So what's in your bottle?

[Trek420]

If I'm on a long day ride, or it's hot I wear a Camelbak filled with water and 2 bottles of Gatorade on the bike. Very hot and or long ride I'll put an extra water bottle in a rear jersey pocket to refill the camelbak. I like Cytomax but Gatorade is less expensive and works, any flavor that matches my jersey...I spill a lot.

[DirtDiva]

Just water - only ride for an hour or two at a time and I don't like a lot of sports drinks, especially that "sports water" stuff (tastse like water with vinegar in it to me). Not a big fan of the windolene-blue flavour either, which is a shame because I usually wear a blue top when out for a bike ride.

[skibum]

I usually carry one bottle of water and one bottle of a sports drink. I used to mainly drink gatorade although I've recently started drinking the Powerbar Endurance drink.

[Veronica]

I've been thinking about trying Sustained Energy. In general I prefer to drink my calories rather than eat them.

V.

[CorsairMac]

Alacar (read Emergen-C) makes a replacement drink called Electro-Lyte which is sugar-free, mixes with water, has a very light taste and is very easy on the stomache. I either carry 2 bottles of that or put that in a CamelBack. Depends on what I'm doing and what the temp is that day!

[LBTC]

one camelbak bladder with water, one camelbak bladder with very lightly mixed (about 1/3 strength) lemon lime gatorade (I'm not very fond of the orange mix and the blue, although great in the bottle is nasty in the mix!!). on every mountain bike ride - varying degrees of fullness depending on ride length. on the road bike, it's one bottle of each.
varieties of sports drink mixes out here in the stix are limited, but my lbs can get cytomax, so I'm thinking of giving that a try. based on the above fuss-***-ness of flavours, can you recommend which flavour I should look for?
oh, yeah, and I tried accelerade once instead of gatorade. wow! was that ever bad!!

namaste,
~T~

[SadieKate]

LBTC -- I really like the Cytomax Tropical Punch mixed with Crystal Light Pink Lemonade (or yellow). We don't use the Cytomax full strength and the Crystal Light makes it very tasty and refreshing. You wouldn't know that you're drinking electrolytes. Cytomax gets good reviews for digestibility and helping with altitude sickness.

Our riding group had a large can of Accelerade that kept getting passed from one member to the next. Sort of a white elephant. Not sure who had to guts to finally throw it out. Who knows, it may be travelling the continent one scoop at a time.

I'll post a review on the new Pink Lemonade from Cytomax after this weekend. Maybe the Crystal Light cocktail will become obsolete.

[skibum]

oh, yeah, and I tried accelerade once instead of gatorade. wow! was that ever bad!!

Yeah, a lot of the roadies I ride with drink accelerade and rave about the benefits so I decided to give it a try. Just couldn't handle the taste... even tried it a couple of times to see if I'd get used to it. Nope, never could.

Last fall, one of the riders told me to give the new Powerbar drinks a try. They taste much better to me than accelerade/endurox although I can't say I notice much difference in hydration/performance over gatorade. Maybe I'll notice a difference when spring comes and I'm riding more.

[Di_Di]

just water and iced tea "Kazbegi" which is populat in my country..it helps..I also like MOuntain Dew...but water is the best for killing your thirsty!