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Having read the title I was about to ask why anyone would do this given that a decent water bottle is a fiver. But then I read the OP and it turns out no one is actually doing this 🙄
TBH I wish some in amateur racing did do this as many seem hopeless at getting their bottle back into its cage while simultaneously looking where they are going and holding their line. Frequent cause of accidents.
I once discarded a bidet after a proper messy shart.
Does that help?
It's French. It's meant to make you sound superior to others. It's actually very pretentious.
Unless you're French speaking.
TBH I wish some in amateur racing did do this as many seem hopeless at getting their bottle back into its cage while simultaneously looking where they are going and holding their line. Frequent cause of accidents
Doesn't need to be racing. I almost got wiped out by someone JRA not long ago. He was looking down and swerved as he passed me.
Longer races I've seen feedzones and handups. Amateurs can still race 100miles.
I did once imagine a discarded bottle hitting a fictional child's face. Disgrace, we should ban something.
Longer races I've seen feedzones and handups. Amateurs can still race 100miles
hand ups and feed areas are common in gran fondo clubs
DezB - isn't that where you have a crepe? (can't do the French e thing but did read instructions on a different thread yesterday and thought I am never going to need that!!! How shite am I!)
Top trolling!
Hat, OP, hat!
I think it's "house"Hat, OP, hat!
Im just confused, why is it called a bidon?
House á toi aussi, pantalons-des-peurs.
I launch my camelback in to the bushes before epic climbs. Pfft amateurs throwing away cheap bottles.
Indoors on a turbo trainer would be quite a safe environment to launch an empty bidon into an imaginary crowd.
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In my defence, I thought it would be de rigeur on a cycling forum.
Technically a mountain bike forum, but few see the association with the mountain bike magazine it takes its name from 😛
MTB doesn't seem to have a French style to it so we're not all giving French names to parts, accessories and activities. More American maybe.
Bidons or bottles are less common outside of xc racing, and even there riders are unlikely to chuck them. Gels however, now that gets my blood boiling.
Ive got quite a stash of bottles, camelbaks and tools which amateurs leave behind. keep throwing I say.
My use of the word bidon is getting a bit of a hammering
I assumed it was a fancy word for colostomy bag, turned out to be a very disappointing thread.
MTB doesn't seem to have a French style to it so we're not all giving French names to parts, accessories and activities. More American maybe.
maybe we should start calling it velo tout terrain, or Le VTT?
I've always found the whole brtis using french words for stuff when a perfectly good English word exists a bit cringe worthy TBH. Same with professional cooks who insist on their staff acknowledging them with "Oui Chef!" and the obsession with the michelin guide.
I guess it's a cultural thing.
I wondering we'll see the same thing in a few years when MTB becomes the new golf.
Right now, there are hordes of neo-roadies desperately scrabbling to show that they're more pro than you. They grab at anything that screams "heritage". Rapha were geniuses at spotting this. These same neo-roadies are the ones saying bidon and chapeau to each other.
What will happen if/when MTB sees the same renaissance in popularity? Will we see neo-MTBers clad in BeenBag and quoting Zak Tempest?
😆
I've always found the whole brtis using french words for stuff when a perfectly good English word exists a bit cringe worthy TBH.
yep! my skin crawls every time they use peloton on the telly.
Kind of wishing I'd just used bottle now, I hadn't realised it carries such a stigma 😉
s’apparente à un mega troll,
yep! my skin crawls every time they use peloton on the telly.
Derailleur
repechage
musette
Domestique
Soigneur
Grupetto
Flamme rouge
Echelon
Have you got a case of the Brexit hives yet?
Yeah, my mates and I were discussing this in the cafe.Klunk - Member
I've always found the whole brtis using french words for stuff when a perfectly good English word exists a bit cringe worthy TBH.
yep! my skin crawls every time they use peloton on the telly.
What's the perfectly good single word in English that is used for a water bottle shaped to fit into a cage for fitment to a bicycle?
Bloody tour [i]OF[/i] Britain missed le opportunity
What's the perfectly good single word in English that is used for a water bottle shaped to fit into a cage for fitment to a bicycle?
Bottle
I can't tell if some of the words of foreign origin in this thread are placed there with a nod and a wink or just ignorance. 🙄
Doffs casquette to OP. 😉
From Wikipedia
First attested in English in the 14th century, the word bottle derives from Old French boteille, which comes from vulgar Latin butticula, itself from late Latin buttis meaning "cask", which is perhaps the latinisation of the Greek ??????? (bouttis), "vessel"
It's a waterbottle, I don't know why the OP didn't say water bottle, perhaps they're French.
I thought it was french, until I said it in France, in a bike shop, trying to buy a water battle.
The shopkeeper was mystified until I pointed at the space in the bottle cage of a bike on display and he suddenly understood what i was after, saying "Ah, Gourde!".
Decathlon France thinks it's a [url= https://www.decathlon.fr/Acheter/Bidon ]Bidon[/url]
plus ça change
Surely cycling has just adopted words into the lingo? Do those who scoff at French words similarly dislike the words huck / booter / Stoke* / rad etc which have come across the pond?
Isn't it just a mild form of xenophobia? How many of the people who take offence to 'bidon' also voted leave?
Sincerely, a pretentious wannabe multicultural remainer.
*my phone automatically capitalizes Stoke, equating the emotion with the place. Which tickles me every time.
Ps what is the English for echelon?
Ps what is the English for echelon?
With questions like that you're just a rank outsider.
Isn't it just a mild form of xenophobia? How many of the people who take offence to 'bidon' also voted leave?
Top work bring brexit into a thread bout waterbottles & littering.
The shopkeeper was mystified until I pointed at the space in the bottle cage of a bike on display and he suddenly understood what i was after, saying "Ah, Gourde!".
Gourde, according to Google Translate means idiot or imbecile.
Can someone page Edukator?
I reckon for the next week could all you roadies take a bottle out and motion to throw it every time you see another roadie 🙂
I said it in France, in a bike shop, trying to buy a water battle
Trafalgar?
Gourde, according to Google Translate means idiot or imbecile.Can someone page Edukator?
A hollowed out gourde can be used to carry water. E.g. if you're a Algerian French speaking Bedo[s]ui[/s]n or something.
Top work bring brexit into a thread bout waterbottles & littering.
Disappointed you missed my earlier bon mot 😐
Next you'll be saying mech instead of derailleur
I can't tell if some of the words of foreign origin in this thread are placed there with a nod and a wink or just ignorance
Like 'pretentious' for example ..and 'example' being another choice.. and 'choice' is another one of course. Come to think of it, so is 'course' but perhaps not in this context. 'Context' definitely is. Bollocks, it's hard not being poncy using English innit?
Palmares is another word that's popped up recently. I heard Ned Boulting use it several times on the tour coverage this year.
I said it in France, in a bike shop, trying to buy a water battle
Trafalgar?
Better off saying that in southern Spain.
Palmares isn't a recent one for goodness' sake. None of it's recent, it goes back to when hardly anyone was into international road cycling racing in the UK.
errrr... OK
I actually saw this happen on a Sportive on Sunday 😯
Bloke lobbed his[s] bidon[/s] water bottle towards some marshals yelling
"Can you take this for me?"
I nearly fell off laughing.
I wasn't keen to jetison my 1L SIS bottles in the Gran Fondo in Albi - bought especially to carry more liquid. But it looked pretty usual to discard and collect on the wheel, rather than stopping to refill. Sportives are more race and less ride though, and there are definite areas for dropping litter and bottles, where they are collected.
Frankly, you should leave nothing but tyre tracks. I never drop anything.