antics@druak.UUCP (GeigerL) (08/12/85)
<bugline> The biggest letdown to me about hot weather riding is to suffer the taste of lukewarm or hot water from my plastic water bottle. But, there is a simple solution. Freeze the water bottle before going riding. What you get is slowly defrosted water that is ice-cold and doesn't taste like plastic (too much). In my freezer is a whole array of water bottles filled at different levels. If the temperature is only going to be 75(F), then I take a bottle that is only 1/4 ice and fill it with water. If I'm starting at 7 in the morning and its 75(F), then I take two bottles, both completely frozen. Anytime someone tries my bottle, they're amazed at how I got those ice cubes in that tiny hole. Sigh...... Lisa Geiger AT&T Information Systems ihnp4!druak!antics Denver, Colorado
wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner) (08/13/85)
From antics@druak.UUCP (GeigerL) : > The biggest letdown to me about hot weather riding is to > suffer the taste of lukewarm or hot water from my plastic water > bottle. But, there is a simple solution. > > Freeze the water bottle before going riding. What you get > is slowly defrosted water that is ice-cold and doesn't taste like > plastic (too much). > This is fine for your first water bottle, but what do you do when you have to refill your bottle on the road? My solution is to pull a sweatsock over each bottle and soak it. The evaporative cooling is really quite substantial, especially if you periodically re-soak the sock. Note, too, that the water used to soak the sock need not be of drinkable quality, e.g. you can dip your bottles in any roadside stream you pass by. If you don't believe this works, try it! Dave Wagner University of Washington Comp Sci Department wagner@washington.arpa {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!uw-beaver!uw-wally!wagner "The surest thing there is is we are riders, And though none too successful at it, guiders, Through everything presented, land and tide And now the very air, of what we ride." - Frost
keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) (08/14/85)
In article <769@druak.UUCP> antics@druak.UUCP (Lisa Geiger) writes: > The biggest letdown to me about hot weather riding is to >suffer the taste of lukewarm or hot water from my plastic water >bottle. But, there is a simple solution. . . . > Freeze the water bottle before going riding. What you get >is slowly defrosted water that is ice-cold and doesn't taste like >plastic (too much). A simpler solution is to buy a Cannondale water bottle. Standard size ice cubes easily fit through the wide mouth of the Cannondale, and you can fill it with whatever percentage of ice you want, rather than worrying about overfilling the bottle with water and having it crack when it freezes. -- Morris M. Keesan keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan