I found a cool forum topic over at SingleTracks.com about different things people do before they go riding. Here are a few things from the posts…

My best pre-ride trick, which I’M NOT ADVOCATING… is that I normally have about 6-8 beers the night before I go riding. I call it carbo loading, but I do my best riding with a light hangover. Weird.

But before a ride, this is my menu:

4 whole wheat pancakes swimming in lightly salted butter and 100% natural maple syrup.
3 eggs w/ 1/2 lb of grated cheese melted in them
2 glasses of orange juice
2 cups of espresso (coffee cups, not those BS little shotglass cups)

Check out the rest of the posts here.