professional-like throwing of water bottles in A4 races?!

padjo5

Apparently its a weight issue with the pros, but can anyone explain what the benefits are in throwing away perfectly good water bottles, onto the road, as the race approaches a sprint finish, in A4!??

bcmf

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/03/news/cavendish-turns-pedals-in-anger-after-dwars-crash_210215

To put off your fellow competitors

Magilla Gorilla

This happened last year in the Mullingar 2-day and most of us in the A4 peleton laughed our arses off in unison. :P

ednwireland

austerity obviously hasnt reached a4 yet

jimbo28

If your talking about the lad who was doing this today in batterstown, He was also at it in dunboyne last week , had an aul chuckle at that myself.

Arthurdaly

Saw that today in the Lucan GP A4 race with about 5kms to go. I nearly turned around to go back and nab it for myself!

killalanerr

Some body rolled up beside him and said if your goin to throw any more away ill have em,i did chuckle

spyderski

Of far bigger concern is the amount of A4's who can't take a drink without wobbling all over the Fcuckin road.
Why people need to look down to find the bottle, then look down again to put it back is beyond me. Mine is in the same place every time I grab it, don't know about everyone else!!!

Lumen

jimbo28 wrote: »

If your talking about the lad who was doing this today in batterstown, He was also at it in dunboyne last week , had an aul chuckle at that myself.

He needs a proper talking to. I would have done it myself if I'd seen who it was.

Shameful and ridiculous.

RobFowl

killalanerr wrote: »

Some body rolled up beside him and said if your goin to throw any more away ill have em,i did chuckle

Laughing and sprinting at the same time !!!

Lusk Doyle

Lumen wrote: »

jimbo28 wrote: »

If your talking about the lad who was doing this today in batterstown, He was also at it in dunboyne last week , had an aul chuckle at that myself.

He needs a proper talking to. I would have done it myself if I'd seen who it was.

Shameful and ridiculous.

The weight saving claim is a bullsh*t excuse in my book, even for pros. He needs to be disqualified for reckless endangerment. That would stop it.

Mycroft H

Now if you wanted to be a real boss, stop pick up the dropped bottle and return it to its original owner saying ' you dropped this...'

Cookie_Monster

+1 Lusk

and do him for littering too :pac:

drogdub

I wonder, back in the day did he Timetrial dressed like this:

moby2101

Usually see lads emptying their bottles before the last sprint not throwing'em away!

I spose the flip side of this is idiots who drop a bottle standing on the breaks middle of the peloton causing mayhem.

buffalo

I've seen a fair bit of this in the A4 bunch in the last few races I was in, and not just before sprints. Think they've just been watching the TdF too much.

Lazairus

Hey in dunboyne

there was a lad who was taking A4 race way seriously and trew away his bottle ,i went up to him, i could see the tension ,then he trew away his bottle ,i thought ,what an ass.

CH

RobFowl

Lazairus wrote: »

Hey in dunboyne

there was a lad who was taking A4 race way seriously and trew away his bottle ,i went up to him, i could see the tension ,then he trew away his bottle ,i thought ,what an ass.

CH

Suspect there are a few beers on board here

Lusk Doyle

RobFowl wrote: »

Lazairus wrote: »

Hey in dunboyne

there was a lad who was taking A4 race way seriously and trew away his bottle ,i went up to him, i could see the tension ,then he trew away his bottle ,i thought ,what an ass.

CH

Suspect there are a few beers on board here

Don't mock our lord!

on_the_nickel

Was up with the baby at 4am and I must say this thread did raise a smile.

I'm deffo doing it on the next Sunday club spin.

Arthurdaly

I must admit it added to the occassion and tension at the end, I felt I was part of a high profile road race.

Then I looked down and realised i'm about 10 kilos overweight and 12 years past my prime.

busyliving

spyderski wrote: »

Of far bigger concern is the amount of A4's who can't take a drink without wobbling all over the Fcuckin road.
Why people need to look down to find the bottle, then look down again to put it back is beyond me. Mine is in the same place every time I grab it, don't know about everyone else!!!

I'm relatively new to cycling and I do apologize for wobbling a little bit

padjo5

Arthurdaly wrote: »

I must admit it added to the occassion and tension at the end, I felt I was part of a high profile road race.

Then I looked down and realised i'm about 10 kilos overweight and 12 years past my prime.

Yesterdays example was a peach alright, particularly as the bottle seemed to come from someone that was on the inside of the bunch, with the bottle flyin out into the middle of the road! As if the thrower wanted as many people as possible to see this projectile...perhaps its an act of intimidation??

Great race put on by lucan bytheway!

Arthurdaly

Great race put on by lucan bytheway![/QUOTE]

Agreed, can't believe these races are only 10 quid entry. Excellent way to spend a saturday and cant wait for next week.

LCRC_BAX

Arthurdaly wrote: »

Great race put on by lucan bytheway!

Agreed, can't believe these races are only 10 quid entry. Excellent way to spend a saturday and cant wait for next week.[/QUOTE]

Yeah it's gone be ahem, €30 next year...

doozerie

padjo5 wrote: »

Yesterdays example was a peach alright, particularly as the bottle seemed to come from someone that was on the inside of the bunch, with the bottle flyin out into the middle of the road! As if the thrower wanted as many people as possible to see this projectile...perhaps its an act of intimidation??

Wonder if it was the same guy doing a nixxer in the Dwars door Vlaanderen a few days earlier?...

“200 kilometers on Belgium’s worst roads. All ok. 15km from finish, peloton’s riding easy and a d—khead throws a bottle in my front wheel. Crashed hard.”

on_the_nickel

on_the_nickel wrote: »

Was up with the baby at 4am and I must say this thread did raise a smile.

I'm deffo doing it on the next Sunday club spin.

Couldn't wait til Sunday, I've now started shedding bottles at the start of Strava segments.

jimbo28

Maybe i should have off loaded them in the des hanlon.............might have stayed with the break:), I suppose the only other item available for off loading is the computer.............arm warmers may be worth a few grams......excess helmet strap etc;)

dermur

I keep an empty bottle of ballygowan in my cage just so I can fling it away as I power up to 18kph. Gives me a tremendous feeling of wellbeing.

greenmat

Was on the sporting legends Tour last year out of Dunboyne, coming into Trim a Guy flings his bottle out from the group into a back garden of a house. I ask him, "What are u at". He says "I always wanted to do that, thats my house, I brought 3 bottles with me". Wish I lived on a main road.

kenmc

greenmat wrote: »

Was on the sporting legends Tour last year out of Dunboyne, coming into Trim a Guy flings his bottle out from the group into a back garden of a house. I ask him, "What are u at". He says "I always wanted to do that, thats my house, I brought 3 bottles with me". Wish I lived on a main road.

And you believed him. :rolleyes: