Back to Basics – Fuelling with Booze and Cigarettes
Early days of cycling nutrition were wild! There were no nutritionists, no team chefs, not even team members to help out! Riders had to fend for themselves. That’s why things like smoking to “open up” lungs, hydrating with beer, or drinking 11 litres of hot chocolate per day weren’t unusual. Let’s look at what cycling nutrition used to be like compared with today.
