swimmer04 wrote:
If you want something for a warm up, then just use the bladder and
keep a bottleat your car for qwhen you finish. I think OP was saying for warm-ups and point to point TTs so keeping a bottle in the car for when you finish may not work in the P2P TTs. However, I still agree and would think that a bladder would work... not only for the warm-ups, but after you finish a P2P TT. Unless you are looking for having multiple type drinks (i.e., pre-race electrolyte/cal drink and post-race recovery drink/nice Belgium lager). Not sure how beer works in the bladder, but if someone has tried, I'd be very curious to know how it worked out.
swimmer04 wrote:
If you aren't going to drink it during the race no sense in giving up the aerodynamics. If you must carry a bottle then firstoption would oprobably be between the aero bars and next would be behind the seat. There was an article written a couple months ago about this and most aero way to carry a bottle. Behind the seat makes it very hard to access if you actually do need to use it during a race plus you really open yourself up for drag. I switched mine to between aero bars in the beginning of the year and I can stay in the bars and still remove and drink the bottle.
Also +1 here. If you aren't going to drink during the race AND don't want to use the bladder, then I'd probably go BTA and/or behind the seat. BTA would be nice if you needed a sip just in case vs. BTS. Also, BTA setups are nice for longer races so you might want to consider just going that route in general for future uses.