Yes, we have no bananas

[Dave Davenport]

Bananas, a staple cycling snack. So why don't you ever see any being scoffed by the pro peleton?

 

[ColinJ]

Hard to peel when riding in the bunch?

 

[Dave Davenport]

Hard to peel when riding in the bunch?

Get your coat!

 

[Ajay]

Fyffes don't pay the teams to eat them.

 

[redcard]

Either they're pre-peeled and mashed on bread, or the calorie-to-volume ratio makes them impractical.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

Perhaps it is because you can only see what you are looking for...

 

[Peteaud]

The peel would cause a lot of crashes.

 

[MrJamie]

Perhaps it is because you can only see what you are looking for...

Should have kept his eyes peeled...

 

[cyberknight]

Probably because i have never seen much footage of the peleton actually eating much from their musettes, makes for boring tv in the eyes of the producers and others have said probably a bit hard to handle on the road.
its a lance quote but ..
"A pro-cyclist like Lance Armstrong ate a huge amount to fuel his training and racing regime.
Cyclists riding in the Tour de France need up to 7000 calories per day.
Armstrong's race-day breakfast was a bowl of pasta with an egg, cheese and basil on top and a sports drink.
Then there is a light carb-filled lunch and more sports drink about an hour before the stage starts. Throughout the stage, food and drink are collected by the cyclists en route - sandwiches, energy bars & gels, fruit and even baked-potatoes!.
Immediately after the finish, more sports drink starts the recovery phase. Then there is a carbohydrate-rich meal as soon as possible and later a full dinner with potatoes or rice and steamed veg."
straight from to the peletons mouth..
http://www.bicycling.com/training-nutrition/fast-foods

 

[Chuffy]

Messy in the pocket, awkward to peel and lethal when dropped on the road. Oh and sticky. Very annoying having sticky fingers for 150k.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

The peel would cause a lot of crashes.

They certainly do in Mario Kart.

 

[Chuffy]

They certainly do in Mario Kart.

Awesome! That's what the Tour needs to liven up the first week (for people with short attention spans who think it's boring). Weapons. Not guns, missiles or blue shells. No, found weapons. Bananananana skins, bidons, big green hands, small children. Ballistic Haribo.

 

[raindog]

a plate o' pasta's what you need

 

[PaulB]

I read that it's because it is difficult to digest because of the amount of fibre so you don't see them anymore. HOWEVER....yesterday, in the warm-up to the kick-off of the stage, Eurosport showed Sky team's nutrition-waller getting the food ready for the team. He took a panini, cut it down the middle, scooped out a trench of bread, filled this trench with Phillidelphia cheese, a banana split down the long aspect and then squirted some sticky goo (may have been Maple syrup), put the top half of the thing back on, cut it into eight small chunks and wrapped each one individually before writing on a flap what each one contained.

 

[Red Light]

I read that it's because it is difficult to digest because of the amount of fibre so you don't see them anymore. HOWEVER....yesterday, in the warm-up to the kick-off of the stage, Eurosport showed Sky team's nutrition-waller getting the food ready for the team. He took a panini, cut it down the middle, scooped out a trench of bread, filled this trench with Phillidelphia cheese, a banana split down the long aspect and then squirted some sticky goo (may have been Maple syrup), put the top half of the thing back on, cut it into eight small chunks and wrapped each one individually before writing on a flap what each one contained.

I'm guessing WADA haven't got a test for Philly and banana and sticky goo yet then. No doubt they'll add it to the charges against LA soon though.