I am changing the content of my water bottle.

[gavroche]

Just before I went for a ride tonight I drank a can of cider, just by chance really as I didn't know then that I was going to go for a ride. The effect of the cider on my physical ability was amazing. I covered 15 miles at an average speed of 13.7 mph, which is normally 12 to 12.5 mph. So I decided to put cider in my water bottle from now on, it gives me wings.

 

[wonderloaf]

Ahhhh, but what cider .... the cloudy stuff from the West Country?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ahhhh, but what cider .... the cloudy stuff from the West Country?

That would never be UCI legal ....






.... But who cares!

 

[gavroche]

It is Magner's, from Asda. As my water bottle is 500 ml, it is still within the legal limit.

 

[ayceejay]

I had Somerset scrumpy once - it didn't give me wings only the trots

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Good for you: if I'd put cider in my water bottle I'd be unable to ride: I haven't had alcohol in years!

 

[raleighnut]

If you've got 2 bottle cages then these will keep you going for at least a 'metric' century, they just fit nicely.................DAMHIKT

 

[midlife]

I wonder if Hull Thursday Road Club still do their Boxing Day 10 ? Whisky at the roundabout half way

Shaun

 

[wonderloaf]

Someone recommended White Lightning to me but personally I found it a bit oily and the bottles weren't very big ...

 

[Globalti]

Er.... Magners isn't cider, it's carbonated water with ethanol and some apple flavour and preservative. It absolutely stinks of sulphur dioxide. I wouldn't glorify any of that industrial garbage with the name "cider".

 

[Hill Wimp]

I apparently take on the cycling ability of Chris Froome when i drink Gin so @hopless500 tells me.

 

[benb]

It is Magner's, from Asda. As my water bottle is 500 ml, it is still within the legal limit.

There is no concept of a legal alcohol limit when it comes to cycling. It's not like driving, where if you have consumed over the prescribed limit* you are guilty of an offence regardless of your standard of driving, and if you are under it you are not.

With cycling, It is an offence for a person to ride a cycle on a road or other public place when unfit to ride through drink or drugs**. That is, that they are under the influence of a drink or a drug to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the cycle. In practice that means being observed as such by a police officer. I'd cycle on 3 pints. I wouldn't drive on more than 1.

* 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath;
or 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood;
or 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine.
** Section 30 Road Traffic Act 1988

 

[martint235]

I wonder if Hull Thursday Road Club still do their Boxing Day 10 ? Whisky at the roundabout half way

Shaun

On LEL, I think it was the Traquair control that had whisky available. I remember hitting the control at about 8am after having got soaked on the way from Edinburgh. The whisky looked very tempting but my thoughts were "If I start drinking that now, I'll never leave"

 

[hopless500]

I apparently take on the cycling ability of Chris Froome when i drink Gin so @hopless500 tells me.

Well, you do get faster, but you don't tend to crouch on the crossbar and pedal awkwardly

 

[gavroche]

Er.... Magners isn't cider, it's carbonated water with ethanol and some apple flavour and preservative. It absolutely stinks of sulphur dioxide. I wouldn't glorify any of that industrial garbage with the name "cider".

If it was possible, I would get Normandy cider , much tastier but a long way from North Wales to get it. Planning to go over to France in October so will fill the car boot with it, as well as proper mayonnaise. I do miss that. Hellsman's mayo is crap, can't stand it.