Sportives and associated treats::

michael196

Tour de burren has cheesecake as well as smoked salmon on brown bread associated with the sportive, ( as well as half snickers)

Ring of kerry has buttered brack,

W200 has sandwichs associated with it,

Sky etape has a commmerical jel and bars associated with it, (as well as trad music at the stops)

leinster loop has pasta soup and sandwichs,

Sean Kelly tour of waterford has the yummy oat breakfast flap jacks,

brack/ cake at the Slieve bloom,

three peaks was water if i remember correctly,

Bobby Power Carrick Sportive, the roses chocolates and sandwichs stood out,

Swords sportive had sports drinks,

knocklong has a pig on a spit

Pfizer Chernobyl childrens charity cycle Cork to Galway; had sandwichs / water and bananas

mt leinster ( dunno, have not done it,)

tour of Wexford ( dunno, either )

Blackstairs 200 ( dunno)

i cannot think of any others !!



can you add to this list ?

have to admit I was curious to sample the cheescake at the tour de burren, but didnt get to sample it, then missed the smoked salmon, coz the group i was tailing didnt stop at Doolin.

Lumen

michael196 wrote: »

knocklong has a pig on a spit

ROK ON

Etape Ras Mumhan - big bowl of unctuous beef stew with Plenty of beef spuds and veg. Lashings of cans of coca cola.
Kare Tour de Ffoothills. Chicken curry, chips and coleslaw.
Chain Gang Conor Pass Challenge - you could nearly eat you own weight in cream cakes.
Ring of Kerry - bars of chocolate on top of Coomakiste.

Inquitus

Maracycle had Jaffa Cakes!!!
Viking Ride had Angels with cake, and obligatory Blaas!

ROK ON

Wicklow 200 had
Queue in freezing rain for 20 minutes
Grumpy old bas*ard swiped registration bar code
Queue for horrible factory made sandwich.
A steal for €42.

Did I mention the sandwich - the privilege of 2 was afforded to you.
Best sportif (n)ever.:rolleyes:

Inquitus

ROK ON wrote: »

Wicklow 200 had
Queue in freezing rain for 20 minutes
Grumpy old bas*ard swiped registration bar code
Queue for horrible factory made sandwich.
A steal for €42.

Did I mention the sandwich - the privilege of 2 was afforded to you.
Best sportif (n)ever.:rolleyes:

The Sandwiches were Michelin Star quality compared to the manky pasta afterwards ;p

ROK ON

Lumen wrote: »

What is the Knocklong sportif with the Pig on Spit?
It should have been publicised here.

Chips Lovell

You people call yourself cyclists?

Cookie_Monster

el tonto wrote: »

You people call yourself cyclists?

exactly

W200: skip sandwiches, scoff down on cola bottles and straight to the pub afterwards to get hammered.

That's how it's done :pac:

andy69

Mt Leinster Challenge has an amazing spread of food...way too much to list here :-)

The Tour of South Meath has a lovely feed (in my local pub as it happens) there in Clonard - choice of curry or stew if I remember right. that was a welcome sight/smell after a 110km spin I can tell ye :-)
(plus a foodstop en-route as well of course)

Mick Byrne in Dalkey also had a super food stop in Laragh...was tough to leave that one actually

Raam

Hmmm.

maryishairy

michael196 wrote: »

Ring of kerry has buttered brack

Undoubtedly the winner. Better than rocket fuel! You'd cycle up Alpe d'Huez after a few slices of the aul buttered brack

langdang

maryishairy wrote: »

Undoubtedly the winner. Better than rocket fuel! You'd cycle up Alpe d'Huez after a few slices of the aul buttered brack

And a good shcoop a water out of a churn in the back of a battered Caddy van

Eamonnator

Lap the Lough has a pig on a spit.
"Around the Mountains" promoted by Lucan CC has a full irish breakfast before and chicken kiev afterwards for dinner. BEST

aquanaut

Tour de cure had coffee, coke, tea, fruitcake and hang sangwiches! Fruit as well I think

Esroh

Western Lakes Polka Dot has the all you can eat Postride BBQ.

