How to cycle and drink at the same time ?

[cindysue]

Once on a ride I was drinking, saw a pothole and kinda flipped out and threw the bottle into the path of the rider behind me. She was ok and kinda amused.

hahaha, sounds like something I would do.

I can ride and drink but I don't like it. I feel insecure every time!

[bcipam]

Why don't use a hydration pack all the time? I do. Easy to use and I feel allows me to drink more water. I hate reaching down and grabbing for a bottle and even worse, having to put it back. Also, if using a nutrition drink, the stuff gets all over. Yuck.

[Dianyla]

You'll have a lot better control of the bike if you move the handle-bar holding hand towards the center stem as you're using the other hand to reach for the bottle. If you keep holding the handlebar on the end it takes a lot more muscle control to not wobble.

And yeah, hydration packs are much nicer anyway. Easier drinking, more capacity.

[Geonz]

AFter y'ars and y'ars and many thousands of miles... I never got happy getting those drinks. Went to a CamelBak and life is much, much easier. I will put the Gatorade in a bottle... but don't quaff from it much in close company or traffic. (I don't put anything but water in the CamelBak 'cause I don't clean it enough... I've already got a reputation for drinking from bottles with strange growths in them...)

We've had at least one major crash in the club from somebody dropping a bottle in a paceline, and one near miss when I was riding (fortunately nobody braked in our group).