Water bottles vrs Camelbacks
07-04-10, 01:59 PM
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Here's a solution I posted over on 41....
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ght=gearhead65
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ght=gearhead65
07-04-10, 03:52 PM
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The beauty of the camelbak bladders is that they need not be worn on your back. For long rides where I know it will be longer between water stops than 2 24oz bottles will take me, I'll pack the camelback bladder in my trunk bag and stop to refill when empty. Gives me a good excuse to stretch out the legs.
07-04-10, 05:52 PM
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Friends,
I share with you my latest modification to my Velo Orange Rando bicycle
I have two frame mounted bottle cages, but I have wanted to have a way to carry a lot more water.
I have devised a way to easily carry a saddle bag mounted Camelbak 100 oz bladder
The Camelback bladder is in the Unibottle insulated pouch. It rides on top of my Acorn saddle bag. It is attached with nlyon straps.
The drinking tube is threaded under the saddle and along the top tube.
To keep the tube in place I have a nylon web ring under the saddle and at the rear of the top tube. The drinking tube is threaded through the nylon rings
A $3 retractable badge reel is attached with a zip tie to the handle bar and the drinking tube. This keeps the drinking tube in place when not in use
I did have to add approx 12 inches of drinking tube length using a Camelbak extension tube kit
So far this works very well
Jesse
I share with you my latest modification to my Velo Orange Rando bicycle
I have two frame mounted bottle cages, but I have wanted to have a way to carry a lot more water.
I have devised a way to easily carry a saddle bag mounted Camelbak 100 oz bladder
The Camelback bladder is in the Unibottle insulated pouch. It rides on top of my Acorn saddle bag. It is attached with nlyon straps.
The drinking tube is threaded under the saddle and along the top tube.
To keep the tube in place I have a nylon web ring under the saddle and at the rear of the top tube. The drinking tube is threaded through the nylon rings
A $3 retractable badge reel is attached with a zip tie to the handle bar and the drinking tube. This keeps the drinking tube in place when not in use
I did have to add approx 12 inches of drinking tube length using a Camelbak extension tube kit
So far this works very well
Jesse
07-08-10, 03:23 PM
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Isn't this the LD forum? Maybe because on your last 400, you seriously ran out of water during a 2.5 hour pass climb at 103°?
This isn't a question of which, it's a question of both. Of course you'll use bottles when you can, but if it's really hot and it's a long time between controls, you might just choose to fill that Camelbak. If you don't have it, you can't.
Depending on terrain, a lighter option is bottles only and a Steripen. Only takes a minute to sterilize a bottle-full, and weighs a lot less than water. I've ridden past many a stream, but not any more. In the desert of course you have to carry water.
This isn't a question of which, it's a question of both. Of course you'll use bottles when you can, but if it's really hot and it's a long time between controls, you might just choose to fill that Camelbak. If you don't have it, you can't.
Depending on terrain, a lighter option is bottles only and a Steripen. Only takes a minute to sterilize a bottle-full, and weighs a lot less than water. I've ridden past many a stream, but not any more. In the desert of course you have to carry water.
07-08-10, 03:49 PM
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07-08-10, 04:01 PM
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I thought you were making that up until I googled it.
I was considering packing a steripen or iodine for my climbs up various canyons around here until a local hobbyist-historian told me about all the runoff chemicals from the old many gold mines here in the mtns.
So I opted for adding two more bottle cages to my touring bike, and buying the largest bottles I could find, (1L).
I was considering packing a steripen or iodine for my climbs up various canyons around here until a local hobbyist-historian told me about all the runoff chemicals from the old many gold mines here in the mtns.
So I opted for adding two more bottle cages to my touring bike, and buying the largest bottles I could find, (1L).
07-08-10, 04:27 PM
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