Spic-and-span: How the mechanics keep Tour team bikes clean

This year's Tour de France includes twenty teams and nearly 200 riders and each and every one of them starts each stage with a sparkling clean machine ready to take on another day. When you also consider that each rider has his own time trial bike as well, additional spares – and the fact that every team vehicle is also washed each day – it goes without saying that the team mechanics are quite accustomed to dishpan hands.