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Take one of those and you will have "happy face"

I think I'll stick to cold burritos and the like...

Their veggie curry is 55kcal/100g not sure that's even worth eating!

There are some other brandz with much higher calories. Warm food is a big mental uplift in its own right, also means you are radiating heat into your bag. If you get in cold you stay cold.

Of course... but ignoring the psychological boost as this probably varies from person-to-person, warm food/drink does give you a quick "hit" of heat but you also generate heat while digesting... Does the food being hot make a noticeable difference over 2-6 hours while you sleep?

Another cold-weather-sleeping tip, if you wake up cold and need to pee, go pee! You're wasting energy keeping that pee warm inside you, it's better spent keeping your other vital organs roasty toasty :)

I just bought a pizza and carried half of it in a bag. Maybe not hot but calorie dense.

Masturbate.

Ha, reminds me of PBP- used to put half eaten food in jersey pocket for laters.

That's where my pizza went - in my jacket pocket. Poor fuckers in the pizza shop have seen everything now..

When you have a sad on, any boost is worth having, mine is usually having a spare pair of dry socks to change into.

You.....masturbated in a pizza shop?

Spare socks are my "luxury item" too.

Was just curious if there was any science to say eating hot food keeps you a lot warmer/warmer for longer etc. compared to eating cold food :)

Better than masturbating outside a pizza shop.

I mean, it was cold out.

If you eat cold food, your body has to bring it to body temp, which uses energy.
Maybe just psychological boost from hot food? Physical boost? Hmm?

Works for me- on ultra marathons I carry a lightweight flask and try and keep it charged with hot coffee/soup. Thinking about it for Trans Am too.

Surely the friction from the chewing of the food creates heat...

I'll stop now.

Many a time I have wished for a thermos instead of a bidon on my bike.

I've still not got around to finding/implementing a solution and even if I did I'm not sure I'd actually seek out and use hot water or coffee that much. Service stations and their little hatches have sufficed for the most part - had some fun chats with locals at these. Got loads of high fives (not a euph) at the last one when they found out where I'd been.

Chewing?

I used a thermos this winter for hot drinks, nice to have but the problem I found was that it keeps heat so well 4 hours later it is still too hot to drink!

I'd pour it on myself in that case.

The Apidura kit has arrived, its 10x better than Alpkit.

Digital Camera thread >>>

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don't get me started on that, I'm rigging up a go pro on time lapse so I can bore everyone to death.

Update on my spendathon- the back up sinewave has arrived, (after forking out £25 in customs charges). Its tiny and light, so tempted to keep as a contingency as originally planned.
With just over 3 weeks to go, I'm messing around and changing shit then changing it back again (saddles atm) "If its not broken, fuck with it until it is"

Definition of brave (not me I hasten to add);

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It's less brave than using one of Zipps recalled hubs :)

Which I really should be sending back one of these days.

I put Zipp Vuka aerobars on the Kinesis but they put me too far forward so the SMP saddle I've been testing isn't very comfortable. Keep scooting around on it. Wish I could find something as comfy as my ISM but for longer than 24hrs.

Also fitted side-mount cages to test them out. I've got my Deuter frame bag on it for BCM - it's annoying me already - hate stuff touching my legs when pedaling.

The dropper cage mount I got from @CarlosBI arrived but I need different length bolts or washer combination to clear the band-on derailler and fit the Profile cages I have. I could try a different/thinner cage but ran out of time. What I might do is see if it works after I've added a pump mount to the frame - that might take up enough bolt space to stop it touching the frame.

Swapped wheels last night too, just because the bearings in the front were shot and the cassette on this set is bigger so more useful in Wales.