Hey Josh, Congee in a bottle sounds like an amazing idea. I scramble eggs and use some chicken apple sausage (for the 200k I used leftover fish cake I had) and mix with rice. I usually add some extra saltiness/umami via soy sauce. I place it on nori (sushi seaweed) and roll it like a california roll. I slice in half and put it in a baggie for me to eat during the ride. This is a variation on Skratch labs: https://www.skratchlabs.com/blogs/recipes/dr-lims-bacon-and-egg-rice-cakes
Depending upon the temperature of the ride, I can carry around enough for 300k, but I haven't tried longer (since the meat is perishable). Previously I switched over to date and nut bars kind of like Lara bars. I like figs more, so I am thinking about trying to make a fig and nut bar of similar consistency instead of dates. I'll try it for my next ride. Toshi On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM Josh Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Toshi always curious about your onigiri consumption on brevets! > > I did a 600 in October and carried a 10 oz squeeze bottle of congee that I > made in my Berthoud front pocket. I think I'll try that one again. > > Josh in NYC > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 10:09 PM Toshi Takeuchi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As part of my preparation for the really long rides, I decided to drop >> weight on my bike where I thought I could compromise. >> >> Where did I lose substantial weight? >> >> 1. Plastic fenders to aluminum fenders (-300g) >> 2. Hetre EL 42 mm--> Ecureil 38 mm (-260g) (Only front is Ecureil for >> 300k) >> 3. Plastic saddle: Fizik Tempo Aliante R3 Adaptive (-200g) Really >> comfortable for a plastic saddle. Does have a couple of points on sit >> bones that I'm not used to (narrower than my normal saddle), but will >> easily adapt (will not chafe). >> 4. Front bag--Berthoud bag with decaleur needs no stiffener inserts >> (-200g) >> >> I also got some shiny (affordable, Chinese-made) titanium water bottle >> cages on ebay that work great and save me another 40g. All in all, I'm >> dropping over 2 lbs, which is pretty good. >> >> My training is a little lean, as I didn't do any rides over 15 miles long >> over the last month between the 200k and 300k. However, I do commute to >> work almost every day (5x/wk) and get about 1300 ft of daily climbing in. >> >> The 300k is really beautiful and not that hilly (relatively speaking), >> which makes for a really nice ride. I've also done the ride many times, so >> I know what I need to do to finish it. >> >> I finished at around 15 1/4 hours, which is great for me, given my lazy >> conditioning. >> >> The much harder 400k and 600k are in the next two months. I hope to have >> the fortitude to complete those rides. A pic from the start of the 300k is >> below with my latest setup. >> >> Toshi >> [image: IMG_2102.jpg] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGB59xx6z%3D9f_aRoAH%2BgoBrBYRVGpxn8ttyCctu%3Dj0UxxZAacg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGB59xx6z%3D9f_aRoAH%2BgoBrBYRVGpxn8ttyCctu%3Dj0UxxZAacg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAJua_7AZACWAYsO_OG7n72L0D3bx99HhiLx3nq_24dk7TTE%2BNw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAJua_7AZACWAYsO_OG7n72L0D3bx99HhiLx3nq_24dk7TTE%2BNw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGB59xxUz048ZyO8HLw9_3yx-ZPA2-dbTPOi7H9a9m2Yjp0m3g%40mail.gmail.com.
