Pee on the bike? Seriously?

Never done it in years of mountain biking, and have yet to do it in about 11 months now of road biking.

At this point I wouldn't do it in a race either.  I mean really, if i'm going to pee on myself I better be fighting for a win at an Ironman or something... just not worth it to me.

edit: There is a really good thread on here somewhere about going #2 on the bike

Yup.   Often times you cannot stop and pee because it's a race. It's not like a bike race where if one person needs to go, they ALL stop and take a nature break, so it'll be fair.   If you gotta go, then you gotta go.   

I personally have never peed on the bike, but I'm going to assume that for an IM course, you'll be drinking a LOT of liquids, water, and such, and that usually does not affect the smell of the pee.   People will use a bottle of water and just rinse themselves off. They are already wearing Tri shorts (dry fasts), so it makes no difference, and there's no diaper feeling to it. It'll be the same feeling as if you came out of the water from the swim to the bike.  Thin padding, drys quick.

It's a different story if you're wearing BIKE shorts where the chamois is a lot thicker. That'll give you a diaper feeling.

I was a bike catcher at Silverman Triathlon in 2010. I caught Macca's bike, and I held on to the saddle...it was a little wet and sticky...oops. Forgot, NO TOUCHING the saddle. Needless to say, the RD gave out gloves after a few people got in because he'd forgotten about the "peeing on the saddle".   I had no idea that it was Macca's bike until I found out later...talk about getting close and personal with a pro. :-D 

 I would not recommend practicing this on the trainer.

Oh yeah...gotta go #2? Time to drop your shorts and make a dump.

Nice! Between all of the comments on this thread and the link that Pete posted I am laughing too hard to eat my oatmeal this morning.

LOL when else would you practice

(totally kidding)

Is it just me or do you find it harder to pee in aero position ?

Think shorter cranks would help ?

rsmoylan - 2012-04-07 10:05 PM

 

You're right.  It does sound like a silly practice.  I don't think this will save any time at all.  

Coffee just came out my nose

I would say on the MUP so passers-by can critique your form.

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Yes, it's harder to pee in aero. I don't know why. It's easiest to pee while going slightly downhill, on the hoods; for me, it seems to fly out behind instead of going down the leg. BONUS: hits anyone trying to illegally draft.

Most long-course triathlons, it's against the rules to pull over and go anywhere but in a port-a-pot. Most long-course triathlons, I have noticed, don't exactly have port-a-pots at lots of points along the course, either. Solution: pee on the bike.

In the U.S., I found that Penguin wash gets rid of all kinds of sports funkage. Here, without regular access to it, a vinegar/mild soap blend works just as well.

No diaper effect. I'm wearing tri shorts with a thin pad that was wet from the swim, anyway.

And, for a must-read all-time classic BT thread:

Going to the bathroom on the bike

I was just thinking about your Five-Alarm Fartpocalypse yesterday, with respect to your dog being totally unimpressed, and I STILL can't stop laughing.

I do fart on the bike, too, but sometimes it actually gets trapped in wet shorts and it kinda has to move out ... I also had pee pockets happening during IM Melbourne bike and then they'd kinda go all at once.

Just a vaguely, almost-relevant note.

And there is reason number one to not draft in the race.  Why do you think they invented the rule?

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