Will it make me look like a pro?
37monkey
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I'm doing my first ever race this weekend and I wanted to know would it make me look more like a pro if when I finish my drink I launch my bottle into the hedge row? 
Why do they do that? :?
Why do they do that? :? 0
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You can do it if you like. Even at our local Thursday night club races you'll see the water bottles flying on the last lap. Not sure if it ever made anyone look like a pro but.......0
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37monkey wrote:I'm doing my first ever race this weekend and I wanted to know would it make me look more like a pro if when I finish my drink I launch my bottle into the hedge row? Why do they do that? :?
Saves on weight.
They can do it in the safe knowledge that it'll be picked up by a fan.
No such luck for your kind of racing i suspect, though feel free to prove me wrong!
Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0 -
i throw them to my dad when he watches me
my team mate threw one towards the commisaire box at hillingdon in the e123 on saturday, it was half full and hit a bloke in the stomach 0 -
CondorWill wrote:i throw them to my dad when he watches me
my team mate threw one towards the commisaire box at hillingdon in the e123 on saturday, it was half full and hit a bloke in the stomach
Lol quality.
Some races are long enough you can't feasibly carry enough drink, so if they have a feed you need to chuck your bottle before you get there. I try and drink as much as possible in the few miles running up to the feed, so it's mostly empty when they get it."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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Wearing stockings & suspenders, a short skirt and too much make up will make you look like a pro. You may even earn your bus fare home. Cycling weakly0
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It’s mostly a behaviour/nervous pattern – when profis throw their bottles away, they’re mostly empty anyway and wouldn’t make any difference weightwise to any sprint. It’s like profi footballers spit, they have no need but it’s the ‘done thing’ out of habit or nerves; you don’t find much spitting at the amateur football level .
I think throwing your bottle away would make you look like a pretentious …. spendthrift.0 -
knedlicky wrote:I think throwing your bottle away would make you look like a pretentious …. spendthrift.
Absolutely. Fine to chuck the bottle away time after time if you can (a) afford to buy new ones on a never-ending basis or (b) can remember where you chucked it then go back and retrieve it afterwards!
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
DavidBelcher wrote:
Absolutely. Fine to chuck the bottle away time after time if you can (a) afford to buy new ones on a never-ending basis or (b) can remember where you chucked it then go back and retrieve it afterwards!
David
I dropped one once on the last lap of a TT, rode back after I'd finished to try and find it. Nowhere to be seen, the verge was quite high so I'm sure it must have only rolled in the gutter.
In pro racing towards the end of the race I also think it's a case of have a last swig, and throw in an attempt to show the others in the group that you now mean business.
What do you do after a race and go to collect your bottle, that's in a bin with all the others collected at a feed station...... and 75% of them are SiS bottles? How do you know which one is yours?0 -
The only time I'll toss a bottle near the end of the race is when there is a lot left in there. When I do that, I make sure to toss it near a teammate to make sure I get it back afterwards. I know I can't afford to keep buying bottle after bottle. Although I am discussing it with my boss about ordering a case of Specialized bottles for our dealership with my information on it as advertising. Then, I don't have to worry about it 0
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hammerite wrote:DavidBelcher wrote:
Absolutely. Fine to chuck the bottle away time after time if you can (a) afford to buy new ones on a never-ending basis or (b) can remember where you chucked it then go back and retrieve it afterwards!
David
I dropped one once on the last lap of a TT, rode back after I'd finished to try and find it. Nowhere to be seen, the verge was quite high so I'm sure it must have only rolled in the gutter.
In pro racing towards the end of the race I also think it's a case of have a last swig, and throw in an attempt to show the others in the group that you now mean business.
What do you do after a race and go to collect your bottle, that's in a bin with all the others collected at a feed station...... and 75% of them are SiS bottles? How do you know which one is yours?
Because if you have any sense you will have written you name on you bottle beforehand, i often throw my bottle in crits as i find it gets me in a good mindset and looses the extra weight and its not far to collect it again, however in road races i normally empty any drink i have left in it onto the road0 -
ozzzyosborn206 wrote:Because if you have any sense you will have written you name on you bottle beforehand, i often throw my bottle in crits as i find it gets me in a good mindset and looses the extra weight and its not far to collect it again, however in road races i normally empty any drink i have left in it onto the road
I don't know if the minimum order size runs into silly numbers for just one rider, but Chicken & Sons run a personalised bottle-printing service for TA bidons and offer names, sponsors'/club logos, etc.
David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Get a white saddle and bartape too, makes you look like a pao and go faster. Extra double good. 8) 8)0
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I will usually toss my bottle away on the last lap, unless its nearly empty. Otherwise its weight I could do without. Plus it shows you mean business
I always retrieve it after the finish of course.Shazam !!0
