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I was so close on Saturday.... "must resist, must resist"
Have done it once in Moab during an adventure race !
Not while riding, but I have sometimes failed to resist the doublesausageandeggmcmuffinwithhashbrownandlargehwitecoffee temptation 🙂
no, never.
I usually pop in before llandegla, with a hangover, and nearly throw up half way around.
Sanctimonious regulars to the thread please! Form an orderly queue for the usual.
Not many McDs on the mountains I'm used to riding, which, I think, is a good thing.
Ever been tempted to stop off a McD's
Just once in the last 18 years after SW4 festival. What I'd already put in my body that had led me to this moment of idiocy was, most probably, worse for me.
I usually pop in before llandegla, with a hangover, and nearly throw up half way around.
good man.
Yep.. had a breaky there on the way to the trails many a time.
Don't bother trying the drive thru, H&S, they won't serve you 🙁
I'll pop in after long races if there's one nearby. I remember doing a race at Thetford many years ago and stopped at the local MaccyD afterwards. Pretty much every Elite XC MTBer in the country was in there. 😉
We stopped at one after doing SITS as a Pair - both of us absolutely wrecked and honestly, no food* has ever tasted so good!
* I realise that the word "food" is possibly not 100% accurate when describing McDonalds but after 24hrs of energy drink, gels, bars etc, having a fat blowout was much needed! 🙂
Wouldn't ever have one mid-ride though.
Erm.....I have a McD's brekkie quite regularly on the way to meet people for a ride.
Double Sausage & Egg McMuffin meal with a white coffee, please....
Mmmmmmm.
Not yet ridden anywhere that's taken me past a McD's mid-ride though, although when i was at uni we used to go on night rides along the grand union & stop halfway for a bag of chips......
Stopped at McD's quite few times while touring, although I prefer burger king.
occasionally I will stop at the golden arches after a ride and stuff myself full of carbs and a bit of protein. As my diet is 90% clean and I have a fast metabolism I can get away with it.
Hahaha, I mean whilst[u] riding.. not pre-post munchathon..
I hammered myself to near death on Saturday, coming off a steep chalky hill near where I live there is a McD's at the bottom near the roundabout, I normally ride past it, but after 3hours playing XCRaceBouy I was soooooooooo tempted.....
I do stop there for the breakfasts and coffee, can't see owt wrong with that..
Not during a ride but sometimes when driving home at night you can't beat a 99p double cheeseburger.
Regularly when touring in Europe. 1e a burger with locally-sourced ingredients, a comfortable seat in the dry and you can see the bikes through the window.
Quite regularly I'll stop off on the way to ride for a double sausage and egg and a poo.
Oh my god...i can't believe some of you people even eat that bla bla bla!!!!
Not on the way round but yes sometimes on the way to a ride or on the way back i may stop for a quick feed. They are getting smaller tho.
Aren't they the official olympic restaurant or something like that? So must be good for you if it's endorsed by all those professional athletes 🙂
Or your hands are getting bigger..
Common complaint as you get older..
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tis true bb, have to have 6 nuggets too just to fill my small belly!!! haha
I have, a fair few times. When you are slogging home after an epic all day that's taken hours longer than expected, you're cold and wet and on the verge of collapse through extreme hunger, riding past any kind of food is not really happening.
Down here in the Valleys there are plenty of them around too.
I often stop at BK at service stations on the way back from races, but that's through lack of choice. However after one 100km event I felt utterly terrible - really bad headache, nauseous, in a pretty poor state and we stopped at a BK and within seconds of eating my first french fry I felt absolutely fine again. And I had been (or thought I had been) nourishing myself well throughout the race.
I suspect some kind of salt deficiency or hydration problem, but I dunno. I'd had recovery drink and fluids and whatnot after the race of course.
Burger King is so much better.
No, but I have done a late night night ride with a mate where we stashed 2 tins of beer in the undergrowth on a hill early on in the ride, so we could call back there later to collect them and then go down to muzzy's kebab van so we can have beer and kebabs mid ride*
* Not strictly mid ride, after the kebab we only had about a 3 mile gentle meander back to the car, the other 30 something miles had been knocked out pre-kebab. Even those 3 miles with warm lager and chilli sauce flavoured burps were a bit of a challenge.
No. But as I'm never tempted in there anyway, it's hardly surprising.
Not that I do much riding these days
Coffee with an extra espresso in +4 sugars and an apple pie. All the fuel needed for the journey home.
I've got a Wimpy on the wayhome.
never been near one on a long ride.
KFC FTW after racing.
I've been served at the drive-thru whilst on my bike. It was at night and there was no issue whatsoever.
Sometimes after rides if desperate but I just have a kids meal to keep me going until proper food.
During pedal for scotland a few years back. No food/snacks left at the first food stop (Drumpellier park) and me, wife and no.1 daughter (10 at time) were starving so seemed a logical decision. Happy meals all round, yay! Must have been in Coatbridge I think, and had to cycle through the drive thru as inside was being refurbed or something.
