How often do you buy new water bottles?
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if you use a camelback bottle with the one way valve make sure you take valve apart and clean it regularly. It will get full of black mold, they are easy to take apart and clean.
if you never have give it a try
if you never have give it a try
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I use the Camelback Podium bottle I want to say I use them for about 5 years until they crack along the bottles edge.
I clean the valve after every use with the back end of the bottle brush, the very small part about the size of the inside of the valve. If I use water on a short midweek ride, I rinse them with water. If a longer weekend ride involving a sport drink, I brush them out.
Every few uses, they are soaked in bleach for a good cleaning.
I do have about 10 podium bottles but only use 2 till one breaks. Then replace.
Gotta love the non drip valves!
I clean the valve after every use with the back end of the bottle brush, the very small part about the size of the inside of the valve. If I use water on a short midweek ride, I rinse them with water. If a longer weekend ride involving a sport drink, I brush them out.
Every few uses, they are soaked in bleach for a good cleaning.
I do have about 10 podium bottles but only use 2 till one breaks. Then replace.
Gotta love the non drip valves!
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I have never replaced a water bottle, unless I like a new design or logo on the bottle. In that case I just add to the collection. I have a lot of vintage bottles of dubious composition, so I use the newer ones.
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I haven't bought any water bottles in over 5 years. I get them free from trade/sports shows or find them left in parks or sometimes on side of road.
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If I add too much bleach, I am concerned about the bleach causing damage to the plastic.
I think its the cap that gets the attention and perhaps most of the germs.
Nowadays, I don't use bleach for the cap. I soak just the cap in hydrogen peroxide, using a coffee cup. This might take longer like 10 minutes. Then I use a cotton Q-tip to clean out the mouth piece to remove the crud.
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I use the Camelback Podium bottle I want to say I use them for about 5 years until they crack along the bottles edge.
I clean the valve after every use with the back end of the bottle brush, the very small part about the size of the inside of the valve. If I use water on a short midweek ride, I rinse them with water. If a longer weekend ride involving a sport drink, I brush them out.
Every few uses, they are soaked in bleach for a good cleaning.
I do have about 10 podium bottles but only use 2 till one breaks. Then replace.
Gotta love the non drip valves!
I clean the valve after every use with the back end of the bottle brush, the very small part about the size of the inside of the valve. If I use water on a short midweek ride, I rinse them with water. If a longer weekend ride involving a sport drink, I brush them out.
Every few uses, they are soaked in bleach for a good cleaning.
I do have about 10 podium bottles but only use 2 till one breaks. Then replace.
Gotta love the non drip valves!
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This YouTube video does a good job on describing the cleaning process. I put them in a bowl of hot soapy water with a cap full of bleach and let soak for 1/2 hour.
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If you are using water from a public water system it will have a minimum of .2 PPM and a max of 4 PPM of chlorine at the tap
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& since Skylab broke up in the atmosphere .. on the way down It ha a Plutonium reactor on board... past choices have ongoing effects...
Fukushima Daiichi ?
topic a long ways from water bottles like you're a long ways from spring?
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Fukushima Daiichi ?
topic a long ways from water bottles like you're a long ways from spring?
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Yep, that's the way I see it. I use Camelbak Podium Chill bottles almost exclusively. They are a pain to clean the nozzle when mold starts growing in them but it can be done. When the inside starts getting yukky, they go in the dishwasher on sanitize cycle and come out like new.
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Years ago I made the mistake of putting my water bottles in boiling water. My thinking was that the boiling water would kill whatever bacteria was growing in there. All that ended up happening is that bottles became hard to squeeze. Not my smartest move.
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This YouTube video does a good job on describing the cleaning process. I put them in a bowl of hot soapy water with a cap full of bleach and let soak for 1/2 hour.
Another general rule is that if I need to youtube how to clean a water bottle, then its is over-engineered and not for me. It shouldnt take a video sharing site to teach me how to clean a plastic water bottle.
Im lazy though.
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My 9-year-old granddaughter accusingly asked me, how many water bottles do you own, grandpa? I decided to count them. I had to sheepishly reply, 62.
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@bocobiking you could have told her they are her inheritance...
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I would be more worried about replacing the water bottle cage than I would the bottles. I learned the hard way that the cages can lose their spring and don't hold the bottles as well. Mine let go of my water bottle and flipped me. Fortunately, I was on a country road and I wasn't thrown into any oncoming traffic, but I definitely ended upside down on the other side of the road.
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Water bottles
I keep 2. One in my frame rack and the other in a daypack. I never add anything to the bottles like electrolye or energy drinks. This is what gums them up and gives the water and off taste. On really long rides I will have a plastic soda bottle, drink that and add powder and fill with water. I dispose of it after the ride.
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I haven't bought a water bottle in 30 years, but I seem to accumulate them from events and giveaways frequently enough that I end up recycling a pile of the cheap ones regularly. The bottles I use on most of my rides are nearly as old as my college-aged kids.
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I have 1 Camelback bottle. It sits unused on the top shelf and I doubt it was used at all in 2018. I have 0 interest in having to set up a cleaning process beyond the regular cleaning process done for all the rest of our dishes. If I cant toss a water bottle in the dishwasher to get fully clean, it wont be used.
Another general rule is that if I need to youtube how to clean a water bottle, then its is over-engineered and not for me. It shouldnt take a video sharing site to teach me how to clean a plastic water bottle.
Im lazy though.
Another general rule is that if I need to youtube how to clean a water bottle, then its is over-engineered and not for me. It shouldnt take a video sharing site to teach me how to clean a plastic water bottle.
Im lazy though.
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Water/bleach would be my suggestion. Another might be to put it in the dishwasher (with a dishload), set on "Sanitize" cycle (if there is one), turn off heated dry (to prevent warping any plastics).
Works for me....
Works for me....