Oi! Take your gel packets home with you!

[Rooster1]

You just put the gel wrappers in between the cabling on the handlebars, assuming you have some. That's what I do.

 

[winjim]

This post has to be a wind-up, surely?

Why? Do you dispute that gel wrappers are messy?

 

[mjr]

You just put the gel wrappers in between the cabling on the handlebars, assuming you have some. That's what I do.

How does that work unless you're so bad at cabling that the outers are rubbing as you ride?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Who the hell needs gels on a glorified leisure ride? A Mars bar and some fig biscuits would do just as well and neither tastes like wallpaper paste.

 

[si_c]

Put the empties in the foil or plastic that your panini (heroic) or rice cake (sky) was wrapped in, then shove it in your pocket... or as you don't have a team car or roadside swanny handing you refills as you ride, shove it in whatever stem or bar bag you're using to carry sufficient food.

I don't see how hard it is to carry a sandwich bag you can put the empty wrappers in if they are so disgusting when empty. I've seen loads of cyclists with them for their phones.

 

[MontyVeda]

Have you ever tried to put a used gel wrapper back in your pocket? It's fiddly and messy, you end up with sticky goo all over your hands and then the dregs seep through your jersey and make your back really uncomfortable. Much easier to just toss it.

just toss it then... tosser!

 

[si_c]

Who the hell needs gels on a glorified leisure ride? A Mars bar and some fig biscuits would do just as well and neither tastes like wallpaper paste.

I prefer wine gums or tracker bars. Mars bars melt, then you have what is basically a gel. Same for any chocolate based snack.

 

[John the Monkey]

Why? Do you dispute that gel wrappers are messy?

Whilst I hate to assume, I rather think that you've missed the point of contention here.

A Mars bar and some fig biscuits would do just as well

Co-op wine gums for me, thanks.

...and neither tastes like wallpaper paste.

Quite so - gels are revolting, eating them is a sensation I can only imagine to be broadly similar to ingesting a heavily sugared slug.

 

[TheJDog]

The manufacturers should repackage them so they look like regular kit-kat wrappers or whatnot, then everyone would just shrug their shoulders because it's just regular littering, not littering by cycling scum.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I find it very easy to empty a gel completely, roll up the packet, and stow it into the bottom of a pocket. Can't say I've ever noticed sticky hands, or pocket seepage. If it's oozing into your pocket, you clearly didn't finish it, ergo, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Accy cyclist]

On the subject of cyclists thinking they're pros in a race. The other month i saw a cyclist who's water bottle must've been empty, throw it across the road into some bushes, like the pros do for the fans to pick up as souvenirs.

 

[TheJDog]

I find it very easy to empty a gel completely, roll up the packet, and stow it into the bottom of a pocket. Can't say I've ever noticed sticky hands, or pocket seepage. If it's oozing into your pocket, you clearly didn't finish it, ergo, you're doing it wrong.

It's like taking a whiz - you never get those last few drops out.

 

[GravityFighter]

Why? Do you dispute that gel wrappers are messy?

Do you dispute that people who litter are cretins?

No excuse for it, IMO. Obviously some stuff may be accidentally dropped, but deliberately throwing your detritus whilst on the bike is unacceptable.

Typical Daily Fail article doesn't take account of any actual facts though.

 

[JoshM]

Have you ever tried to put a used gel wrapper back in your pocket? It's fiddly and messy, you end up with sticky goo all over your hands and then the dregs seep through your jersey and make your back really uncomfortable. Much easier to just toss it.

While I'm sure you're trolling, even if they're sticky and fiddly why does that give you the right to litter?

If you find an energy source inconvenient, use something else. It's important that we all leave our green spaces as we find them, otherwise there will be no greenspaces left. Such green spaces aren't your playground to do with what you will. Nor mine. They're a shared space for all to enjoy and to assume your enjoyment is more important than mine, or the next person's is arrogant and rude.

 

[coffeejo]

And it's not like stuff getting blown out of a car window on a motorway, is it? I mean, if these events really aren't races, people can just stop (safely of course), go back, and pick their accidentally dropped sh1t up, can't they.

I'd make them crawl back on their hands and knees into oncoming traffic.