How many Bananas should you eat over 80 Miles ?

[fossyant]

Don't worry about it. I must have at least 8 of them before and during the Cheshire Cat in 2010. All the feeds had them, and I'd had a few before the start. I also had a stack of other food as well.

 

[Crankarm]

A couple of nicely blackened bananas before I used to start long rides and dried fruit along the way. I don't do long rides any more, or any rides, and therefore my need for bananas has diminished to occasionally one at breakfast.

 

[Crankarm]

As good as bananas may be for energy, they have a couple of problems with them, eat too many at once and due to the high pottasium content it effects the old ticker, A girl at work I work with, ate a pound of them in one go and was then carted off to the hospital with a suspected heart attack.

The second problem does not effect you cycling as a rule, but bananas have tryptopan in them and this makes you sleepy. I only discovered this when I used to eat them on Night shift and would come over all tired. Now I avoid them on nights, but for a good nights sleep, a couple of bananas helps.

Anyway, what was the original question?...................

Were there any other contributory factors? Was she over weight by any chance or did she have a pre-existing condition?

Pasta also makes one sleepy but that is because it is pure carbs. Bananas are similar in that they are also rich in carbs but natural sugars which could also cause drowsiness?

 

[apollo179]

I adapted things so as my mini rucksack fits on the bike, advantage being, when I need to push the bike over rough ground etc, I can wear it on my back.

Youve invented the racksack.
Conventional thinking would say that your handlebars look quite high relative to your seat height. Obviously its about what suits the individual - im just remarking because as a complete novice trying to get his own bike setup the tendency is to treat these xpert guides as the gospel truth, but the reality on the ground is people doing quite different = me v confused.

 

[Hicky]

According to the leg-end that is Carl Pilkington....more than 6 bananas will kill you, Fact.

Oh and dogs cant look up, although I'm not convinced by that one.

 

[twobiker]

According to the leg-end that is Carl Pilkington....more than 6 bananas will kill you, Fact.

Oh and dogs cant look up, although I'm not convinced by that one.

Can't look up what ?

 

[mcshroom]

I prefer panniers or a rack bag to rucksacks, then again I prefer full mudguards on my bikes as well.

If you wern't suffering from indegestion then that's probably fine bananana wise, although you may want to mix in some nuts, apples etc. just for a bit of variety.

I find that I can ride on a good bowl of porridge before I set out for 50 miles +, but my favourite snacks on the road are milk and cake