How long a ride deserves a cafe stop?

[User269]

Cafe stops are an abomination, and are never justified on any ride.
Why sit around freezing in sweat soaked clothing, eating and drinking muck, when you could get back home asap and be comfortable as well as mowing the lawn and walking the dog? Unless of course it's important to you to sit around yuk-yukking (as my American friends call it) about wot a larf we's havin' and wot a bunch of all round heroes we are.............isn't that what Twitter's for?
I'll get me coat................

 

[vickster]

I realise you're joking presumably...Not every ride actually involves getting sweaty...we don't all race everywhere nor with a club, perhaps that coffee stop is with friends who you actually want to converse with

 

[kingrollo]

A cafe stop eats into training time. I try to eat on the go - stopping only for the calls of nature.

 

[User269]

I realise you're joking presumably...Not every ride actually involves getting sweaty...we don't all race everywhere nor with a club, perhaps that coffee stop is with friends who you actually want to converse with

Bah! Humbug!

 

[TheDoctor]

I suppose it's possible to go on a ride without a cafe stop.
It might be too late for cafes, frinstance, so a pub stop is called for.

 

[User269]

Take the humbugs with you, saves having to stop, just don't choke on one .

The humbugs, ie a person or thing that behaves in a dishonest way, most certainly will not be taken with me! No sirrah!*

*Unless made of titanium or carbon fibre.

 

[vickster]

A cafe stop eats into training time. I try to eat on the go - stopping only for the calls of nature.

Why even bother to stop to pee, the pros don't

 

[Levo-Lon]

The little cafe half way around the Beast at CyB is about right being a fenland mountain man....

 

[bikingdad90]

My 25 mike bike ride had a cafe stop at mile 12. It was Lordstones Cafe at the top of Carlton Bank. I got up in a time of 15:44 with three stops for breath (unfit with little or no training and it was blowing a gale) but I rode the darn thing! No where near as fast as the local Tanfield boys or @jamma.

 

[Leodis]

Usually for me its the weekend spin, 40-80 miles will include a breakfast buttie or cake. If I am training say for hills I will take a narna and some gels but nothing beats a bacon buttie, pot of tea and the Yorkshire countryside

 

[presta]

I don't use cafes, it's cheaper to take my own food & drink. Up to about 30m I did non-stop, 30-45 I did in an afternoon with a break to eat some biscuits or nuts. More than that, and I took a packed lunch and made a day of it. On a full day ride I tried to stop every hour.

 

[jefmcg]

It's the wrong question. The actually question is "how short can I ride be before a cafe stop?"

 

[vickster]

Daftest thread. Ever.

Do you have Accy on permanent ignore then?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Any ride of 40 miles or more will usually involve a cafe stop.

 

[Katherine]

Just for you lot :

A 37 mile ride if you were wondering.