How do you drink from your bottle?
06-23-21, 09:22 PM
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0 - locate drinking procedure checklist.
1 - i pull over to the side and stop.
2 - remove the bottle from the cage.
3 - unscrew the lid and take a drink
4 - screw the lid back on.
5 - put the bottle back in the cage
6 - continue riding.
7 - stow drinking procedure checklist.
1 - i pull over to the side and stop.
2 - remove the bottle from the cage.
3 - unscrew the lid and take a drink
4 - screw the lid back on.
5 - put the bottle back in the cage
6 - continue riding.
7 - stow drinking procedure checklist.
06-23-21, 10:00 PM
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And seriously - I suck like the gent in that photo. (I was decades into drinking that mode before i ever saw footage of the pros drinking from the corner of their mouths.) I simultaneously squeeze; not hard enough to get leakage and wet but enough that I can drink 2/3s of a bottle on one swig. Use the ubiquitous Specialized bottles and (preferred) the bottles with brownish plastic and a wider nozzle. Those preferred ones don't drink faster but they are much higher quality bottles and leak far less.
06-24-21, 02:29 AM
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I use a bota bag and squeeze it from arm's length, like Bacchus and Dionysus intended.
06-24-21, 04:46 AM
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Wow, I'm surprised to find that a few of you also prefer to drink from the bottle. I've not had a problem taking the top off while pedaling and taking a drink. Though I've dropped a bottle on a group ride, I've also experienced dropped bottles of others on rides that weren't taking the top off to drink.
I'll have to look into the high-flow camel backs, but I thought that has been out quite awhile. Besides I don't suck. So not sure how that will help.
While puns and innuendo is partly intended, this is a serious question. My son tells me I need to use regular bidons in the proper way and quit embarrassing him. If he only knew! That alone is more motivation to keep doing what I'm doing. <grin>
I'll have to look into the high-flow camel backs, but I thought that has been out quite awhile. Besides I don't suck. So not sure how that will help.
While puns and innuendo is partly intended, this is a serious question. My son tells me I need to use regular bidons in the proper way and quit embarrassing him. If he only knew! That alone is more motivation to keep doing what I'm doing. <grin>
It will no doubt help save countless other riders who may have not had the courage or mental capacity to ask such a question.
06-24-21, 04:56 AM
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06-24-21, 05:02 AM
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That actually happened to a friend/co-worker during a charity ride in PA Amish/Mennonite county. It rained really hard the second day, and there was a lot of horse crap on the roads because it was Sunday. He got pretty sick and had to seek medical attention.
06-24-21, 07:02 AM
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I picked up one of those while travelling in Spain back in the 80s. It's a real one. Hand sewn with pitch inside to seal it, not one of those cheap fakes with plastic inside. It now hangs in my kitchen as a decoration.
06-24-21, 07:46 AM
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06-24-21, 07:49 AM
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Every bicycle-specific water bottle I've ever tried eventually got all nasty looking from being scratched (the rail-trails kick up a lot of limestone dust) so I just don't bother with them.
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One of the latest posts by some guy wanting to turn a 2XL jersey into a 4XL jersey just makes me scratch my head. I wonder if it's even real. Do people like that really exist?
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Don't stop moving! Keep cap open on standard bottle and give a quick squirt when needed. Relatively hygienic -- depends on how often you wash the bottle.
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06-24-21, 10:06 AM
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There are support groups.
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06-24-21, 11:04 AM
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No bottles here. I took the washer fluid reservoir out of my car, hooked up a Li-ion battery and mounted a switch on the handlebar. Now when I want a drink, I hit the switch and the sprayer shoots a stream of water at my face like a drinking fountain. I wear most of it but it's easier than drinking from a bottle 
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06-24-21, 11:10 AM
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No bottles here. I took the washer fluid reservoir out of my car, hooked up a Li-ion battery and mounted a switch on the handlebar. Now when I want a drink, I hit the switch and the sprayer shoots a stream of water at my face like a drinking fountain. I wear most of it but it's easier than drinking from a bottle
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06-24-21, 12:00 PM
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Squirt only, so far. But now I think I might give this "cap off and gulp" thing a try? Are the cool kids that are using this method stopping first, or doing it on-the-fly?
06-24-21, 01:57 PM
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