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  • June 9, 2014 at 8:25 am #21633
    Stanley

    ok here goes for all you healthy cyclists

    for years now since i can remember me and my bike have gone everywhere so when the tour came here and living in yorkshire it seemed natural to pedal it.

    so……..

    for the first time reluctantly i went out and bought the bird seed energy chocolate flavoured energy bars, the energy gels that taste like they have been in nappies and the fizzy zero cal drinks high energy get you up them hills tablets that taste like alka seltzers. i went around the stage two from york to sheff on my bike.on a steady road bike i have to say. i ate a bananna two hours before, did the right warm ups etc and went around in about 8 and half hours, a couple of comfort stops. i felt like crap afterwards, sick dizzy and really really ill.

    did the very same trip two weeks later same bike clothes hair had curry night before and two pints of stella, set off on a full english and jumped straight on saddle, apple and blackcurrent squash from asda (double stregth), four mars bars, stopped for fish chips peas bread cake or tea cake with a can of coke, had crisps and an ice cream and did it 45 mins yes 45 mins less and i felt great. no tiredness nausia etc. weather conditions before you ask same

    now i think some marketing company is having you lot on. that calorie free biscuit and extra whammo zammo drink is just expensive rubbish. its hyped up junk. nice bike comfy clothes and your off. take a selection box with you not those pretend chocolate flavoured bird seed biscuits the size of your thumb and those gels are just rubbish.

    get some proper food down you and get over them hills.

    oh and plenty of salt and vinager on your chips

    happy riding all stanley 53 still pedalling strong

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  • November 6, 2016 at 7:47 pm #798349
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    Jimnm

    dreamlx10 wrote:

    dreamlx10 wrote:
    If the scientists could only make an energy bar smell or taste like fish and chips,now that would be a winner.
    Fish chips n mushy peas with bits on,  beats gels 😉

    October 3, 2016 at 3:42 pm #798347
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    Bmblbzzz

    Zero calorie drinks and tabs

    Zero calorie drinks and tabs contain no energy, by definition. Obvs. Though the water and electrolytes might help you access stores of energy already in your body or help you digest other food better/quicker. 

    I go with “real food” every time, but chips are usually a bit heavy. Beans on toast is good though. I like quiche too, but I guess it’s not for everyone. And cake of course. And tea, lots of tea. If I need some instantaneous energy I’ll have a bit of Kendal Mint Cake if I happen to have any on me, or chocolate or even nuts and raisins. Chocolate-coated coffee beans are good too. 

    October 3, 2016 at 2:47 pm #798345
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    Rapha Nadal

    All I’m seeing is that a man

    All I’m seeing is that a man rode for 7 odd hours on a banana, an energy bar and some gels, drank zero calorie “energy drinks” and then bonked.  Go figure!

    Love your Merckx though, Stanley.  Lovely!

    September 2, 2016 at 12:34 pm #798343
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    Stanley

    here is my little old bicycle

    here is my little old bicycle.

     

     

    August 26, 2016 at 11:34 pm #798341
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    dottigirl

    Last 100-miler I did included

    Last 100-miler I did included a lunch stop for fish & chips and a pint of cider. Probably one of the easiest I’ve done – solid, savoury food always wins over gels, and the cider was perfect for speedy glycogen replenishment. yes

    August 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm #798339
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    Stanley

    It’s time to chop up those

    It’s time to chop up those stupid carbon fibre bicycles.

     

    rubbish bouncy, no character. 

     

    People that buy them, usually over weight golfers, men going through the change and show offs

     

    stick to a proper steel bicycle 

    July 23, 2014 at 2:05 pm #798337
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    leqin

    Him Up North wrote:Sky

    Him Up North wrote:
    Sky Soigneur: “Well, er, fish n chips, mushy peas and a can of coke or maybe Fanta. Froomey likes curry sauce instead of peas, um, Vas Kiryienka prefers a special coz he’s got a big engine. And Eddy Boss will have a battered sausage.”

    You missed out Berny Eisel’s pizza.

    July 23, 2014 at 7:57 am #798335
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    Jonny Hill

    I tried fig rolls but had to
    I tried fig rolls but had to stop every 30 miles for a dump

    July 22, 2014 at 8:30 pm #798333
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    matthewn5

    Well as I understand it
    Well as I understand it energy bars have very low fat, high carb/sugar. So you get plenty of carbs but no fat. Fish and chips is usually pretty fatty, though usually poly-unsaturated fat (unless done in beef dripping as you sometimes still find in Yorkshire).

    I think a reasonable balance of real food, bananas and organic bars isn’t too bad.

    July 22, 2014 at 1:32 pm #798331
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    notfastenough

    All those little 6-for-£1
    All those little 6-for-£1 breakfast snack bars in the supermarket, plus malt loaf, fig rolls and bananas. Energy bars just taste like premium-priced cardboard.

    Electrolyte drinks though, are ace. If I don’t get my fill of salts, the cramps and headache are awful. Although this can mean that I treat myself to crisps instead.

    July 22, 2014 at 1:05 pm #798329
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    700c

    There’s definitely something
    There’s definitely something in the ‘real food’ argument -(though just fish and chips perhaps a bit too heavy) -I had my first proper bout of cramps and muscle spasms on a very long, hilly ride last month – cereal bars, gels, chocolate, isotonic drinks and hi five, caffeine etc and yet the lack of salt plus hard efforts over hills really screwed me up! I couldn’t stomach any more gels or bloks/ sugary water and only got better after pork pies, peanuts, sandwiches and massage!

    Moral of the story -you need a good range of salty, savoury food as well as carbs and quickly absorbed gels etc for fast endurance riding

    July 22, 2014 at 11:54 am #798327
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    Anonymous

    did a 200 miler over 2 days
    did a 200 miler over 2 days at the weekend over yorkshire dales, fuelled by water, ale, cereal bars and chips. Tasted awsom, felt awsom.

    June 14, 2014 at 7:36 pm #798325
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    barbarus

    + 1 for the nature valley. I
    + 1 for the nature valley. I couldn’t ride on fish and chips and as a former runner i find gels pretty repulsive. Someone gave me a clif shot blok when I was all in at the end of a hot race and it may have been psychological but I’m sure it got me home. I prefer muesli before the ride and lots of it.

    June 14, 2014 at 3:04 pm #798323
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    dreamlx10

    If the scientists could only
    If the scientists could only make an energy bar smell or taste like fish and chips,now that would be a winner.

    June 14, 2014 at 10:03 am #798321
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    nowasps

    I reckon a pint of water and
    I reckon a pint of water and a washing-up bowl of porridge with sultanas before I set off, would keep me going for 81 miles.

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