Sounds like a secret agent, no? Or a superhero perhaps… the life of a race mechanic isn’t the glamourous existence you may think, and cyclocross wrenches probably have it worst than most, what with the constant mud and frozen fingers to contend with.

Ex-pat NZer Ricoh Riott followed Kona team mechanic Doug Sumi around to get an insight into the nuts and bolts of cross curation.