Hey all.
I’m trying to dispell the rumour in my office that the riders wear some sort of catheter and pee bag so they don’t have to stop during regular road stages.
Anyone got a photo of the peleton draining en masse?
Thanks.
There’s a gentleman’s agreement between the press and the riders where the riders peeing is not shown on pics or TV. So it might be tough to get such a pic. No catheter though… that’s for after the stage… LOL…
They’ve been showing it on the live coverage in the morning, nothing is hidden yecch, sometimes live isn’t so good.
. . . I’ve seen one somewhere before. I think Graham Watson, but I don’t feel like searching years of coverage if I don’t have to!
Anyone?
T
"Anyone got a photo of the peleton draining en masse? "
pervert…
I remember a few years back when the a breakaway got stopped by a train. Race officials held the peleton at the tracks also, to make it fair. Since the entire peleton was stopping, there was a huge rush to the side of the rode and everyone was pissing. There was a great helecopter shot on OLN.
Last month’s Cycling News - English road racing rag - has a pic of Bernard Himhult (sorry about the spelling) peeing off the bike sporting a snazzy pair ray bans. To be fare, I think he is stopped on a bridge. But still on the bike.
Yeah. Just saw the same photo in procycling’s July 2005 issue.
Oops. Ur right. Cycling News.
Hey all.
I’m trying to dispell the rumour in my office that the riders wear some sort of catheter and pee bag so they don’t have to stop during regular road stages.
Anyone got a photo of the peleton draining en masse?
Thanks.
. . didn’t I just straight to the master?
Forgive me.
T
Another option from the graham Watson site.
http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/images/05dauphineSt1/$file/5.jpg
lol that one rocks
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Sweet. Another option to show the masses: the rolling relief!
Thanks…T
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i thought is was done on the fly.
I haven’t read any of the posts, I’m just kinda freaked out by the fact this thread has over 1000 views.
You guys are sick.
Always been curious how it actually “works.” I am more perplexed by how women handle it - and there isn’t any mention of it on the net!
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i thought is was done on the fly.
I watched an old Eddy M. film – they had a some great footage of the tour. Guys would be flying down the road and all of a sudden a guy would start a break away and then pull over on the side of the road – then about 50 other guys all pulled over and started relieving themselves too.
There was another great shot when they were going through a small town and a couple of guys come running out of thier store carrying about 4 wine bottles each and they pass them to the cyclists – then they show the cyclists cruising down the road passing the wine bottles back and forth.
Great coverage.
Hmmm. I’ve never had to do that in a race, thank God.
They either pee in their shorts or if they come to an agreement they all stop, and pull down their shorts by the side of the road at the same time.
http://webcorcycling.com/2005/Womens/Gila_report.htm
. Luckily for me, after I regained the group and distributed water to some of my teammates, the leaders of the peloton called a pee-break. Girls swung off to the roadside, flinging bikes down with abandon and peeling off sweaty shorts. Crouched on verges, in ditches, even driveways (!), probably about 40 women took advantage of the opportunity to answer nature’s call. This was the first pee-break I’d witnessed, and I’m disappointed to report I did not have the need to join in.