How long a ride deserves a cafe stop?

[Deleted member 1258]

Just for you lot :

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A 37 mile ride if you were wondering.

 

[Aravis]

My first cycling-related cafe stop of the year today, at Whiddon Down, on the northern edge of Dartmoor after an extremely slow 110 miles:

I was waiting for my car to return from its visit to deepest Cornwall. I knew there'd be some cake in the car.

 

[Banjo]

I once had a massive pasty with half a stone of mashed potato and gravy at the famous West End Café in Llandovery.
My ride buddy couldn't believe I ordered it just prior to the hilly section of the Carmarthen Snapper.
Bit heavy for a few miles but once the calories started fuelling me up I flew the rest of the ride..

Another claim to fame was the large full English at the café at the bottom of the Cheddar Gorge with Pikey on The Tasty Cheddar Ride.
OK quite a few lightweights passed me going up the gorge but it was worth it :-)

 

[Profpointy]

Daftest thread. Ever.

That's a very big claim indeed !

 

[Banjo]

That's a very big claim indeed !

Certainly some strong competition. :-)

 

[TheDoctor]

I once did a ride with cafe stops in Ashwell, Stotfold Mill, Radwell and Baldock.
16 miles, since you ask.
In my defence, I'd done well over 100 miles the day before, going to Hunstanton.

 

[mjr]

None, I'm out training on a bike not looking to fill my face with cake and crap I'v seen people sitting eating full English and bacon sandwiches, however I have to say they do look like people who eat this stuff regardless of if hey get on a bike or not, everyone to their own though, strangely enough they actually do think that it's ok to eat this stuff for some reason they think that getting back on a bike for a few miles with all this crap swishing about in their guts is doing them good

Probably still less harmful than the telly tubby blow job masquerading as gels and what are you training for anyway? How to have no fun?

 

[Alan O]

Probably still less harmful than the telly tubby blow job masquerading as gels and what are you training for anyway? How to have no fun?

LOL - I've never heard gels described quite like that before (but they are horrid).

 

[mjr]

LOL - I've never heard gels described quite like that before (but they are horrid).

I think it's originally from someone like gaz BICBW and I can't find the original. It's part of a much more graphic (and disturbing) description which has got rather stuck in my mind.

 

[postman]

Anything after 12 miles and again at the end.Otley my fave place is around 12 miles away.Then Headingley is at the end another 12 miles.I enjoy my breaks.

 

[reacher]

I once had a massive pasty with half a stone of mashed potato and gravy at the famous West End Café in Llandovery.
My ride buddy couldn't believe I ordered it just prior to the hilly section of the Carmarthen Snapper.
Bit heavy for a few miles but once the calories started fuelling me up I flew the rest of the ride..

Another claim to fame was the large full English at the café at the bottom of the Cheddar Gorge with Pikey on The Tasty Cheddar Ride.
OK quite a few lightweights passed me going up the gorge but it was worth it :-)

Sorry but that's rubbish, theirs no recovery value in eating that and getting back on a bike

 

[reacher]

Probably still less harmful than the telly tubby blow job masquerading as gels and what are you training for anyway? How to have no fun?

Don't use those either, like I said everyone to their own and if you want to eat this stuff in the middle of a ride is fine, it's just not part of a serious training regime is all

 

[swansonj]

Don't use those either, like I said everyone to their own and if you want to eat this stuff in the middle of a ride is fine, it's just not part of a serious training regime is all

As you say, everyone to their own. Personally, the day anyone mistakes me for being on a serious training regime - or at least, a training regime serious enough to interfere with my eating exactly what I want to - is the day I give up cycling

 

[reacher]

Well it could be you would have to check with team sky, maybe those bags they give to riders in the middle of a stage race have bacon sandwiches in them, marginal gains an all

 

[mjr]

Well it could be you would have to check with team sky, maybe those bags they give to riders in the middle of a stage race have bacon sandwiches in them, marginal gains an all

Ham, cheese or jam rather than bacon and not team sky (who mostly have rice balls in the musettes IIRC) but panninis have been used for years. https://www.roadbikerider.com/health-and-nutrition/nutrition/682-what-s-in-a-musette-bag