He paid for his first road - racing bicycle , a secondhand Colnago , partly by buying vodka and cigarettes while out on training rides and then reselling them to classmates at double the price .
Money was tight in Froome 's family .
Froome paid for Froome 's first road - racing bicycle , a secondhand Colnago , partly by buying vodka and cigarettes while out on training rides and then reselling them to classmates at double the price .
Money was tight in Froome 's family .