Yes - had breakfast at the one in Conset on day 3 of the C2C ride last year.
Sausage & Egg Mcmuffin and black coffee.
Rode like a God all the way to Tynemouth (It was downhill and back wind).
I've got a Wimpy on the wayhome.
We all feel like that after a day in the saddle..
hahahrdy har har.
Stopped in one near Barnsley for a McShit with lies.
"Just going to the khazi, I'll order something in a mo."
i would in europe - because macdonalds on the continent seems to be a totally different affair ...
france and holland macdonalds are actually edible - you couldnt pay me to eat one in the uk they are soggy messes
id still rather some fresh food but you cant really beat a "mcpoo" when it comes to having been shitting in the woods for a week 😉
Yes - had breakfast at the one in Consett on day 3 of the C2C ride last year.Sausage & Egg Mcmuffin and black coffee.
Rode like a God all the way to Tynemouth (It was downhill and back wind).
It's always a tail wind. You should have stopped at fell haven though at the the top of Crawleyside bank though, you're a brave man stopping around here...
Hell Yes.
When out on a North Leeds ride, Its good to stop off at Mac Ds for a refuel.
It dosent matter if youre putting 25 miles in, in tight woodland singletrack, you can eat what you like.
Nope, never, the pub, plate of chips and a pint, now you're talking. 8)
Problem with pubs though is finding one, and finding a decent one. A crappy pub is worse than McDs, at least you get your questionable food fairly quickly in McDs and they at least have milkshakes.
True, however the OP question was "Whilst on a long ride??" and I wouldn't stop at McD's - I find more country pubs doing "decent" food as opposed to the muck they serve in McD's, even if it is a ham and cheese toastie.
Yeah I'd say a lot of "townie" pubs won't let you in with muddy shoes etc.
Down in the Downs a lot of pubs are only too welcoming to us lot of outdoorsy types, In part I think we make up a lot of thier trade. Often you can leave the bikes outside up against a tree and scoff away only to be disturbed by the "pub dog" Different story "in tarn like"..
I'm now going to consider a McD stop off on a late eve ride to me mates, see what they say. We have in the past stopped off on the last few hundred mtrs of one of our more used rides at the chippy, couldn't handle that...
Years ago I used to call in for a chocolate milkshake whilst doing some "urban" riding (dicking about on steps/concrete blocks etc). Can't think of a "proper" ride that has a McDs halfway round, doubt I'd be tempted either, a decent pasty shop tho now thats a different matter 🙂
not fond of pubstops either TBH you end up sat down too long and getting going again is hard work. post ride tho hell yes.
Track 5 - sadly the sample omits the sound of a freewheel followed by those fateful words "Welcome to Burger Shack, may I take your order?"... 8)
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often spesh after a day of biking, like people above are saying after several hours of energy drinks etc the fat content helps the stomach and when you get the shakes or bonk you just need food NOW and McD or the like are quick
BK yes, . . . . Macydee No!
I've boycotted them every since they refused to serve me at the drive through because " you're on a bicycle" I only wanted a flipping milkshake, that was 1993, not been back since
they still do it in 2011... I was only trying to keep my mud off their floor, sheesh
+1 for KFC. If it's good enough for Usain Bolt...
Anyway wasn't there a thread on here recently from someone who 'bonked' just after eating a Mc-murder burger, wrong type of carbs etc?
I have, a few times. But then I'll also stop at BK, Greggs, pubs, cafes or whatever. I really don't know where all teh haterz get off on McDs - at least it's not frozen/re-heated pub food and shite beer.
We thought we were being naughty after last years MM slipping into the service station Mcdonalds on the way home.
The carpark was full of bike shop vans, manufacturers vans,team vans, and cars with bikes in and on!
Inside were queues of weary soles, I suspect more people succumb to the temptation of Maccy d's than they admit!
I don't think I've got to one mid ride. Managed a kebab about 2 miles from home though!
Only once in my life. I was on acid at 6 in the morning after an all nighter in the hills. Tried to eat something but whatever it was was such a writhing mess on the plate it looked like jabba the hut on speed, that and the staff, I freaked out. Never again.
someone who 'bonked' just after eating a Mc-murder
Hora's busy trying to get parts he's broken fixed on warranty
I never get tempted to call at McDonalds any time, never mind while on a ride!
For breakfast pre-ride yep, wouldn't fancy a McD mid ride.
No. Never.
was on a 22mile long cycle path in florida and there was a Dunkin Donuts at the end 3 donuts and a coffee then back along the path yum yum
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occasionally I will stop at the golden arches after a ride and stuff myself full of carbs and a bit of protein. As my diet is 90% clean and I have a fast metabolism I can get away with it.
What is there to get away with? Do they now only serve people who have 90% clean diets and fast metabolisms?