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What goes on inside someones head when they can drop their gel sachet after sucking the life out of it.Are people oblivious to the mess around them? So called educated people - in this instance this goes out to number 1037 doing the Campus to Campus today on your lovely Colnago, pitty you do not show the same pride in your environment. Stick it back in your pocket and wash your jersey when you get home, simple. Can not believe that people still need to be told. smileys/smiley7.gif" align="middle" /> Buffwhack2007-09-30 05:23:27

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Yupp, that's something I dont understand either. Suck it and chuck it and make it someone else's problem... Angry

 

When I see someone doing it, I sit and think if I feel like having a (polite) chat with the person (will it end up in a shouting/swearing match), or do I try and memorise his number. In the end, I think I am just as bad as that person as I do nothing about it.

 

Saw several people doing it in the Karoo to Coast.

 

Has PPA or any race organiser ever done anything about it?
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What goes on inside someones head when they can drop their gel sachet after sucking the life out of it.Are people oblivious to the mess around them? So called educated people - in this instance this goes out to number 1037 doing the Campus to Campus today on your lovely Colnago' date=' pitty you do not show the same pride in your environment. Stick it back in your pocket and wash your jersey when you get home, simple. Can not believe that people still need to be told. [img']smileys/smiley7.gif" align="middle" />

 

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Can't agree more....either put it in your pocket, carry a clear plastic bag for it or roll it up and shove it under your bib shorts leg gripper.

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Or if you have to chuck it just wait until you get to a water point and rather drop it there.At least there is people cleaning up afterwards.I don't like keeping a sticky thing in my back pocket either,but I can always pace myself to get to a waterpoint and use a gel there.

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Hear hear!

For some or other reason "Athletes on official business" (otherwise known as Joe Average on his expensive bike) think they have a legitimate reason to litter.

 

I've had the privilege of riding mountain bike races in some of the most unspoilt areas of South Africa...until the racers came through that is. The plastic litter they strew from start to finish is astonishing. Same goes for tubes. Racers can't seem to fix tubes, therefore they just dump them next to the road.

 

In one of the races I did - perhaps the Epic, there was a woman with a plackard that protested about the race for this very reason. She shouted and ranted and raved and predicted that the route from Knysna to George though the forest will be a mess after we finished. She was right.

 

One of the posters here mentioned WWF approved energy bytes with bidegradable wrappers. I fear that bananas and raisens are relics of yesteryear. Today's carbon fibre generation wants energy gels, preferably with plastic screw-tops and brightly-coloured indestructable mylar sachets to leave behind in the forest or veld.

 

Just stop it.

JB

 
Johan Bornman2007-10-01 01:32:36
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i saw that at sugarbush yesterday, there were gel packets lying in the grass, that's sad, ok i throw my banana peels, but not plastic, that will stay there for good, or kill an animal who will eat it cause it's sweet.

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Yip I dont get it, I suck a gel dry or finish an energy bar and put the wrapper back in my pocket, they never leave a mess in my jersey as they are empty.

I must say I thought that the epic was one of the cleanest rides I have done, I dont think I saw very much litter at all. Perhaps due to the more environmentaly conscious foreign riders. 

 

I dont think that littering will ever be enforced, like all such things it comes down to education and consideration.
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i saw that at sugarbush yesterday' date=' there were gel packets lying in the grass, that's sad, ok i throw my banana peels, but not plastic, that will stay there for good, or kill an animal who will eat it cause it's sweet.[/quote']

 

There we go. I think it is an absolute privilege for us to ride through that reserve. It is the only reserve of note in Gauteng, the others have one or two mangey lions chained to poles - and it allows cyclists in there. It won't take them long to associate gel packerts with cyclists and boom goes our best ride in the province.

 

Please stop and pick up those sachets even though it burns your arse. I is quite easy to ID the culprits - you usually pass them on the first hill or find them passed out by their cars are the finish. Deal with them there.

 

JB
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I must say I thought that the epic was one of the cleanest rides I have done' date=' I dont think I saw very much litter at all. Perhaps due to the more environmentaly conscious foreign riders. 

 
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You were clearly a front-runner in the Epic. You should see it from a straggler's point of view. I also worked on the Epic one year in order to get a place the following year and let me tell you, the number of tubes, gel packets and other discarded rubbish we saw outside the feeding zone was scandalous.

 

JB
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i saw that at sugarbush yesterday' date=' there were gel packets lying in the grass, that's sad, ok i throw my banana peels, but not plastic, that will stay there for good, or kill an animal who will eat it cause it's sweet.[/quote']

 

Not to mention the broken glass remains that some mamapara discarded from their car onto the tar road for wild game to cut their hooves on and cyclist to cut their tyres.
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i saw that at sugarbush yesterday' date=' there were gel packets lying in the grass, that's sad, ok i throw my banana peels, but not plastic, that will stay there for good, or kill an animal who will eat it cause it's sweet.[/quote']

 

Not to mention the broken glass remains that  mamapara discarded from their car onto the tar road for wild game to cut their hooves on and cyclist to cut their tyres.

 

Not nice mampara...and you call yourself a cyclist.LOL

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