When do you replace your bike bottle

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 The Potato 29 Oct 2022

Looking in my cupboard i notice I've got a few bottles in various states of use


I replace my bottle when

It looks scruffy
I lose it
It doesn't match my bike
There's one on offer
Hell freezes over
Mould is not destroyed by neat Bleach
its worn out
After I've thrown them at the car that just cut me up
When a fat bloke yanks his kid up el cap
I see a shiny new one
Throw to cheering fans when empty
The correct number if water bottles is n+1
NEVER
SIS/Power Bar/etc. have a sale on a bottle full of gels
Don't have one - hydration is for wimps
When it cracks and starts leaking
I've used it as a petrol bomb
bike bottle?
When my domestique hands me a fresh one
When I lose it
Once a year
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 Dave Cundy 30 Oct 2022
In reply to The Potato:

I'll throw mine to cheering fans.  Promise.

As if...

When they get too scruffy, they get demoted to caving duty.

 im off 30 Oct 2022
In reply to The Potato:

When my son nicks it 😖

 LastBoyScout 31 Oct 2022
In reply to The Potato:

I like the SIS bottles for riding with, as I like the bite valves. Only time I've thrown a bottle away is when the rubber parts of the bite valve split.

Given a few away, such as a couple to my cousin when I was having a clear-out, as I didn't like the red tops with my new grey bike and SIS had started doing black tops.

Otherwise, pretty much all my bottles have been freebies from some event/promotion and occasionally get used for other sports.

 Ixtlan 22 Dec 2022
In reply to The Potato:

When I had to use it to pee into whilst caught short in the car after a ride. The missus was insistent that it went, I would have been happy to swill it out and continue lol

OP The Potato 22 Dec 2022
In reply to Ixtlan:

Nothing wrong with a bit of pee, much fewer bacteria than our mouths!


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