comfort breaks while on long rides?

[PK99]

Spare a thought for us women. Very hard to squat discretely, hedge or no hedge. It also takes ages to drop one's attire and then make yourself decent again.

You need a shee-wee

 

[theclaud]

You need a shee-wee

That's a TMN to TMN!

 

[slowmotion]

This is the law of nature, when it has to be done, it has to be done. That's what trees are for.

It isn't just the French who do it in plain sight.....the Belgians are at it too....
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[Matthew_T]

all my long rides are usually through the countryside. It would be very difficult to get anything over 30/40 miles through towns. Bushes or fields are a godsend.

 

[DCLane]

One of these usually comes in helpful:

 

[compo]

Trees and bushes are fine for passing urine (for us fellas) bit as a sufferer from IBS it is the other end that can become a real problem.

 

[Herr-B]

Spare a thought for us women. Very hard to squat discretely, hedge or no hedge. It also takes ages to drop one's attire and then make yourself decent again.

You can't fool me, I've seen The Full Monty, I know what you girls can achieve.

 

[RedFeend]

You can't fool me, I've seen The Full Monty, I know what you girls can achieve.

What we do is called contortion!

 

[Arjimlad]

Oxford park & ride car park hedge. Sorry but I had no choice in the matter.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have to confess that anything under the 35 mile mark rarely need me to stop for a comfort break. My OH on the otherhand will stop 3 or 4 times in that space of time and finds trees rather useful. We did toy with re-naming our journal to "scent marking our way around the world" because of the number of comfort breaks he requires.

I do remember one rather embarrassing moment on tour though when I did need a comfort break and in the absense of all trees/walls/hedgerows had to use some low lying bushes for cover. the sort of bushes that are up to your knees nothing more. Believing it to be clear, I did the pull shorts down & squat in 1 movement . This was followed by the squealing of car tyres and a lot of dirt being thrown up into the air. A car ran off the road - they did recover, so no harm done, but the really embarrassing part is the country we were in at the time - Sweden. Of all the countries we passed through (possible the wrong phrase) Sweden is the last country I would have thought this would have happened in. My OH makes sure he mentions it at regular intervals.

 

[RedFeend]

I have to confess that anything under the 35 mile mark rarely need me to stop for a comfort break. My OH on the otherhand will stop 3 or 4 times in that space of time and finds trees rather useful. We did toy with re-naming our journal to "scent marking our way around the world" because of the number of comfort breaks he requires.

I do remember one rather embarrassing moment on tour though when I did need a comfort break and in the absense of all trees/walls/hedgerows had to use some low lying bushes for cover. the sort of bushes that are up to your knees nothing more. Believing it to be clear, I did the pull shorts down & squat in 1 movement . This was followed by the squealing of car tyres and a lot of dirt being thrown up into the air. A car ran off the road - they did recover, so no harm done, but the really embarrassing part is the country we were in at the time - Sweden. Of all the countries we passed through (possible the wrong phrase) Sweden is the last country I would have thought this would have happened in. My OH makes sure he mentions it at regular intervals.

You must have a beautiful bum!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You must have a beautiful bum!

The daft thing is, my OH confirms there was nothing to see, it was all in their imagination (and probably best left that way as well)!

 

[coffeejo]

On holiday in Shropshire last year, we were walking over the Stiperstones and there was no way I was going to make it down to the village so told everyone I'd catch them up. The hill was deserted but, as you'd expect, just as I got comfortable, someone came along the path in the one direction where I had no cover. Pelvic floor exercises - absolutely worth it

 

[User16625]

When I was younger I could easily ride 4 hours or so without the need for a comfort break, these days however depending on the weather I often find myself searching for a discrete hedge or similar.

This didn't seem to bother the olympic road race boys
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsdAiLCoKc


However I was wondering what's the story on longer sportives? I've done a few and nearly always managed to either find a suitable public loo, or at worst hopped behind a hedge, but that latter is probably against the law, and as I'm fortunate enough to have a place in the fortchoming Ride London 100 I was thinking it may be rather crowded and there won't be that many hedges/trees etc. I suppose I could wait until Box Hill and have a high level pee.

If a horse can drop a load on the road legally then why cant humans answer the call of nature in a bush? Basic human needs aswell as rights.

I got caught short on the way up to the summit of snowdon once. I went behind a rock to relieve myself and just as I was finishing, the mountain train completely full of people suddenly appeared from around a bend. It felt comical aswell as embarrassing tbh. Never had much trouble when cycling.