Quick adjustments be💝fore a final pre-race training ride(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Fresh tubulars are stuffed in this shelf space(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
A wall rack holds every💟 Rotor ring per🅘mutation a pro needs(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
No big deal, just a🙈 holdall full of Dura-Ace cassettes(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Fuji's wheel brand Oval uses Reynolds rims, and when the supply doesnღ't come ꦅthrough, sometimes they simply re-sticker Reynolds own wheels(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
If somethꦦing doesn't fit right, you can always grind it(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
A selection of wheels fills onꦍe end of the bus, some with tyres g♏lued, some without(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Turbo trainers for warming up line the wall(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
In a separate compartment, one of t෴he𝄹 team staff is making rice cakes for the riders…(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
…perfect for starving cyclists (Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
An essential appliance for all that filthy Lycra(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
The bus's cargo space 🎉is mostly filled with drinks(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Next to the bus, the bike setup jig is ready(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
We swi🌸tch bikes constantly at BikeRadar – one of these would be so useful(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
In the riders' own bus, the team green is 💙everywhere(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
This aero helmet cover woꦅuldn't be our choice for Spain'🅷s sweltering heat(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Even the towels are green!(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
🔯This Ultegra training clincher looked a little lonely(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
The other side is Tran🃏sonics, 𒀰Altamiras, and the new SL(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Inside the bus, one side is devoted to Fujಞi Norcom TT bikes(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
The Caja Rural-Seguros RGA mechanics' bus(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Caja-Rural doesn't have an offical shoe sponsor so the ride𒈔rs wear a variety of shoes. Omar Fraile seems to have a friend at Giro(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
There's no sense of panic as one of Basque rider Amets Txurruka's bikes gets some atten🧸tion(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
This mechanic seems to have a ꦆlot of faith in the strength of Rotor's chainring teeth(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Anothe🎐r stand, another bike, with fresh tape half-applied(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
According to Portuguese rider Ricardo Vilela'sꦆ🌱 Garmin, it's 31.6 degrees C. At 10am!(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
A Caja Rural-Seguros RGA mec𓆏hanic at work. Cool as ice(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Here, another bike gets a fresh gear cable(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
We🌺 know you love tools – here 🅷are some tools!(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
"Handwaschpaste" seems fairly self-explanatory(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
More tasty tools from our favouriteཧ blue tool company(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
This steerer cutting guide sug൩gests s🐓omeone's been building fresh framesets up(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
More tools, and a discarded chain to boot(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Part of looking pro is always riding a clean bik𓆏e –𝓡 must be nice?(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
While we were loitering, the mechanics rigged up a scale in this doorway to check bike weig🌳hts. The new SL is so light it's been causing some head scratching?(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
These weights were bei🦩ng considered to bring bikes up to the 6.8kg mininum. It was noticeable that many were already fitted with relatively heavy all꧑oy finishing kit(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
Like many teams, Caja Rural is sponsored by Skoda(Image credit: Matthew Allen / Immediate Media)
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España is about to get under way and it's got the makings of a good one, with some heavy hitters out to prove themselves. It's the last chan꧑ce at glory for those who've had a disappointing season so far, and it's also a hugely important opportunity for the five wildcard entries that will race alongside the 17 WorldTour teams over the next three weeks.
Spanish Pro Continental team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Caja Rural-Seguros RGA is one of those five, and we had a nose round the outfit's vehicles as the team was preparing to roll out for one last training ride the morning before the Vuelta begins. Faced with the immense logistical challenge that supporting nine pros over 3,357km of racing presents, there was no particular sense of tension or anxiety – despite our best efforts to get in 🍌the way.
Take a look at the huge 🍸gallery above for an insight into what keeps a pro team on the road.
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