I did it for the first time!

[Sillyoldman]

Picking up a water bottle and drinking is great - getting the bottle back in the cage can be ... challenging/daunting !

Well done @Pat "5mph" !

So that's why the pro's throw them away

 

[Absinthe Minded]

Today I managed to drink on the go, picking up the water bottle while I was riding

Good for you. I have that down, but doing the same on the rollers? No way! So I sort of know how you feel and what an achievement it is for you. Well done

 

[Keith Oates]

Well done Pat, it's always a good feeling when you do something unusual for the first time.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dec66]

Well in, @Pat "5mph" I still fumble reaching for the bottle now and then...

...and, like others it seems, I can't go no-handed either. Doing the London Surrey 100 last year, just after Newlands Corner, I was ripping along on the flat at what I felt was a fair rate of knots, when I noticed I was being passed by somebody sat up in the saddle, hands off the bars in order to dig into a big bag of Haribo in front of them. Humbling in every sense.

And I still have trouble clipping into my pedals...

 

[Jaykun85]

i can now safely look behind me to see without swerving into the middle of on-coming traffic.

 

[PeteXXX]

I can drink whilst riding, but it's a challenge getting the cork out of the bottle first though!!

Oh, and I can nearly do a wheelie!!

 

[Turdus philomelos]

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Got the shoes and pedals, need to find the guts to try

- getting the bottle back in the cage can be ... challenging/daunting !

The cleats are far more easier than replacing the bottle to it's cage, it can be feel quite hazardous. Receiving a bottle from another rider now that's quite a different story.

On a very quite road quite near summer home, in rural Aberlady, I foolishly decided to receive a drinks bottle from John at a heady speed of say roughly 5mph . Having watched such heroics on the previous day of racing in the TfF I thought, stupidly, whats so hard?

Wrong move. I ended up on the ground with my head in a hedgerow.
At the time my thumb was gouping and I thought I must of just staved it. After 8 weeks it set in the most peculiar angle and even now neatly 9 months later it still has limit use. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

 

[summerdays]

I'd love to be able to go no handed... I can do about 5 seconds with lots of concentration.... But I can't progress any further. I'd love to be able to put on a glove or just give my hands a rest. I do get envious when I watch someone doing it effortlessly downhill (I can't imagine I could do that without having my hands near the brakes).

 

[fimm]

Having done triathlons for several years, I have finally learned how to speed mount and dismount my bike

(For the uninitiated, this involves starting with your shoes clipped onto your pedals, you run with the bike, jump on to it, get going with your feet on top of your shoes, then put your shoes on, and to finish you take your shoes off while still cycling and then swing your leg over the back of the bike and jump off. You have to have triathlon-specific shoes to do this - they have a single velcro strap.)

 

[mjr]

I'd love to be able to put on a glove or just give my hands a rest.

Ride one-handed. I put my gloves on by moving the unused hand to the one that's still touching the bars, taking care to counteract the force of the hand pushing into the glove. Easier on the steady roadsters than the twitchier road bike or folder. I spend too long riding lumpy roads to trust no-handed for more than a few moments.

 

[mjr]

I can drink whilst riding, but it's a challenge getting the cork out of the bottle first though!!

Put a tube through the cork... but I suspect you weren't talking about retro handlebar-mounted water bottles

 

[guitarpete247]

I used to be able to ride no handed, even a fully laden paper bike. But don't feel confident on road bike. That's what 40+ years experience does for you (or me at least).

 

[jefmcg]

I can drink whilst riding, but it's a challenge getting the cork out of the bottle first though!!

so you are not ready for le tour, then?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EanUbDJCE

 

[summerdays]

Ride one-handed. I put my gloves on by moving the unused hand to the one that's still touching the bars, taking care to counteract the force of the hand pushing into the glove. Easier on the steady roadsters than the twitchier road bike or folder. I spend too long riding lumpy roads to trust no-handed for more than a few moments.

Depends on the glove.... But it's more the freedom to do things easily or simply just stretch!

 

[Dayvo]

My son can still do no handed riding better than I.. What, I can't do it... he has my genes.... I blame it on my bikes being so tuned they respond to a micro twitch !!!

What, you mean like the sixpence/two bob twitch!