Mr. Beanz

Miss Bumble inspired thread:Thumb:

Actually got a couple, One involves Fig Newtons. I was on a metric with 7k of climbing. I had packed a few Figgies into baggie then stored them in my jersey pockets. It was a warm day and I was working hard trying to stay ahead of my training 150lb rabbit. I had passed him then went for the drop. So I was sweating more than usual. I had taken a few of the figgies out of the baggie for easy access on a climb. I reached back to grab one then realized removing them from the baggie was a mistake!

Oh they were soaked with sweat! Yuck! But no way was I going to risk running low on fuel allowing the skinny to catch back up! Well I had eaten one thing nastier than what I had now, that's the next story. Really, FN's aren't that bad when soggy! A bit salty but not too bad!

The other was on a training ride involving plenty of climbing. We were at about mile 40 when I seriously ran low on energy. I couldn't figure it out as I had a good breakfast and felt great at the beginning of the ride. A while later I noticed that my tire was running low on air. A slow leak? Great, that explains it. I was struggling to keep up with my better climbing bud while running low on pressure.

I was so exhausted. The flat tire break did me good but I felt like I was about to bonk. He offered half a Clif Bar he tucked into his thigh band. It was wrapped but no very well. I didn't realize it till after I had started munching the sucker. EEEGADS! Nasty salty sweaty yucky stuff. He's a bigtime sweater and dripper, even in the cool temps! It was too late! I'll never forget that one! But I think the bar did it's job! Talk about salt replacement!

Tom Stormcrowe

It wasn't on a Clyde ride, but it was an endurance event of sorts. It was my graduation exercise for a Survival training course I had to go through before I went to work for DeBeers in Africa. It was live termite grubs, fresh out of the log. I was dropped 100 miles out in a wilderness area with 2 pairs of socks, a snare, a knife and a flint and steel, and a compass. I had to walk out. I had a locater to ping if I wanted pickup or got hurt, but a pickup was a washout.

Interestingly enough, they don't taste bad.

StephenH

Only thing nasty I've eaten on a ride has been a few gnats.

Alathea

I went out with a friend to an area where they did Ranger training and he showed me some of the stuff they did....MMmMMmmMmm.....

My parents were kind of survivalist/hunter/trapper types, so I have scraped raw hides and eaten more other raw stuff than I like to contemplate. I worked in CO one summer at a church camp outside of Ft. Collins in the Mtns. and laughed when people would complain about the consistency of 'hiker' bars. Some are definitely better than others.


Worst for me when biking has got to be dumping protein drink mix out of my Nalgene, rinsing it out quick, then filling with water and fridging it. Rode to work the next day and cracked the cap at my desk to drink after cooling off and my coworker on the other side of the partition said "what the hell.....". I breathed in after drinking and can say I haven't smelled much worse.

Neil_B

Powerbars. As I posted a few months ago, one of the ingredients is a laxative so powerful Australia requires a warning label on products using it.

Missbumble 

Mr Beanz- My fig newton was not bad at all.. I thought it was what you bikers ate on rides! Do you object to clean Fig Newtons - or just wet sweaty mushy ones? (Yeck!)

Mr. Beanz

Oh no no no no, didn't mean anything was wrong with them. I love 'em, just not sweat drenched. Your fig post just sparked my memory of my schweaty account!

cohophysh

The mouthful of gnats during my last ride, mixed with a little G2 and sweat, yummy protein, however they were kind a chewy, I'd prefer them crunchy

B Piddy

SICK!! I don't know how anyone is gonna beat that.

bautieri

Could be worse, at least it wasn't tucked into his waist band mmm, sweaty dude crotch. Speaking of which I think that is a powerbar flavor.

Worst for me...Carb-Boom peach and banana gel. It was horrible, I wouldn't even give that flavor to someone I didn't like.

krazygluon

As an attempt to get the stink out of my gear, I wash some of it in apple cider vinegar. Apparently I didn't rinse it well enough one time and not only did I have sweat dripping down my face and into my mouth, I had this super-salty vingar-ish sweat...ACK

Although I will say that your garden variety granola bar that tastes good and sweet and practically candy at room temp is a whole other, significantly less appetizing flavor/texture on a hundred degree day in the back of a jersey for 2 hours.

Tom Stormcrowe

Margarita Shot Blocks are pretty nasty


Hammer Heed is nasty, unless you need it badly, then it tastes like the Nectar of the Gods.

Neil_B

Hmm, I like those!

keithm0

Don't think of them as sweaty, think of them as "electrolyte replacement" fig newtons.

Either way -- eeeww.

keithm0

To the "nasty things eaten on a ride" list, I'll add every gel-like product I've ever tried (and I've tried a lot). I like the idea of these -- small, light, calorie dense, etc. I just think they're disgusting.

evblazer

Does drinking out of a nearly black camelback hose count as eating something ewww?
Cardio and Immune system workout in one!

I try not to eat anything more then fruit leathers or granola bars on rides to avoid any ride affecting consequences.

smyth

only nasty thing i've eaten on a ride was a GU Gel that was vanilla flavor. i like the other flavors enough to deal with it, but after riding for a while the vanilla tastes like horrid, warm, vanilla cake icing. i guess it doesn't help that i don't like cake or icing to begin with but for me it's nasty on a ride, i throw them in the freezer over night now before i am going to use them and pray that by the time i get to them they're still at least a little bit cold.
actually now that i think about it i think the hot, gross vanilla gel was still better than a powerbar. i know some people like them i just think those things are nasty, i'll take a Cliff any day instead.
but yeah, nothing sweaty has happened for me yet though, out on the bike though unless you are planning on stopping anyway you don't really have a choice, whatever you brought is what you've got and whatever condition its in is the way you're going to have to eat it.

i agree with you a bit about the gels. it takes a while to get used to them. Though for the most part i don't think it's the taste as much as its the texture and consistancy. it feels like you have... something gross in your mouth.

keithm0

That's a definite "ewwww" in my book!

Mazama

Not really eaten... I had no choice but to drink water from a park on a long ride. It tasted like sulfer. It was like choking down rotten eggs on every gulp. I drunk about 100 oz. of the stuff. Puke.

Stujoe

I ate a banana once that was a little busied from being in the rack pack for an hour or so. Yeah, it sounds kind of wimpy compare to the Survivorman stuff you guys are doing out there. lol

Mr. Beanz

The orange gels aren't all that bad. Remind me of the 50-50 bars I had as a kid (orange/vanilla)!

Ranger63

Can we include drink?
Last monday, doing a very very fast 34 miler around Grand Island NY)and the club takes a break at the old nike (yep missles)base.
I top off my water bottle at the sink.
NO sign nada to tell me the water used in the terlits and wash basins came directly from the Niagara River.
It is now day 4 and Montezuma is still here.

coasting 

i ate road kill. If no road kill available I would dhave killed and eaten my riding partner