I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

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

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

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