View Poll Results: What do you match your water bottles to?
Match to the bike
33
33.67%
Match to the kit
6
6.12%
Nope!
42
42.86%
All the cool kids have Camelbaks
17
17.35%
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Water Bottles...What To Match?
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This thread got me worried: does my bottle rack coozie need to match my pogies? Am I doing it wrong??
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This thread got me worried: does my bottle rack coozie need to match my pogies? Am I doing it wrong??
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In all seriousness, I think it should be clear bottles and the liquid color is whatever is in there at the time. I prefer Melon Powerade or Peach Mello Yello from one of those mixing machines. On longer rides, it is whatever you can get. I've been on organized rides where the color/flavor of the sports drink provided changed at every fill station. I guess a rider could carry a food coloring kit to change the color of their liquid. That would take their dork status to an all time high.
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Dork of all dorks here......I slip the insulated bottles into insulated socks colored to match my kit. Keeps the drink colder much longer on those 95F days. Shoes and socks also match kit.
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Cageless. Because I can't get a matching cage.
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uh, yeah. I even match my fitbit wristband to my bike. Celeste when riding my Bianchis.
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Yes, it's shocking how many people would match bottles to bike.
However, upon further consideration, it would seem appropriate to match the tires (black) or color of the bar tape or saddle ( i.e. other soft bits) if they contrast with the frame, but matching plastic bottles to frame color otherwise is just obscene.
However, upon further consideration, it would seem appropriate to match the tires (black) or color of the bar tape or saddle ( i.e. other soft bits) if they contrast with the frame, but matching plastic bottles to frame color otherwise is just obscene.
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I think gum walls would be a little over the top.
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Given the black rims and distribution of color on the saddle, a closer match might be tires that are fully tan including the tread. But that would require using a low-quality tread compound, a situation which obviously must be avoided at all costs.
Also, any tan on the tires might clash with the silver bits in the drivetrain... I think the component color variation creates just enough disunity that such a blunt attempt to unify the bike with the tires would look a little odd.
Also, any tan on the tires might clash with the silver bits in the drivetrain... I think the component color variation creates just enough disunity that such a blunt attempt to unify the bike with the tires would look a little odd.
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My bike is white and some blue + black.
I usually have all black bibs + us postal jersey
I used bottles that I got spectating the TdF or other races, but with time the moisture was too much, so I bought two random transparent/gray bottles.
I like to have 1 bottle of grenadine so the light red through the transparent bottle doesn't match at all my bike but i don't really care
I used to have a white/blue giro helmet too but now I had a black and red one from my brother.
Anyway, if you want to be pro they should match your kit and your bike since both should already be matched if you are considering matching things.
I gotta admit a perfectly matched bike (tires, frame, fork, saddle, handlebars, even components) and kit, shoes, bottles and bottle cages looks really nasty.
I usually have all black bibs + us postal jersey
I used bottles that I got spectating the TdF or other races, but with time the moisture was too much, so I bought two random transparent/gray bottles.
I like to have 1 bottle of grenadine so the light red through the transparent bottle doesn't match at all my bike but i don't really care
I used to have a white/blue giro helmet too but now I had a black and red one from my brother.
Anyway, if you want to be pro they should match your kit and your bike since both should already be matched if you are considering matching things.
I gotta admit a perfectly matched bike (tires, frame, fork, saddle, handlebars, even components) and kit, shoes, bottles and bottle cages looks really nasty.
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