The Croi Lap of the Lough has the Cong Feedstop. Tarts and Maderia Cake are special

Cornamona 50 also has the BBQ

Re the Flapjacks found Flahavans Flapjacks in local Super value today

Ml they take the left over cheese cake to Doolin so you missed that as well

HivemindXX

Wicklow 200 is most notable for the mountain of Rice Krispie Squares in my opinion.

West Cork 200 had a burger van at the halfway point, which struck me as a bit unusual. For anyone who didn't want to eat a heavy burger they also had big slices of fruit cake. Clearly they know how to eat down there!

Dubba

HivemindXX wrote: »

Wicklow 200 is most notable for the mountain of Rice Krispie Squares in my opinion.

West Cork 200 had a burger van at the halfway point, which struck me as a bit unusual. For anyone who didn't want to eat a heavy burger they also had big slices of fruit cake. Clearly they know how to eat down there!

They'd a fish burger option too, which was nice but took far far too long!

The Glenilen Yogurt near the end was very good as well.

cython

Twin Peaks (now Wicklow Peaks) had cakes from Avoca Handweavers at the end last year - awesome stuff!

michael196

el tonto wrote: »

You people call yourself cyclists?

sportives are our days off !!!

michael196

ROK ON wrote: »

What is the Knocklong sportif with the Pig on Spit?
It should have been publicised here.

apologies,

http://www.kilmallockcyclingclub.com/hubroutes.html


its kilmallock cycling club that starts in knocklong

see they describe the pig roasting end of second paragraph

daragh_

Rice Pudding Cones at Killiskey on the Mick Byrne. Followed by handmade sandwiches in Laragh.

Unbeatable IMHO.

ROK ON

michael196 wrote: »

apologies,

http://www.kilmallockcyclingclub.com/hubroutes.html


its kilmallock cycling club that starts in knocklong

see they describe the pig roasting end of second paragraph

Aaaagghhh - I should have gone to that. My grandmother was from Kilmallock and the old man grew up there. Some beautiful cycling around there.

Its in my diary for next year. They're going to need more than one pig.

cdaly_

Mid Summer Century had a mobile coffee shop in Dublin city centre and full breakfast at the end in Dundalk...

CramCycle

Dying Light 200 had Ambrosia, tea, coffee, sandwiches and nutri grain bars at the first stop, Mars/Snickers, tea/coffee, sandwiches and more snack bars at the second and then Hot Ports at the finish (I had two) and then off to the pub in Donnybrook that evening.

Any Audax 200 (Mick Byrne, Ardattin, Slieve Mann) event organised by Paul O'Donoughue has more food than anyone can ever eat, plus fresh scones and cake from his OH at the finish line, juice, ambrosia, coffee, sandwiches (with fancy cheese and ham, freshly made) and bars at every stop.

Planet X

^^^^
And Ruby Port in Rottenhats apartment.

(oh yeah, just reread your's)

CramCycle

Planet X wrote: »

^^^^
And Ruby Port in Rottenhats apartment.

(oh yeah, just reread your's)

He only gives us those so he can show of his collection of beautiful bikes, I dislike visiting his apartment in that it makes me feel a tremendous of jealousy

granda

Inquitus wrote: »

Maracycle had Jaffa Cakes!!!
Viking Ride had Angels with cake, and obligatory Blaas!

maracycle also had mini mars bars

Beached

The free Ice Cone at the end of the Tour de Burren last year, with the sun splitting the rocks!!!
Outstanding

therightstuff

Wicklow Peaks had cakes from Avoca, bread from Soul and a lovely chicken curry at the end. Hard to top that.

therightstuff

ROK ON wrote: »

Wicklow 200 had
Queue in freezing rain for 20 minutes
Grumpy old bas*ard swiped registration bar code
Queue for horrible factory made sandwich.
A steal for €42.

Did I mention the sandwich - the privilege of 2 was afforded to you.
Best sportif (n)ever.:rolleyes:

Unless I am mistaken the €42 does not even go to charity.

Naas CC runs three sportifs;
TDF in April
Wicklow Peaks (last Sunday)
Martin Earley TOK in August (fastest sportif in country- full Garda escort)
All proceeds to charity and GOOD FOOD provided