Upon arriving at our team camp in Carlsbad, California, I found our team mechanic, Doug Berner, eating a sandwich in the back of the team truck. It was the perfect-o opportunity to ask him a few questions.

LT: What is the grossest thing you have ever cleaned off of a bike?

DB: Normally I would say pee, because that is gross, but even worse is when dead worms stick to the bike after it rains

LT: When was the last time you went skinny dipping?

DB: 8 years ago

LT: Care to elaborate?

DB: No

LT: Were you alone, or with other people?

DB: I am not a solo-dipper

LT: What is the best thing you have ever eaten while riding a bike?

DB: Cheese Whiz at the start of a bike race, it really intimidates people

LT: What is the biggest thing you have ever run over while driving the truck?

DB: Curbs and stuff, nothing exciting…ask me the coolest thing I have found in the road

LT: What is the coolest thing you have found in the road?

DB: I found a wrench, actually, two wrenches. I could almost create a new tool box with all the tools I have found in the road.

LT: What is the worst thing you have ever broken?

DB: When I was 6, I was playing the drums with my mom’s knitting needles, and I broke them. I didnt know what to do, so I just put them back and never said anything about it. I still feel bad about it.

LT: Who is a better truck driver, Keith Meyer, Tristan Brown or Ben Harper?

DB: Keith, because he is a master impersonater. All of the sounds that the truck makes, Keith can make, and if he cant make them, he practices until he can.

LT: Best nickname you have ever been given?

DB: For a long time I was called ‘Moose.’ Working with Keith you get a lot of nicknames, like, all of a sudden one day, he started calling me “DJ Jazzy B.”

LT: Dang

DB: Yeah, I know