'Sticky Bottles'

Today is Milan-San Remo - the first and longest race of the main cycling season. We can hope that Mark Cavendish has a good chance, although his crash yesterday casts some shadow on this. As a race which is traditionally associated with sprinters, a second place would be a bad omen for Cav's season.

On such a long race, rehydration is essential and cyclists are allowed to collect water from the team cars. The so called 'sticky bottle' is an excellent way of then helping them get back into the peleton without too much energy expenditure. It's not cheating - honest!

Check out how this works in this video:

Sorry that my first blog for so long is about cycling not politics. More of a balance between my two passions will be achieved in future.