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Usually bad tap water taste is dissolved minerals, they are dissolved and are not particulates, thus you can't filter them out with a particulate filter. Generally a carbon filter is best at filtering out organic compounds, it is a molecular bonding adsorption process and generally inorganic minerals like iron do not readily adsorb to activated carbon very well.
Like I said above in post 3 there are a lot of ways to hide bad taste by adding a bit of flavor.
Or, you can buy the expensive bottled stuff. The one liter size Smart Water and one liter size Life WTR (in Canada, Life Water) bottles fit well in standard bottle cages, but they are tall bottles and your frame might limit how tall a bottle will fit. On tour, I use those bottles because of the large size and I refill them.