It is a pet peeve of mine that cyclist litter the roads with their Gu and energy bar wrappers. I ride mostly in the mountains and the only ones using those products up there are cyclists. How arrogant to toss your 100 calorie waste of money in a National Forest. While watching the TDF today a few riders crested a climb and were handed food. An Astana rider battling with Volker for KOM points was handed a gel pac and while on camera he squeezed it down. These guys don't use the 100 calorie pacs but use the larger 600 calorie ones so it took him a couple of moments. When finished , still on camera, he folded it up and put it in his jersey pocket. I was surprised and pleasantly so. Right on. If a guy fighting for a coveted jersey in the TDF can care enough about our planet to not litter then I think we a cyclist should be able to do so as well. Come on people, lets be responsible. FYI, I carry a gel flask filled with honey. Ounce for ounce the same caloric content, pure glucose that goes straight into the blood stream by-passing the liver, and 0 litter.
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I'm with you on that, 100 per cent. I don't even toss banana peels because (a) somebody who might get angry might be watching, and (b) if everyone did it, it would be one helluva smelly, fly-infested mess.
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I think this is not only good for nature, good for everyone.
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oldbobcat said:
I'm with you on that, 100 per cent. I don't even toss banana peels because (a) somebody who might get angry might be watching, and (b) if everyone did it, it would be one helluva smelly, fly-infested mess.
+1.
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Banana peels, apple cores and the like, I toss without a second thought. They'll decompose pretty quickly. If every cyclist tossed those items on every ride, it would...have little to no effect. As for packaged goods, yeah, those go back in the jersey until a stop where there's a trash can.
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bingo296 said:
It is a pet peeve of mine that cyclist litter the roads with their Gu and energy bar wrappers. I ride mostly in the mountains and the only ones using those products up there are cyclists. How arrogant to toss your 100 calorie waste of money in a National Forest. While watching the TDF today a few riders crested a climb and were handed food. An Astana rider battling with Volker for KOM points was handed a gel pac and while on camera he squeezed it down. These guys don't use the 100 calorie pacs but use the larger 600 calorie ones so it took him a couple of moments. When finished , still on camera, he folded it up and put it in his jersey pocket. I was surprised and pleasantly so. Right on. If a guy fighting for a coveted jersey in the TDF can care enough about our planet to not litter then I think we a cyclist should be able to do so as well. Come on people, lets be responsible. FYI, I carry a gel flask filled with honey. Ounce for ounce the same caloric content, pure glucose that goes straight into the blood stream by-passing the liver, and 0 litter.
The riders that do it are just displaying their laziness and their lack of respect for anyone else.
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