Bib Shorts Down - Up Your Nose

Anyone watch the Bib Shorts Down documentary on Cycling.Tv - it's a
documentary about the Barloworld team at the Tour of Lankawi?
Definitely worth checking out if you like the Hard Road, Road to Paris
type of thing.

Anyway, there are a couple of pre-race prep scenes where riders have
cotton stuffed in their noses. Must be something to open up the nasal
passages, but does anyone know what it is? I haven't seen that before
and would be interested to know what it is because clearing those
passages is always a problem for me. Thanks.

On 30 Jul 2005 14:54:45 -0700, wrote:

Anyone watch the Bib Shorts Down documentary on Cycling.Tv - it's a
documentary about the Barloworld team at the Tour of Lankawi?
Definitely worth checking out if you like the Hard Road, Road to Paris
type of thing.

Anyway, there are a couple of pre-race prep scenes where riders have
cotton stuffed in their noses. Must be something to open up the nasal
passages, but does anyone know what it is? I haven't seen that before
and would be interested to know what it is because clearing those
passages is always a problem for me. Thanks.

They use some sort of mentholated oil on the cotton. Kinda the vaporub
principle, except you can leave it behind after the race starts. Fairly common
practice in cyclocross.

Ron

Anyone know what, exactly, is on the cotton? Thx

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Anyone know what, exactly, is on the cotton? Thx

Gee, thanks for the useless post.