The method to dealing with cramps for me usually is to eat a banana before riding, if its a long ride, maybe pack 1 more in your jersey. Eat it when you feel you need more energy.

Cramp usually is caused by low potassium or magnesium or electrolytes (maybe salt stick is too easy to digest and hilang?).Banana can help to prevent cramps, but once you cramp it does not help to relief it.

Most of the cycling club are free. As long as you follow their ride rules, most of them will welcome you.

There are some local bicycle shops organizing free rides. You can join them and as support for them, buy lah 1-2 things you like from time to time.

There are also paid membership available worldwide. Rapha! Haha.

Usually only rides with support vehicles has fee to it. Normal weekly ride, be it from a cycling club or bicycle shop has no monetary cost to it except to be self sufficient and come prepared with extra tubes, pump and what not

Thanks! Good to know, i usually just ride with 1 or 2 friends, am thinking of either making a team or joining 1.

Wow i saw Taipei has a Rapha cycling club which also owns a cafe, dam that's nice!

I have never ridden with any support vehicles before, what do they usually do with a support vehicle? Help if there is a mechanical problem?

Ya i usually ride locally, and have to bring my own spare parts in case of a puncture.

start a team? what's the name?

shout allez allez allez! venga venga venga! vai vai vai!

Depends actually, the more support given, the more cost it will incurred and has to be shared with every riders. The kinds of support given are like

Support vehicle (could be a van, a car or pick up truck) to pick up cyclists who couldnt continue the ride (either injury, cramp, etc). The support vehicle as well carries drinks and foods in case if someone needs it urgently. The cost would be covering to fuel, food and drinks to be carried inside the vehicle, rental if necessary and payment for the driver.

My experience with support vehicle before when we were doing hell's loop / GAP loop / Fraser's loop. 210KM, started at 7 in the morning and finished by 7 in the evening. Each of us paid RM 40 (about 15 of us) to have a van to carry our stuffs when we ride and pick up any rider who couldnt continue the ride. Yes, we had a minor accident during that ride and thankfully that we had a support vehicle to carry the rider and his bicycle

Team cats and bears are better as carcasses cycling club

how about team raphahaha.du ?

This post has been edited by miaopurr: Nov 21 2018, 03:08 PM

won't happen

anything is possible. rapha oso become walmart ady. so...

you think walmart = tesco?

We're thinking on naming it 66 Cycling Team.

I'm based in Penang, tied to a bike shop near airport, a start-up shop called Speevo Cycles
https://www.facebook.com/speevocycle/

Wow Fraser's loop seems deadly! we usually ride round Penang island which is around 80km.
Support vehicle is good RM40 is not bad for decent group of riders, and also a backup incase of emergency like in your case.

haha need or not... later cycling team become like zoo!

Rapha like walmart

How walmart leh?

masuk sekali arnab
as makanan

Noted sifu...

That's very near to where I am staying right now!

This post has been edited by ChipZ: Nov 21 2018, 11:08 PM