My favourite thing to see? So hard to choose. I love to see my partner beside or in front of me - it gives me such a thrill to be doing "stuff" together still (we were married 22 years over the weekend).

In a race/ time trial though its being able to see the person who started in front of me get closer as I catch them.

My favourite sound? I'm with Eden on this - and Brandi and Silver too I guess. I love the sound of my bike - although especially in a TT when its me and the road, and realising it is me driving this amzing machine forward.

And something no-one has mentioned... the scents... I think that is something that makes cycling unique and really puts you in touch with your world... the smell of hot asphalt/tar/concrete, rain on warm earth, freshly mowed lawns, fruit blossom... the scent surrounds you and fills you and I love that (except when I pass the pigs up the road!)