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Every time I fly with my bike, I always say a little prayer and cross my fingers after I check it in and then drop it off at oversize baggage at the airport. I take one last look at it and think “please please please treat it with a little TLC, Mr Baggage Handler, sir”. I’ve done a fair few flights with my Focus bikes over the past few seasons and the

The locals and race organisers here have been very helpful too. Huge thanks to Winston Crooke and his local DHL contacts; Jamie Holmes, general manager here at the Nisbet Plantation Beach Club and local triathlete and bike mechanic Reggie Douglas at Wheel World Cycle Shop.

Thank you once again, Wiggle. I’ve been a Wiggle-sponsored athlete since 2008 and in this time the people who make Wiggle the success story it is have never failed to look after me, support me and help me. To me, this replacement frame is about more than Wiggle helping out one of their athletes. It exemplifies how Wiggle is a company driven by people who always go out of their way to deliver, whether it’s for a bike-less athlete in the West Indies or a customer anywhere in the world. I’ll repay you on Saturday the best way I know how: by racing my hardest and fastest.