This isn’t a ‘sighting’ so much as a ‘re-telling’ but I think it best fits here as it’s brief.
One of my mates was telling me about a bike race he’d done a week or so ago, it was somewhere further up north and it was an off road race through a forest, about 200km long. We’ve both done a few of these events in the past, but this was a new event so he was telling me all about it.
He’s fairly quick, so did it in under ten hours, and he was telling me he had to stop four times, three piss stops and one puncture, then he went into more detail and told me the first stop was after 1:45.
The conversation went something like:
Him: First stop was at 1:45
Me: Puncture?
Him: Nah the first piss stop.
Me: Was that the first time you could pull over without it being mental? (It’s often very busy at the beginning of a race)
Him: It was as far as I could go without pissing myself!
Me: <Laughing>….Bit over hydrated then!
Him: I needed a piss in the start box.
Me: <Laughing>
Him: But I had to get as far as I could or half the field would have over taken me.
Me: Did well to last 1:45 then!!
Him: I was fucking gagging for a slash by then, had to stop or I would have pissed myself.
Me: <Laughing>
He’s got a fair bit of previous for drinking too much and needing a piss during a ride, lost count of the number of times we’ve had to stop for him to take a slash.
Later I had a look at the route on Strava and realised I could see the exact place he pulled over for a piss, you can even look at the satellite photo and see exactly where he’d picked to stop.
Having a quick skim of Strava generally shows that you can see this sort of thing fairly commonly, I could even see where my cycling clubs Sunday group ride stopped for a piss last weekend, they all went in the same place
