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NOS ... and sometimes water
Water usually. To all the hot chocolate/vodka/squash/energy drink users, how do you get the bladder and gubbins clean, specifically the bite valve and hose joints.
Oxtail or mushroom soup.
http://www.copellafruitjuices.co.uk/our-juices/juices
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Just add water and a pinch of salt
Ovaltine? Sounds to good to be true, how long does it stay hot/warm/drinkable for?
Sparkling water! I would love to have seen that, my brother (new to mountainbiking) put some of that carbonated rockstar energy drink in, fairly amusing i just left him to it.
I also tried lucozade still when i had nothing else, FAR too sweet it was like drinking treacle, not refreshing at all.
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Though, obviously you have to drink a bit out first them tip in your quarter bottle of Glens vodka.
50/50 tap water and fruit juice of choice (usually orange), pinch of LoSalt.
IMO you can't beat Bovril!
Council pop
Water, although sometimes if i forgot to wash it out last time I'll add a bit of squash to hid the taste. But water's all you really need. If you're going really hard core maybe some kind of carb/electrolyte mix, but most people don't really need/feel the benefit of them.
I tried a pretty hard and fast road ride this weekend with 2 bottle of lucozade sport, and as said above I could hardly drink it with out being sick - wish I'd added water to it.
Ask Graeme Obree what he drinks if you want an answer without marketing BS.
At the mo, I'm drinking 50/50 mixture of water & pure fruit juice.
On very long rides I'm going to start experimenting with the above but adding 40g of pure honey, 40g of maple syrup and a pinch of Morton's Lo Salt. How big a pinch, I'm not sure. I read somewhere of adding about 3-4g in 2-3 litres of liquid.
water, sometimes water with fresh lemon juice and rock salt or if its a really long ride coconut water is good.