Things I can’t live without

Chris Froome, Team Sky rider

“David Rozman, the Slovenian soigneur I work with most of time. He is a magician, you can get off the bike as if your legs are in several different pieces and after a two-hour session on the massage table everything works again.”

Chris Opie, Canyon-eisberg rider

“Long days of racing fuelled at times by gloopy energy products, coupled with long transfers and little spare time, one thing I can’t survive without is my electric toothbrush and my bizzare love for experimenting with every different type of toothpaste I can find.”

Max Sciandri, BMC directeur sportif

“Chewing gum. Always mint, not too strong. I’m not like a lot of guys with the ipads and stuff; I’m not a massive fan of that kind of thing, I just rely on a good relationship with the riders. Checking the course out in the morning, doing a good meeting, just getting a good vibe between the guys to feel that bond we have — we’re a group or a unit and we just go out and race.”

Matt Brammier, Aqua Blue Sport rider

“My coffee. I enjoy — especially here in the Middle East — getting up in the morning and getting a coffee and sitting on the balcony. I’ve got this little machine, I don’t know what’s it’s called, that does a good job. I’m not a scientist with a beard when it comes to the beans; I just buy something straightforward that I like the taste of and go from there.”

Roger Hammond, Dimension Data directeur sportif

“Personally the one thing I can’t live without is modern technology because it allows me to keep in touch with my kids. It’s difficult to remember the days where I’d disappear for weeks on a race and be without a mobile phone for two or three weeks and not have any contact at all, or just be sending telephone numbers and room numbers and just hoping for a phone call. Now I can get video messages from my kids and it’d be hard not to have those now.”