Gel's or Jelly Babie's ????

ayjaycee

My preference is few Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles or Gums. I hate gels but accept they have their place on longer rides (but, for me, in very limited quantity if at all). Never read the ingredients list on any of them as I would be afraid of not recognising all the chemical symbols!

pblakeney

john1967 wrote:

If you can taste a gel, you're not cycling hard enough.
If you can chew a jelly baby, you're not cycling hard enough.
If you can spell correctly, you're not cycling hard enough.

cubedean

Imposter wrote:

gazeds wrote:

Gel's or Jelly Babie's.

Embarrassingly-awful grammar. You don't need an apostrophe in order to pluralise a word.

Let the flaming commence.

You're about 6 posts late.

Monty Dog

Having just completed a 38.5hr winter race in the arctic, my conclusion is that I couldn't have completed it without both! Frustratingly, I had a bag full of Clif bars but due to cold making them hard and tasteless plus it taking longer between stops to get water they were the last thing I wanted to put in my mouth - they tasted like dry-rubble that simply sucked every bit of moisture from your mouth!

imposter2.0

cubedean wrote:

Imposter wrote:

gazeds wrote:

Gel's or Jelly Babie's.

Embarrassingly-awful grammar. You don't need an apostrophe in order to pluralise a word.

Let the flaming commence.

You're about 6 posts late.

I know, I took the liberty of reading the thread before posting.

weezyswiss

Imposter wrote:

john1967 wrote:

If you can taste a gel your not cycling hard enough.
If you can chew a jelly baby your not cycling hard enough.
If you can spell correctly your not cycling hard enough.

Were you cycling hard when you wrote that?

Obviously as he wrote your and not you're and the grammar nazis missed it !!!

theraggyone

gels/energy bars/bananas on long rides because if i buy a bag of jelly babies they are all gone in 5 minutes..... no self control.....

imposter2.0

WeezySwiss wrote:

Imposter wrote:

john1967 wrote:

If you can taste a gel your not cycling hard enough.
If you can chew a jelly baby your not cycling hard enough.
If you can spell correctly your not cycling hard enough.

Were you cycling hard when you wrote that?

Obviously as he wrote your and not you're and the grammar nazis missed it !!!

Except they didn't...?

weezyswiss

Imposter wrote:

Except they didn't...?

Yeah, I missed them

bernithebiker

Vis fred is reely good entataynment!

clickrumble

Flap-jack's for me.

dstev55

Debeli wrote:

It is my belief (and therefore right) that only a tiny, tiny percentage of top riders make any gain from using gels.

What a load of rubbish. On what basis do you substantiate your beliefs?

Gels are basically a small hit of carbs that are digested and turned in to usable energy quickly that will benefit anyone that needs a top up of energy.

Jelly babies are essentially the same without the marketing babble.

milemuncher1

dstev55 wrote:

Debeli wrote:

It is my belief (and therefore right) that only a tiny, tiny percentage of top riders make any gain from using gels.

What a load of rubbish. On what basis do you substantiate your beliefs?

Gels are basically a small hit of carbs that are digested and turned in to usable energy quickly that will benefit anyone that needs a top up of energy.

Jelly babies are essentially the same without the marketing babble.

^^^^
Exactly.

SME

Bobbinogs wrote:

Yepp, wot he said ^^^

+1!!!

And as for no gels, and just water with orange juice in....

Some years back I had throat cancer, the treatment for which has left me with virtually no saliva. Drinks like orange juice are 'acidic' to me now

I usually boil some water and put some sugar in, then leave to cool over night. This helps line my mouth and throat, and gives me energy.

I used to love jelly babies but the fine sugar coating makes them dry, but good when washed down with the above. And I find gels easy to swallow, and compact to carry. A couple of bananas are good too.

There... I HAVE SPOKEN!!! But unlike 'Judge Dredd' above. I do not hold other views as irrelevant - we're all different and the individual has to see what works for them. So try gels and jelly babies and see what's best for you.

Good luck,
Steve

imposter2.0

Clickrumble wrote:

Flap-jack's for me.

I see what you did there..

briantrumpet

Imposter wrote:

Thanks. It's a lot of fuss over a hyphen, which isn't even out of place. Google is great for dispelling those moments of self-doubt that you sometimes get on internet forums. Worth checking that I had correctly remembered what my old Editor had taught me, as my memory is not always 100% reliable...

Apologies, but...

"An adverb/adjective combination in which the adverb ends in “-LY” is never hyphenated" (from the Chicago Manual of Style, see http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/hyphenation.html).

I'll admit I have more fun picking apart other pedants' English than that of people who clearly have difficulties. If you haven't read 'Bad English' by Ammon Shea (he who read the OED cover-to-cover in a year), it's worth the effort, as it does rather open your eyes to how some of the favourite targets of pedants are often somewhat arbitrary, and are more a matter of taste rather than having any logical underpinning.

imposter2.0

Kin'ell Brian, this seems to have affected you quite deeply....

briantrumpet

Imposter wrote:

Kin'ell Brian, this seems to have affected you quite deeply....

First stage in the recovery process is to admit you'll always be a pedant...

"I'm Brian, and I'm a pedant."

You have to be able to walk past a greengrocer's shop and not go in when you see their apostrophes on display...

Anonymous

Nice one gazeds (strangely absent from own thread).

Shall we do carbon bottle cages next? They really fcuk tightwads off

SME

bernithebiker wrote:

Vis fred is reely good entataynment!

pmsl !!!

lakesluddite

Gels or Jelly Babies? No choice, I'm one of those bird-seed eating vegetarians (bordering on vegan).

I do prefer proper food though, flapjacks/energy bars/soreen etc, but if I'm on a long ride I'll pack a gel or two should the man with the hammer show his face.

drummer_boy

Jelly Babies with a fig roll chaser!

weezyswiss

^^^ Definitely this. Throw in some home made flapjacks too

pastryboy

I don't like either of the two choices, why are there only two choices to pick from?

For me it's raisins, chopped dates, nakd bars/nibbles and the dried fruit bars/drops marketed at kids.

Anonymous

pastryboy wrote:

I don't like either of the two choices, why are there only two choices to pick from?

There's not just two
The OP and people with large chips on their shoulders try to make it look that way :roll:

Have you really tried every gel and sports based nutritional product to know that you do not like any of them?
Or is deeper than just taste?

Personally I see no difference between a Naked bar and a Cliff bar, and am not interested in trying to take some sort of odd moral high ground by listing complicated/cool snack lists.

gazeds

Carbonator wrote:

Nice one gazeds (strangely absent from own thread).

Shall we do carbon bottle cages next? They really fcuk tightwads off

Ha ha, you couldn't make it up, could you.

Anonymous

Just had a look on Cliff's website and they have some very tempting flavors I would love to try, as well as some that would make me w'retch.

Pizza Margarita............ Gel!!! (green face smiley)

homers_double

3 pages in and the important issue hasn't been dicussed, can you bite the head off a gel?

NeXXus

I use both when the occasion suits

briantrumpet

I never know whether to have a false or a real dichotomy. It's a shame it has to be either/or. If it's impossible to choose, I'll go for a paradox instead, though they're never really the answer.