Drafting motos, piss-gate, and other insights from the Giro d’Italia.
You think we’ve all been pissing in bottles during the Giro, don’t you? Man, this story. I don’t really understand why the jury decided to tell the whole peloton not to piss into bidons when it could have been addressed to one specific person. I don’t want to blame anyone but it’s pretty obvious that they could have just named the one rider doing it. Honestly, I promise you: this is not what we’re all doing!
But I also must say that I don’t really get why it’s such a big topic. As long as you don’t throw a bidon containing your pee into a crowd of people, I don’t find it that bad. I mean, the piss needs to get out one way or another right? I don’t see pissing in a bidon as any more offensive than pissing while still riding the bike. We could stop – and we do stop at times – but pissing directly from the saddle saves energy and time. As racing has gotten faster, we stop less often.
Anyway, enough of piss-gate, a story that should never really have been a story.
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