View Poll Results: One or two bottle cages
I use two bottle cages, like most normal cyclists
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87.62%
I use one bottles cage, who needs two?
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11.88%
None! I'm a weight weenie
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0.50%
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One or two bottle cages?
03-01-09, 02:15 PM
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Why so much, you ask? Well, when I am out riding, I am not racing, merely training. So the extra weight actually helps me by forcing me to work harder, so that when I am actually racing (tri's), I have less weight and thus go faster. Plus, I never run out of water on my training rides, and on the tris, there are plenty of aid stations.
03-01-09, 03:17 PM
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03-01-09, 06:45 PM
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I only use one, but i also carry a bottle in my jersey pocket. this way your back stays cool!
03-01-09, 08:59 PM
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Four. My 5 hour ride today required 6 bottles just to get through it. (Ran out w/o a place to refill again) Drank 2 more since and I'm still waiting to urinate. On warm/hot days I need to drink 1 1/2 to 2 per hour. Thank goodness for salt tablets.
03-01-09, 09:08 PM
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As a professional sweater, I wish I had 3.
03-01-09, 09:20 PM
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03-01-09, 09:52 PM
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02-21-16, 06:04 PM
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02-21-16, 06:16 PM
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my friends carry 2 bottles on their boring carbon bikes. They are poseurs because they ride carbon and they have a high cadence and they carry 2 bottles like the pros now do. They bug me because my old bikes have one cage. I drink when they drink. The only difference is that I fill up at the turn. I sometimes think that maybe they are not just poseurs, but they are perhaps just too cheap to buy water at the turn. I also point out to them that the 30-34 km/hr speed their poseur cyclocomptuters ( or whatever the non-racer poseurs call them) tell us we are averaging doesn't make me sweat. Ps..sometimes I point out to them that they night be faster if they got rid of a bottle...lol On really hot days I will drop them ...go up ahead...buy and drink an ice cold coke.. Get back on my bike and wait for them to catch up.
02-21-16, 06:26 PM
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Indeed. A loser, not a poser
02-21-16, 06:49 PM
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[QUOTE=oldnslow2;18554033]7 year old topic???[/QUOTE
you are as bad as me now...lol. I guess they could just delete all these old topics/ threads, but then you wouldn't have anything to do either.
you are as bad as me now...lol. I guess they could just delete all these old topics/ threads, but then you wouldn't have anything to do either.
02-21-16, 06:51 PM
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Nothing wrong with posting in a old topic if you're actually adding something to the conversation. But what you did was add nothing other than adding to your post count.
02-21-16, 07:04 PM
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I believe the poll is closed.
02-21-16, 07:05 PM
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Gesus...in Texas 6 doesn't seem like much. I'd think you'd need 10 or more on a century there. No problem building up a sweat down there. I guess too you'd have to worry about running out in the middle of nowhere (as in avoiding dying). Do you ride your centuries just in the cooler months?
02-21-16, 07:12 PM
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Thought I commented on the poseur comment and the use of the term dwarf. I don't see the comment by the guy poseuring with his carbon bike (where's the speedo?) as adding a lot intellectally to any conversation and I guess you can say it wasn't a conversation since it was an old thread.
02-21-16, 07:17 PM
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Thought I commented on the poseur comment and the use of the term dwarf. I don't see the comment by the guy poseuring with his carbon bike (where's the speedo?) as adding a lot intellectally to any conversation and I guess you can say it wasn't a conversation since it was an old thread.