What happened to sports top bottled water?
10-08-10, 08:14 AM
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What happened to sports top bottled water?
I really like Propel, but the sports tops appear to be gone. They had what I thought the easiest to use sports or sipper tops out there. I always liked having a nice clean fresh bottle every day. Rather then futzing with a water bottle.
But it's not only propel, you have to search to find any bottled water with sipper tops. What gives? Are the fun suckers taking away bottled water?
But it's not only propel, you have to search to find any bottled water with sipper tops. What gives? Are the fun suckers taking away bottled water?
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10-08-10, 09:45 AM
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You gonna eat that?
De-contenting in the bad economy. Cost savings at the water bottler.
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10-08-10, 10:53 AM
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Fill a reusable bottle with good tap-water, rather than pay $2 a bottle, for one that goes in a dump?
remember there are more QC controls on municipal water sources than commercial bottling plants.
flammable well-water where the water-table has been contaminated with 'hydrofracking'
chemicals
and natural gas as a result, aside..
remember there are more QC controls on municipal water sources than commercial bottling plants.
flammable well-water where the water-table has been contaminated with 'hydrofracking'
chemicals
and natural gas as a result, aside..
10-08-10, 11:08 AM
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Stop throwing away perfectly good bottles. Stop giving in to the marketing.
10-10-10, 12:23 PM
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I got a bio-degradable water bottle from local health food store. I refill it, it makes more sense to me than buying bottled water. When it has reached the end of it's useful life, it can be composted.
10-10-10, 12:25 PM
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Then there's the joke that I think has some truth to it: What's Evian® spelled backwards?
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Tap water in stainless bottles.
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they make a water bottle with a built in filter in it. they were giving them away during NYC summer streets as a promotion, you had to do something to get it and it involved uploading something to the internet.
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Originally Posted by wahoonc
Tap water in stainless bottles.
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Agreed. I just got two of the stainless water bottles that VO now offers that fit most bicycle water bottle cages. 27 ounces or just about right to hold a full bottle of wine too for summer picnics.
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Originally Posted by TiberiusBTkirk
they make a water bottle with a built in filter in it. they were giving them away during NYC summer streets as a promotion, you had to do something to get it and it involved uploading something to the internet.
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Originally Posted by KD5NRH
Are bike chicks that easy? I always had to offer a lot more than a water bottle.
To the OP, Gatorade still makes a sport bottle, the spout is elongated to fit the mouth, not nipple like.
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Seems like not too many folks miss the Propel bottles as I do. Which of course explains all.
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10-11-10, 10:06 AM
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I've never really liked those pop-top bottles anyway. The top doesn't help keep water inside when it's open, the plastic bottle is often too stiff to squeeze (I don't need spit backwashed into the bottle), and they're hard to open with your teeth, too. Rubber-topped bike bottles were an improvement already, and I like the Camelbak bottles even better.
I'm trying to wean my fiancée off of buying bottled water. It might take a while, though.
I'm trying to wean my fiancée off of buying bottled water. It might take a while, though.
10-12-10, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by genel
I really like Propel, but the sports tops appear to be gone. They had what I thought the easiest to use sports or sipper tops out there. I always liked having a nice clean fresh bottle every day. Rather then futzing with a water bottle.
But it's not only propel, you have to search to find any bottled water with sipper tops. What gives? Are the fun suckers taking away bottled water?
But it's not only propel, you have to search to find any bottled water with sipper tops. What gives? Are the fun suckers taking away bottled water?
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