Scottypows
New Member
What would be on your ultimate bike event feed station? Covid proofed so everything has to be individually packed etc.....
Bike Feed Stations - Sportive
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Coffee and cake(s), dates, cashews, and flapjack for the road. Flan or pasta salad for lunch. Ice cream late afternoon. I'm probably not typical, as bananas and sugary shoot seem popular at feed stations!
Individual wrapping doesn't seem like covid-proofing to me. It seems like the important thing would be to dispense food to each person, rather than them dipping their snotty mitts into boxes or packets of food, wrapped or not.
Individual wrapping doesn't seem like covid-proofing to me. It seems like the important thing would be to dispense food to each person, rather than them dipping their snotty mitts into boxes or packets of food, wrapped or not.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
My memory of feed stations from various charity distance events is just flapjacks, a sea of flapjacks. It seems like it was the ever present. That and bananas.
I was mostly only stopping for the fluids (because I hoover up liquid and I find it hard to eat). I've really valued the free energy sachets, High5 I think was popular.
If I had a choice and it had to be individually packaged it'd be something unctuous and delicious, Clif bars probably. White choc and macadamia preferably.
I was mostly only stopping for the fluids (because I hoover up liquid and I find it hard to eat). I've really valued the free energy sachets, High5 I think was popular.
If I had a choice and it had to be individually packaged it'd be something unctuous and delicious, Clif bars probably. White choc and macadamia preferably.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Chocolate brownies, banana and jam sandwiches, mixed nuts and raisins.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Mini Melton Mowbray pies and flapjack.
SydZ
Über Member
- Location
- Planet Earth
I can’t recall which sportive it was but I arrived a one stop to find fig rolls on offer. They went down well!
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I’m usually open to anything at a feed stop! Salted peanuts, jelly beans, flapjack, fig rolls, Bakewell slices… it’s all welcome.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I did the first Tour de Yorkshire sportive (which cost me around £50) and all there was when I got to the first feed station was...
... small boiled potatoes and a tub of salt to dip them in!
... small boiled potatoes and a tub of salt to dip them in!
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Guinness. Salted peanuts. Galaxy chocolate.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Yep, I did the TdY that year and the organisation was awful, probably the worst I've encountered. The feed stops were nothing but bowls of jelly beans and jelly babies.I did the first Tour de Yorkshire sportive (which cost me around £50) and all there was when I got to the first feed station was...
... small boiled potatoes and a tub of salt to dip them in!
Great route though. Enjoyed the crowds.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Sausage rolls.
I made my annual-ish visit to sportive-land last weekend, when I did the Hell of the Ashdown. And yes, they had lots and lots of sausage rolls at the feed stations. They were excellent, even the vegan ones I picked up by mistake were good. At the second one they had pizza on offer but I really didn't fancy pizza at the time. So I had some extra sausage rolls.
Other things I've enjoyed at feed stations/audax controls have been: Pasta (I remember giant containers of pasta in sauce at a control on the Ditchling Devil audax one year, similar on the Kingdom of the East Saxons) Salted peanuts, flapjacks (there are always flapjacks), cake, doughnuts.
And ice cream. This isn't something I've been offered on an organised ride but I do like to pull over on long hot rides and have some ice cream.
Bananas are often present. Meh.
I made my annual-ish visit to sportive-land last weekend, when I did the Hell of the Ashdown. And yes, they had lots and lots of sausage rolls at the feed stations. They were excellent, even the vegan ones I picked up by mistake were good. At the second one they had pizza on offer but I really didn't fancy pizza at the time. So I had some extra sausage rolls.
Other things I've enjoyed at feed stations/audax controls have been: Pasta (I remember giant containers of pasta in sauce at a control on the Ditchling Devil audax one year, similar on the Kingdom of the East Saxons) Salted peanuts, flapjacks (there are always flapjacks), cake, doughnuts.
And ice cream. This isn't something I've been offered on an organised ride but I do like to pull over on long hot rides and have some ice cream.
Bananas are often present. Meh.
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FishFright
More wheels than sense
Pie, chips and a pint.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
new legs
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
One sportive I did had the usual suspects at every feed station - bananas, gels, flapjacks, whatever the sponsor provided - but allowed the staff manning them the freedom to add their own touches. At the first you passed, which was quite early in the morning, someone had gotten hold of a mass delivery of pain au chocolats which were gratefully received, at a later one there were mini sausage rolls, and towards the end there was one with packets of crisps (many different flavours too) on offer. There apparently were also cakes at one I didn't stop at, but it meant that there was always that bit of variety so you weren't getting the same tastes all the time, plus a balance of sweet and savoury, which I liked.
