Nicknamed 'the perfect athlete' at HTC-Columbia, four-times Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti , 33, outlines how to be the ultimate bike rider

Marco Pinotti is probably the last person in the world who would call himself perfect.  Anyone who says, like Pinotti, that he's taken 10 years to become a 'good' rider, clearly isn't a man with a huge ego.

At the same time, Pinotti has come to some pretty important conlusions about what it takes to perform well as a top-level professional.  And he, and his HTC-COlumbia team, have the results to prove it.