When do racers [censored]?

If things are slow, they'll take a leak at the side of the road and catch up using the team cars as a draft.

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If things are fairly quick, it's not unusual to have a team mate push them while they [censored] on the move.

The riders on the left are doing it without assistance...

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... aint cycling fcuking glamorous!!!

When the hammer is down... then it's all down to how much you need to finish in front of or with the bunch. After 6 hours hard in a one day race it would a surpise to have a rider over hydratred - I'm not sure that being brasting for a p1ss would be too much of an issue.

When Lemond won the Tour in 86 he rode a stage with stomach woes and the ol' [censored] chute let loose. That wasn't chocolate/carmel topping running down the back of his shorts...

The pros take nature breaks, which is to say the stop and [censored] real quick by the roadside. If it's one to the top guys in the race, the peloton will ease up a bit to allow the rider to rejoin the peloton. Also teams will dispatch a rider to the pissee to pull the pissee back to the peloton.

Another way to [censored] in a race is to pee while on the bike and moving. All you do is drop a part of your bibs so you can grab and point the hose. If in a group, the pissee definitely needs to move to the side of the road and to the back so that he doesn't spray the other riders a bit.

On a group ride, once, here in Tucson, a guy from the Jelly Belly cycling team did the ride with us. I was lucky enough to watch him [censored] from the bike. He must have really wanted to pee, because his urinal jet went a pretty far distance. It was a very instructive lesson.

alienator said:

Another way to [censored] in a race is to pee while on the bike and moving. All you do is drop a part of your bibs so you can grab and point the hose. If in a group, the pissee definitely needs to move to the side of the road and to the back so that he doesn't spray the other riders a bit.

On a group ride, once, here in Tucson, a guy from the Jelly Belly cycling team did the ride with us. I was lucky enough to watch him [censored] from the bike. He must have really wanted to pee, because his urinal jet went a pretty far distance. It was a very instructive lesson.

My bibs go up way past my belly button - not sure if y'all are hung like a donkey but I believe the prefered route is out through the leg...

I wouldn't put too much faith in what that feeder team does - and yes, I used to work for Jelly Belly. During the years I worked there it was depressing the complete lack of results we got. It was the only place that I worked that I didn't like being associated with cycling...

swampy1970 said:

My bibs go up way past my belly button - not sure if y'all are hung like a donkey but I believe the prefered route is out through the leg...

I wouldn't put too much faith in what that feeder team does - and yes, I used to work for Jelly Belly. During the years I worked there it was depressing the complete lack of results we got. It was the only place that I worked that I didn't like being associated with cycling...

I wasn't putting anything into Jelly Belly. I just said that I watched one of their riders take a [censored] while his bike was moving.

John Harlin said:

I've been watching euro cycling races on TV many of which take 6 hours or more to complete like the one I watched recently in Spain. I watched how intense they ride to stay up to their packs. At the same time, I saw them constantly drinking. I don't think they can hold it for 6 hours. With so much drinking, I don't think they can hold it for more than two hours at a time. That means some or all of them would need 3 pit stops. So when and where do they [censored]? Do they do it while riding? Are there pit stops with porta pottys? Doesn't seem like they would want to lose the time to [censored]. By the time they get off their bikes, run to a porta potty, [censored] and get back on their bike, they would easily lose 30 seconds or more from their riding packs. Women probably even longer. Multiply that by 3 pit stops on the average and that would not be too good. Seems like they would just [censored] into a bottle or something while riding. Kind of embarrassing and dehumanizing but at least you wouldn't blame a [censored] on the loss of a race or blame a team member for losing because he/she had to [censored]. Please don't tell me they all wear diapers and [censored] in their pants. Yuk.

They will [censored] their pants if they have too. Especially it is raining

I know a couple of guys that just have to tip their helmets to the side to relieve themselves.😄

There's another thread on this somewhere...

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RH, you sure killed that conversation. Not that it hadn't already run its course.

oldbobcat said:

RH, you sure killed that conversation. Not that it hadn't already run its course.

why is the [censored] IN FRONT of his pants?

If you're not sure you can make it back to the pack and have to [censored], obviously you can't stop for a pee break. So:
Step 1: Roll to the back of the pack
Step 2: Soil that chamois
Step 3: Wash bike after race

It's not that big of a deal considering we smell like a bucket of ammonia after a race anyway....

I've never known a pro to [censored] themselves, at least on purpose 😄

Really it isnt too hard to [censored] the bike, and if you have a teammate to push you along or you just start at the front of the group on a gradual descent, you dont really have to chase at all. Not glamorous, and not really ideal, but not that big of a deal. Sometimes when the break of the day goes, the field will take an announced [censored] break and everyone handles their business.

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