Sea Otter 2015: Fancy a riding snack? How about a pizza gel?

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Sometimes you can just have too much sweet gels and snacks on a ride – especially on long rides or 24 hour races, the need for a savoury snack can become an obsession. But what can you have? Pies and meaty products quite often have a lot of fat to digest and everyone is familiar with ‘Scotch egg burps’ on a climb.

It’s been one of our favourite long-ride conversations ‘What savoury flavours would you find appealing about now?’ – and we’ve been through many suggestions: from kebab and chili, through halloumi to prawn korma flavours. It seems that we’re not the only ones though, and Clif has been having the same thoughts, launching three new ride snack flavours at the Sea Otter.

There’s Sweet Potato and Sea Salt, Banana Beet and Ginger, plus Pizza Margherita. The resealable packs have around 160-200 calories in them, dispensing an easy to swallow baby food-like consistency (or astronaut meal if you prefer the thought to baby food). The flavours are tasty but not overpowering and we reckon that they’ll be appealing after six hours of riding. As they’ve just launched, we’ve got no UK prices or availability, but hopefully you’ll see them soon.

Pizza! Why wouldn’t you?

 

This one’s a little sweeter, but not as much as a gel

 

Subtle salt in this will make it appealing

So, what are the best savoury flavours that you’ve come up with?

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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