Welcome to Mountain Bike Monday, my mostly weekly feature offering my favorite mountain bike tips and tricks!
A good sports drink can help you ride better. They keep you hydrated, supplying a lot of the electrolytes you sweat out during a ride. For my money, Cytomax by Champion Nutrition is still the best. It has a decent taste, and a good charge of electrolytes.
That said, there is nothing worse than leaving some Cytomax (or any sports drink) in your water bottle and forgetting about it. Let’s put it this way: My wife recently posted on her Facebook status update that she figured out the origins of life: God went for a ride, and left his Cytomax bottles unwashed. He came back, and the Cyto had turned into a primordial soup that was soon sprouting intelligent life.
So this is what you have to do: The second you get back home, clean those bottles out. Otherwise, that stuff’s gonna sit in there and ferment. You’ll totally forget about it until your next ride. Then you’ll open it up and smell a cross between vinegar, stale beer and fruit punch. Nasty, eh? Then you’ll want to throw your bottle away.
So save your bottles. Save your appetite. Take a few moments to get those bottles washed out after you ride.
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