I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.