[BobCochran]

@Greenbelt 146738 wrote:

If I had to ride this tomorrow (without asking a local for tips), I’d take the Anacostia Trib Trails to Lake Artemesia, the College Park trolley trail to Rhode Island Ave, Sunnyside to Edmonston to Odell to Cedarbrook, Montpelier, Brock Bridge, to Whiskey Bottom (this might get hairy with traffic crossing Route 1) to Gorman.

I agree this is a pretty good way. I’ve been as far as Gorman, starting with Odell Road. I can’t say I like Brock Bridge Road where it terminates at MD 197. And doing any stretch of Route 1 in that area is hairy indeed.

Bob

[BobCochran]

I would donate for such a cause too. A really nice story. I’m sure that members of our own area police forces perform many similar acts of kindness. They are pretty good people who constantly risk their lives.

Bob

[BobCochran]

@Harry Meatmotor 146682 wrote:

Seriously, Bob, this stuff tastes truly awful (and I’ve tried every flavor). Try some (12-20oz) protein fortified chocolate milk (available at most 7-Elevens) to get a good 3-4:1 carb to protein mix. Or, just mix a scoop of maltodextrin with 16oz chocolate milk and a tablespoon of cane sugar and a pinch of salt. It’s important you get any recovery drink into your belly within 60 minutes of the end of a ride; within 30 minutes is preferable. Then, another snack sized serving of complex carbs and protein in solid food within another 1-1.5 hours. E.g., a 1/4 cup of salted, boiled red skinned potatoes and an egg or 2. Maybe add an 8oz banana-and-milk smoothie or some cherry juice and seltzer water in for some additional micronutrients. Then back to your normal feed schedule.

Thank you! I had not thought about that!

Bob

[BobCochran]

@DrP 146678 wrote:

As someone who enjoys food and cooking, I have never understood the drinks and gels and other “sports” stuff people seem to like to consume. I mean really, what is the point. Enjoy what you consume.

I enjoy cooking too and I’d love to bring some turkey sandwiches with me on long rides. The problem is, meats spoil fast when kept inside hot pannier or other bags. So there is a lot of incentive to purchase foods from convenience stores or fast food places. On bike, you want to carry basically nonperishable foods which won’t melt in the heat or freeze into bricks in the winter.

Here is my disclaimer. I’m just a baby bicyclist. I don’t know how the big boys and girls carry food around. I’m going to try one recipe published in the book “Fuel Your Ride” by Molly Hurford. Something to do with peanut butter-oatmeal-honey balls. Those seem messy, too.

[BobCochran]

I went to REI last night and got a 1 serving packet of Recoverite (a Hammer product). If you compare organic raisins to Recoverite, the raisins are definite winners based on price, fiber content, and carbohydrate content. 1/4 cup of raisins offers 31g of carbohydrate vs 33g for a serving of Recoverite (the packet I have contains 49g of product.) Raisins are $3.99 a pound at Mom’s Organic Market. You need ten (10) 1.75 ounce packets of Recoverite to get at least one pound of product and at $2.00 each that’s $20.00 a pound…roughly put, of course, that is not an exactly correct computation but it is close. Raisins can leave your fingers sticky, but that is okay with me.

I will experiment with my True Nutrition maltodextrin when it arrives. The $7.99 shipping charge cost me more than the actual maltodextrin. I suppose I should have also asked, “what other True Nutrition products are worth buying for those century rides?”

Thanks everyone!

Bob

[BobCochran]

Thanks everyone, I really like reading the different viewpoints here. Everyone is different and has different bodies that need in-ride nutrition in different ways. I’m very much still experimenting with what works for me. The one thing I know for sure is that I must eat during my long rides. I’ve never tried straight maltodextrin before. I think I tried some sort of a Hammer product, and also something called Cytomax, but both these were a long time ago and I was put off by the steep pricing. I’m just buying a type of food, not a new house (smile.)

I did order a pound of the True Nutrition variety of maltodextrin. I will experiment and see if it helps me. Reese’s cups and Paydays and Fritos might help me too.

Thanks!

Bob

[BobCochran]

Thanks so much everyone! I’ll be giving True Nutrition and Hammer each a try. I really like the prices for True Nutrition.

Bob

[BobCochran]

@Tania 146570 wrote:

I buy all my protein powder etc from true nutrition.

https://truenutrition.com/p-5086-maltodextrin-1lb.aspx

Thank you! In reading their product options, I wonder if there is any point to adding the “Electrolytes Boost” to the powder? Are the Mylar bags they come in hard to use? I really like it that they show an image of the nutrition facts label and list the source of the maltodextrin.

Bob

[BobCochran]

@Rod Smith 146449 wrote:

I don’t see anything to click on either. iMac, safari browser.

I tend to use Google Chrome for most (but not all) of my browsing. Chrome version 53.x does show the Vimeo movie properly and you can play it. Firefox 49.x at least displays the movie embedded in the post, but it probably needs the very latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the system in order to play the movie. (Chrome has Flash embedded in it.)

So my suspicion is simply that Safari, even in the latest and greatest version, simply does not support embedded video streams. I too am a happy Mac user, and my Safari is at Version 10.0 (11602.1.50.0.10).

Solution: use Chrome or Firefox. Then you’ll see the movie.

Bob

[BobCochran]

@dasgeh 146438 wrote:

Not sure which “one” you mean. There are lots of cargo bikes. Most are the same width as a normal bike, but longer. On some, it can be difficult to find a place to lock the frame to a rack, but the rear triangle usually works just fine. I usually just use a frame lock on the box bike (the one that looks like it’s part wheel barrow), which means I can park most anywhere.

Thank you! I must have been thinking of the Yuba Cargo Bike. The movie posted in this thread is showing different brands of cargo bicycles — there are a lot of them as you say — but my mind zeroed in on the Yuba simply because I saw one at The Daily Rider. I think they had two Yuba models in the showroom that day.

Bob

[BobCochran]

I’ve seen one at the showroom of The Daily Rider. It seems pretty big in size. If I were to buy one, I’m not sure where I’d park it at my employer’s location. General Services Administration owns the complex and as far as I can tell, they are not interested in providing bicycle storage facilities to Agency employees. For this sort of bicycle, I may be forced to park in a garage parking space, and even put a proper Agency parking permit tag on the bike.

I also have a gripe with Vimeo-hosted movies. They are not closed captioned so I miss the dialogue in this movie entirely.

Bob

[BobCochran]

@hozn 146353 wrote:

Actually installing racks and fenders is usually a pain in the butt, since even on the “easy” ones, it almost always requires bending and/or trimming stays and other “hacks” to get them right distance from the tire, rattle-free, etc.

Well said. Precisely.

[BobCochran]

From cranksets to bottle cages to frames in the classified section to farting moths, I’m sure learning from this thread! As a bicycling innocent, please accept my deepest thanks! I’m eagerly following the discussion.

Bob

[BobCochran]

Cost to retailer of actual bottle cage: USD $1.00
Estimated unitized cost of advertising of bottle cage: USD $0.25
Estimated unitized cost of storing bottle cage inventory: USD $0.75
Estimated net profit, per bottle cage sold: USD $58.00

And who looks closely at bottle cages, anyhow?

Bob

[BobCochran]

@Steve O 146147 wrote:

Your new chain is too long.

Steve makes a lot of sense. JanaeBixby says this has only happened in the last few weeks — since having a tune up done and the chain replaced as part of that.

Bob

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