohe care.
So we've got two Hangrohe showers in there.
The traditional European team double shower,
then in here,
believe it or not, WC, there's the bathroom.
Probably a que for that before
the races on Sundays.
So before we end this one, we're just gonna
check out that brand new kitchen truck too.
Follow me.
Wow, this is very cool.
So this is the kitchen truck.
So it is where the riders, chill out
once they get back to the hotel after each stage,
so once the bus has dropped them there,
and it's where they eat all of their meals,
so it's really designed just to be as comfortable
and as home-like as possible for the riders,
and there are some very, very cool touches here.
So these tables fold out to get even bigger.
(knocks table) Very, very solid wood.
You've got all the little seasonings and stuff
up top here.
So moving back, we're got
the Rocket Espresso machine,
we don't have one of those on the bus, we've got
a smaller coffee machine on the bus,
but we have a very nice, very polished,
Rocket Espresso machine there,
I'm not gonna make a cappuccino, it's a bit
too late in the day for that.
Just over there, facing me we've got
a huge TV screen and we've got a music system
as well, so apparently the riders can
bluetooth their own music or their
own kinda videos onto that.
So this is, quite obviously the kitchen,
now we're gonna try and not to disturb chef,
so you've got the Bora cooking system,
Bora professional cooking system,
Bora of course, are one of the sponsors there,
and also at the back, Hansgrohe have also
equipped the bus with mixers
and stuff like that too.
It's actually very cool.
It's better equipped than any kitchen I will
probably ever work in myself.
Smells very good, I don't know what's cookin'.
So there was a tour of the Bora-Hansgrohe
team bus and a really quick look
inside their brand-new kitchen truck for 2017.
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