Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
My significant other volunteered last year to hand up waterbottles at a feedzone on the level, and she was saying that all the volunteers were *****ing a bit about guys coming in hot.
It takes about 10 seconds to teach someone to do a proper handup so that they can do it at speed with no practice. The first time I had to do it was when I was recruited 30 minutes before a pro circuit race, shown how to do it, thrown into a car with 120 water bottles and told to follow the caravan til it got to the feed zone. Me and my friend didn't miss a handup, and at the end of the day in 100 F temperatures were hitting the remaining rider from the team with 4 bottles per pass through the feed zone.