Nature break?

**TrekTheKaty** · 07-14-2009, 11:07 AM

**channlluv** · 07-14-2009, 11:11 AM

eeeeeuuuuuuuuuuu!

**Kiwi Stoker** · 07-14-2009, 05:06 PM

I too have heard that team cars pass out cycling caps too as the visor can be used as a handle...

**Zen** · 07-14-2009, 05:32 PM

What's with the "ewwww"? Everybody poops. Just not in a hat

**TrekTheKaty** · 07-14-2009, 05:39 PM

Then what do you do with the hat? (I said, "do do"--get it?)

**channlluv** · 07-14-2009, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Zen

What's with the "ewwww"? Everybody poops. Just not in a hat

Yeah, not in a hat, even with a handle, with people pushing you and other people watching and probably cameras around...I mean, really, how dedicated a teammate do you have to be? Do they make the rookies do the pushing? "Hey, new guy, Fabio has to #2...go give him a push."

:P

Roxy

**kenyonchris** · 07-14-2009, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by channlluv

Yeah, not in a hat, even with a handle, with people pushing you and other people watching and probably cameras around...I mean, really, how dedicated a teammate do you have to be? Do they make the rookies do the pushing? "Hey, new guy, Fabio has to #2...go give him a push."

:P

Roxy

OK, THAT was funny.

**MartianDestiny** · 07-14-2009, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by channlluv

Yeah, not in a hat, even with a handle, with people pushing you and other people watching and probably cameras around...I mean, really, how dedicated a teammate do you have to be? Do they make the rookies do the pushing? "Hey, new guy, Fabio has to #2...go give him a push."

:P

Roxy

LOL, and how are they organizing the #2 pushes with team radios banned? It could get messy!

**denda** · 07-15-2009, 09:40 AM

Y'all are making me laugh.

**Owlie** · 07-15-2009, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by denda

Y'all are making me laugh.

Yeah, I nearly choked on a cherry...

**cylegoddess** · 07-20-2009, 12:11 AM

I saw Cadel, in one of the Tours - well Liggett was commentating and the camera had come to Cadel, who was caught in the act and gesturing quite wildly for them to piss off!( Literally). Liggett said, 'oh whoops Cadel is needing a natural break'.

Cadel looked pretty upset.
I told this to hubby while watching with him, and he said - gee, dont they pee on their shoes and bikes and stuff? Doesnt it spray up on the tarmac and hit the peloton? They must smell pretty bad at the end of the day

I hadnt thought it that far

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**Trigress** · 07-21-2009, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by channlluv

Don't the bibs make #1 nigh on impossible to do while riding, too? Or do they have some kind of opening like Y-front briefs?

Men's bibs are normally a little lower cut in the front, precisely for this purpose. My DH is an experience road cyclist, and one of those who pee from the saddle. He never buys a bib that isn't low cut in the front, I suppose he's realised what difference the cut makes.

And those bibs really are quite low - I have taken over an old bib of his, it's a men's size small (it's a pearl izumi), which is a little large for me, hence reaches quite a lot higher on me than it would on a man, and when my short ladies' jersey rides up I occasionally get a gap on my lower belly. I don't think it would require even a well hung rider to be able to pull it down for a pee.

**papaver** · 07-21-2009, 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by alpinerabbit

Yes, it's etiquette not to tape them doing their potty breaks.

If you're not too shocked yet -
There's an epic story about a famed german rider, now retired, breakfast consisting of a couple bowls of muesli, a call of nature at a critical moment in the race, and a cycling cap.
Plus helpful friends "pushing him along"... I guess you get the idea

that happened this year during the giro too.

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