shelbyfv

During a ride with let's say at least 20 miles to go.

Iride01 

My first solo century after getting back on the bike back and starting to ride for my fitness about 2011. At about the 50 mile turn around went to a combination restaurant/convenience store and got three pieces of fried chicken and two slices of pizza. I regretted that very much for the next miserable 45 minutes of the remainder of my ride back. Probably just bloated with indigestion from the greasy chicken and pizza. Glad it wasn't for the entire 3 to 4 hours I think that return took me.

Now I just stick to getting most all my fuel from a bottle. Occasionally maybe a banana, cookie, power bar or gel.... but only one or two of those per 60 miles of ride.

What's the biggest meal you've eaten? Or are you waiting for others before sharing?

shelbyfv

Pizza Hut lunch buffet. We all had regrets....

Iride01 

I remember the days when I could sit down at Pizza Hut with friends and eat a large pizza all by myself and order a pitcher of Schlitz.

I was only 16 back then!


Hope I don't derail your thread with this.

indyfabz

Probably two pieces of chicken fried steak and a biscuit with sausage gravy around the midway point of a century between Ione, WA and Sandpoint, ID. I had never had chicken fried steak before. It was good and about $5 in 1999.

Another one was a giant omelette with a mountain of home fries and toast somewhere between Hamilton and Missoula, MT in 2014. At least the rest of the mileage was pretty much flat.

RH Clark

The more important question is, "How big of a meal can you eat without stopping, with at least 20 miles to go, and did you bring any wipes?"

Pratt

Probably, two eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, toast, OJ, coffee.

Troul 

thanksgiving

Ghazmh

A T-bone steak cheese eggs and Welch’s grape. Oh and a dumpster vodka chaser.

CAT7RDR

4 In-N-Out Double-Doubles
2 fries
1 Choc Shake
16 y/o so I did not know better.

andrewclaus

Here's a quote from my journal of my Northern Tier tour a few years ago:

"I made a good decision by pure chance today. I passed up a questionable eating establishment in Harpers Ferry, Iowa, even though I was hungry and my pack was low on food. I pushed on 14 miles to Marquette and there's a casino here with a buffet! And they're serving Sunday brunch, complete with omelet station. And seven-fruit pie.Too bad leaving town was a long steep grade in the sun with calm wind. Every belch was a risk and it was a very curious feeling. I even passed some feed lots and a dead skunk, just to add to the challenge. But the climb passed uneventfully."

pdlamb

Breakfast at Scott City, KS. (OK, that was before the day's ride.) Coffee, OJ, sausage, and three of the biggest pancakes I've ever seen. I've seen two-layer cakes that were smaller than that stack. I ran out of stomach volume before I ran out of pancakes. Good fuel for the day's ride!

indyfabz

When I did the Northern Tier with a group of 12 others, we learned to ask about pancake size in Cut Bank, MT. I and another participant finished the 70-mile, windy day from Magrath, AB to Cut Bank. There had been only one little store along the route, and we were both starving. Walked into a cafe and each ordered two pancakes. They were HUGE and thick. Learned that some people call pancakes that size "horse blankets."

rumrunn6

did a nice long ride & at the turnaround, made the mistake of adding a coffee & cookie from dunkin's. got on the bike & in about a minute threw-up a little. just turned my head & spit it out & kept riding. ah, city life ...

10 Wheels

Small meals work best for me when riding. Like six a day.

mtnbud

Erzulis Boat 

My "biggest" was a post ride dinner. I did a hellish 58 mile MTB ride without any food, and bonked badly at the end. I was ravenous, and hit up a Sushi bar back in town.

I ordered roll after roll, and also had a Sapporo. By that evening, I had a massive headache (dehydration) that was so bad, the only way to somewhat calm the trip-hammer in my skull was to stand. Brutal night.

livedarklions

The buffet at this place with 35 miles of a century left to go. My stomach hurt for a few miles, but totally worth it: About

Gotta love a buffet with all you can eat salmon AND lamb.

rsbob 

Back in my 30s when I belonged to a regular weekend cycling group, at about mile 20 or 60, we would stop for a cinnamon roll or pastry at this fantastic bakery and restaurant. They served big breakfasts as well which were delicious, but we knew better since there were a long set of hills coming up on that route. When we had a newbie with us and they decided to order a full breakfast, we would just keep silent, knowing what ills would befall them when we hit the hills and it was hammer time. The newbies learned in a hurry to keep the meal small or else they might be at the side of the road regretting their decision. Cruel? Sadistic? Funny? It was a right of passage to the group.

My biggest meal now is an energy bar or Gue.

zandoval 

Biggest meal? Brunch back in the late 70's at Ft Hood... Our stick rolled out of the mess hall after a big Big BIG meal. We had not eaten all night and morning after drawing 320 pints of blood in the field for BAMC Burn Center at Ft Sam, San Antonio. We were surprised that two UH-1's were tasked with getting us back because Marine burn victims from Japan needed the blood. For a UH-1 it was a short bumpy ride in the mid day Texas heat. Man... What a nasty mess... Made me wonder if any of us had actually chewed our food.

After off loading the blood we stayed another two hours to help the Crew Chief clean off his deck...

tomato coupe

My record is the filet mignon, lasagna, and 18" pizza I ate the night before my scheduled execution. (The Governor pardoned me at the last minute.)

CroMo Mike 

The half-way point of an 80-mile club ride. A McDonalds at 11:00 AM. Just before they change over from breakfast to lunch. I got a hotcakes, sausage, and potato hash brown. When that was gone, I went back up for a quarter pounder and fries and a coke. It all rode very nicely for the trip home, no regrets.

shelbyfv

^^^^ I'd have to be on a "bent or e-bike to hold all that down for 40 miles. Y'all are some serious eaters.

canklecat

At the 75 mile mark during a solo century a few years ago I joined some friends for a group dinner ride to finish the final 25 miles. We stopped at a German restaurant. I'd only been snacking on energy bars so I was very hungry. German noodles, pork, cheesecake, other stuff I can't even remember, with three heavy German beers.

I was foamy and burpy but happy all the way home. Finished with about 115 miles.

My most memorable century and longer rides have all been fairly leisurely all day affairs with at least one big meal, including some long rides in Baja during the 1970s-early '80s, stopping at a cantina or two along the way. I can't say I enjoyed the century rides that were more race-ish, with deadlines and more huffing and puffing. Now at 65 with pretty severe neck problems, I can't do any continuous rides longer than an hour or so without stopping to stretch a bit, so I don't do long event or group rides anymore. I still occasionally do longer rides solo at my own pace.

Alas, that family owned German restaurant closed during the pandemic, as the owner was ready to retire anyway, and nobody else in the family was interested in taking on what had basically been a labor of love for the owner for decades. So I won't be able to repeat that specific experience.

Bogey Speedwell

For a moment I thought you may be the legend I remember….., then you said Schlitz LOL