Help required. Sorry, another thread asking for opinions…

Otis Bragg wrote:The good

Otis Bragg wrote:

The good news is that with Fyffes now being bought over by Chiquita, you shouldn’t suffer from any compatibility issues when switching bananas now. Also, if you can hold off until the end of the evening I hear there will be price cuts on previous models.

I heard there was a massive wait time still on parts for some of the older chiquita models though, is this true?

…or try something stylish,
…or try something stylish, as featured on road.cc

I assume you are under 40 as
I assume you are under 40 as your diction indicates that you sat the diluted GCSE regime and therefore were never exposed to Faust, Camus and Martyn Samuel – poor you.

I would suggest carrying the banana in your shorts as this helps protect ‘appearances’ when your old boy has gone down the button mushroom route on a cooler day and will ensure a warm delivery. Although I have still to master the extraction and fuelling ‘no handed’ during a sportive – I think this was what David Millar was tweeting about this week when the ‘prats’ were wobbling all over the shop when taking their banana out whereas the ‘pros’ performed the task mid peloton with great aplomb during G-W.

secondly, we should talk colour. Green = Starchy and so good for slower release carbs (but you could get more benefit and taste experience from a raw potato) and yellow / flecks of brown = tasty and sweet.

and finally, the bananas should only ever be from the Windward Islands because I went to St Lucia on holiday in 1994 and Dr Doolittle was filmed there.

Whether by hard research or
Whether by hard research or happenchance you have come to the right place.
Cycling is a curious collection of disciplines but happily the need for individual thought can easily be removed from the equation, removing those stressful situations where thinking for yourself might cause unnecessary embarrassment by standing out from the crowd.
I am told that something called “the rules” is a good starting point although I have never bothered to read them myself, instead preferring to simply copy what I see, whether it’s the clothes others wear, brands that they ride or the sayings they use.
Good luck in your quest with your banana and let us know how you get on; no one would want a fellow cyclist to suffer any undue torment when presented with such a dilemma.