Old 08-01-21, 11:23 AM
  #55  
kaos joe
Senior Member
 
kaos joe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,405

Bikes: Trek 5200, Rivendell Atlantis, Soma DoubleCross, Bilenky Signature tandem, Cannondale RT3000 tandem, Santa Cruz TallBoy, Kona Explosif, Bridgestone MB2

Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 386 Post(s)
Liked 165 Times in 90 Posts
Ohhhh, man. 3 pages.

OK, we have 4 problems here. We've all faced these before.

Problem #1. Unpleasant taste from the tap. Solution, lemonade powder, iced tea powder, etc. Whatever suits one's taste.

#2. Unpleasant taste from plastic bottles. Solution, stainless steel bottles such as Kleen Kanteen, etc. Work great, except you have to stop and uncap rather than squeeze away. Not a problem.

#3. "Pissy warm" water. Solution, make the stainless bottles the vacuum insulated version. Extremely efficient, will keep things cool for HOURS longer than the plastic "insulated" bottles. Which themselves work fairly well.

#4. Upset stomach. Solution, on the very remote chance that microorganisms in municipal water are causing issues, a filter such as Sawyer. Weigh next to nothing, work well. Never have had any issues filtering surface water in the back country, so should be double insurance on treated municipal water.

That's all I've got.

Last edited by kaos joe; 08-01-21 at 12:34 PM.
kaos joe is offline