Bike & Sports Drink Flavors that you've known and loved (and yes, also those that taste like guano)

go for the maurice garin approach

Garin rode 701 km in 24 hours, beating the only other rider to finish by 49 km. Garin said he had survived on

lots of strong red wine
19 litres of hot chocolate
seven litres of tea
eight cooked eggs
a mix of coffee and champagne
45 cutlets
five litres of tapioca
two kilos of rice
and oysters.

I don't know how brands differ in the UK and the US, but the ones I am happy to use repeatedly:

High5 4-1 energy drinks - summer fruits flavour (I think?). Does the job, claims amazing special carbs give super-benefits, tastes okay

ZipVit chocolate orange protein recovery bars - kinda heavy but genuinely tasty.

But the king of omg delicious cycling foodz are these, in cola: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/PowerBar_Rideshots_Box_Of_16_Packets/5360041712/

"a mix of coffee and champagne" !!!!!!!

that sounds REVOLTING yet i would try it.

i dabbled with some energy foodz on that otways ride a couple months back - liked the vanilla GU goo packs, also had 'winners' brand energy bars which i only ended up consuming one on the day - choc mint was tasty, the evans-endorsed 'cadel mountain mix' was a blend of nuts, grains and berries and was also pretty dece actually.

would not try