http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Snakebite en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:02:40 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127563 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:11:43 +0000 Uberuce 127563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On my first century(and then twenty more miles) I gotted teh bonkz to within an inch of my life. Out with Tom, Amir, Kaputnik, DaveC and Numpty. If they hadn't been there to shepherd me home I'd have been in serious trouble, so thanks again to them.</p> <p>Last time I went for a 200k I consumed: two packets of Ringos* six brownies, six flapjacks**, two peanut butter and jeely pieces***, one cheese and ham piece, two Nature Valley granola bars, one plate of fish'n'chips and a pint of the Melrose King's Arms own stout****.</p> <p>*Thus ingesting 48% of my RDA for sodium chloride, although I presume they make an exception for this kind of thing.<br /> **Each was only half the usual size, and since they were on 2-for-1 in the Co-op, I Carradiced them both.<br /> ***No offence to Mr Obree, but jam alone is heresy in a sandwich.<br /> ****I was after the weakest beer there, but fortunately it was the most interesting on tap anyway</p> <p>My mouth was a little ragged from all the hasty stuffing, but I like the poet and philosopher Dizee Rascal almost said, some people said I'm bonkers, but I just rode on free. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127553 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:23:57 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 127553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Snakebonk?</em>"</p> <p>Better than BonkBite.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127551 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:15:24 +0000 Cyclingmollie 127551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sometimes a snakebite might be just that:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/9242475418/" title="Adder by Cycling Mollie, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/9242475418_b366ec780e_n.jpg" alt="Adder" /></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127546 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:38:08 +0000 amir 127546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I once got the bonk just after eating. Obviously didn't work quickly enough. Ended up walking up a hill on a sportive - a bit embarrassing at the time. I learnt then to try to stay topped up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127543 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:21:37 +0000 allebong 127543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a mild bonk the other day on the way back from Linlithgow via Broxburn. Had taken my main packed lunch but forgot to take the seemingly insignificant snack bag with oat bars and chocolate biscuits. Figured I'd make it back fine without needing to stop at a shop. Bad decision. Limped back the last few miles, thankfully with a tailwind, and rectified the situation by consuming roughly half the food ever manufactured.</p> <p>I can tell you that severe bonk is <em>devastating</em>. The worst bit, aside from the shaking, tunnel vision, blurred and grainy vision, muscle weakness, and sense of absolute impending doom, is the nausea that makes it almost impossible to actually eat anything no matter how much you know you need it. Horrible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127535 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:58:50 +0000 Dunny 127535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What if one day, you have absolutely knackered yourself on a ride, you're nearly home but just can't get any further, so you bounce up onto the kerb to walk the rest of the way, and in doing so you get a puncture by nipping the tyre on the rim, causing two holes side by side...</p> <p>Snakebonk? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127534 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:48:38 +0000 amir 127534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh and ice cream isn't a very good bonk-preventer, especially if bought in Causewayhead, near Stirling, before facing a headwind back to Edberg. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127533 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:45:03 +0000 amir 127533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For medium distance rides, I use energy drinks made up from powder (e.g. SIS). This doesn't add significant weight as I would carry water anyway (important to hydrate). For longer distances, I add cereal bars, cake or whatever happens along the route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127531 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:36:57 +0000 Dunny 127531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I only like jelly babies out of those. Think I'll try a banana with a few jelly babies pushed in. Superfood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127529 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:27:05 +0000 kaputnik 127529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Soreen, jelly babies, Jamaica Ginger Bread, Fig Rolls. All good agents of bonk avoidance.</p> <p>My experience of energy "tablets" is that they don't take kindly to being in a slightly sweaty back pocket once the foil has been opened to get the first tablet out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127523 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:04:45 +0000 Arellcat 127523@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Bonked". Or "got the bonk". But never "got bonked" or "got the bonked".</em></p> <p>Ah, the old transitive/intransitive verb rule. I also suppose one ought to say "I tired" rather than "I got tired". "Got the bonked" feels like it should be written in Internet, such as "Moar rides! Get teh bonked!".</p> <p><em>A McMuffin, however, is not.</em></p> <p>Neither is stuffing your face with a full Scottish Breakfast and then doing 40 miles along the B840 and trying to sprint the long climb past Ardbrecknish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127515 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:40:30 +0000 alanr 127515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>glucose tablets are light to carry and have lots of energy. Energy drinks are good but heavy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127504 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:27:02 +0000 Dunny 127504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A McMuffin, however, is not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127502 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:20:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 127502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bananas are a good way to avoid bonking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127500 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:18:22 +0000 Dunny 127500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I understand. Of course I'm going to be using this new learned phrase at every opportunity when speaking to the missus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127495 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:01:40 +0000 kaputnik 127495@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Bonked". Or "got the bonk". But never "got bonked" or "got the bonked". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127488 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:47:30 +0000 Min 127488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's just "bonked". As in "Bonked after Linlithgow"</p> <p>I am an expert on bonking. I've bonked all over the country.</p> <p>(steady now) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127487 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:43:56 +0000 Dunny 127487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah. Got bonked just after Linlithgow on my first attempt to reach the Falkirk wheel along the canal a few weeks ago.</p> <p>Correct use? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127486 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:40:30 +0000 Min 127486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Your legs turn into jelly and you feel all wobbly and you have no food. It usually happens at the furthest away point of your ride and the way home will be into a headwind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127485 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:38:08 +0000 Baldcyclist 127485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When your body runs out of energy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127484 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:35:57 +0000 Dunny 127484@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What's bonking? Mother and I never had "the talk"... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127483 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:27:23 +0000 gibbo 127483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, right. I don't think I'd ever heard that expression. I must live a sheltered life. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127482 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:21:53 +0000 Baldcyclist 127482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Puncture?</p> <p>Ah, beaten, and with a 'proper' explanation... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127481 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:21:25 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 127481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Puncture, usually when the tyre is quite low, hit something solid and it nips the tyre on the rim, causing two holes side by side, lookign like a snakebite. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11305#post-127480 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:18:26 +0000 gibbo 127480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't mean the looney juice popular with students and goths...</p> <p>... there's a question in today's Radio Times Eggheads quiz where it asks, </p> <p>"'Bonk' and 'snakebite' are two hazards to avoid in which sport"</p> <p>I've heard of bonking (and done it), so I correctly guessed cycling.</p> <p>But what's "snakebite"? </p>