Video: Peter Sagan hoovers up the Haribo after winning in Belgium this weekend

Alansmurphy, thanks for the precisions and sharing .

I'll have a chat with my friend about that and try to better understand how he manages his blood sugars... and difficulties that come with. Makes me more impressed of him given the average speed he manages!

Keep enjoying the ride Alans!

Irun - I am diabetic and it's even more complicated for your friend than you would think.

Sugars are meant to be in a range of 5-9mmol - and on a big power day mine can drop by about 3-5 per hour. A Mars bar will quickly elevate the sugars but can be burned off in a matter of minutes so following with a carb or slow release is needed (my choice is usually flapjack).

Here's the fun though, if I start a ride with blood sugars of 12, aniticipating that after an hour it may be 9 and then on a downward trend, my body goes into shock to mess me up. Upwards of a certain level and with hard exercise the body will start to break down the sugars you store and push them around your body.

One week I started with 9.8 - had a flapjack, a cake at the coffee stop andcame home a little low (3). The following week starting at 12 I just had carrot cake and came home to 28.3mmol.

And when the sugar lows come on, they can be quite epic. I managed to stop and talk to my riding partner at the arranged meeting point on Sunday then ride towards his house looking for him! I have also been rescued from a Jacuzzi and cycled into a parked car!

Man eats sweets.  This is news?

Still, suppose it's better than the eternal disc brake bollocks.

It is important to get the Haribo feeding schedule correct though. Starmix or Supermix towards the last part of a ride, and the Tangfastics only for the final push home-kind of like the finishing bottle of sweets!

So did anyone get him some Scooby Snacks? Hey: enquiring minds want to know...

Don't know why but it reminds me a riding mate on sunday's who's got diabetes. We usually stop and pause half way through the ride to let him do 'insulin check'. And he eats Haribos and Mars bars to regulate his blood sugar.  And on the road again...

Get ready for "60 Minutes" to do an expose on the evil that is "Bear Doping". 

I'm not the only one who doesn't make sense after a long ride until some sugar is consumed then?

I call it 'bike drunk'. I've had to apologise to the staff in my local before now for staring gormlessly at the pumps. And I'm seldom burying myself anywhere near what Sagan does. I find I 'come to' after half of my pint of cider. Obviously, Sagan has found Haribo works for him, especially since he has to make some kind of sense in front of the world's media in a second language...

"I was given contaminated gummi bears soaked in EPO, Your Honour."

And who doesn't like Haribo? ... I keep several mini packs handy for when I need a sweet treat ... Tangfastics are my fave, closely followed by Starmix :@).