Spring Classics Riders Prefer Rice Cakes

Behind-the-scenes coverage from Paris-Roubaix has shown team cars stocked with homemade rice cakes over commercial products. Riders at the sport’s highest level, during one of its hardest one-day races, chose something made in a kitchen over engineered fuel. The usual reason is gut tolerance — rice cakes digest cleanly under sustained hard effort in ways that some gels and bars don’t, particularly over five or six hours of racing. Worth trying if you’re someone who deals with GI problems on long or intense rides.