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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: The best hot weather riding tip
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:50:19 EDT
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From antics@druak.UUCP (GeigerL) :
> 	The biggest letdown to me about hot weather riding is to 
> suffer the taste of lukewarm or hot water from my plastic water 
> bottle.  But, there is a simple solution.
> 
> 	Freeze the water bottle before going riding.  What you get
> is slowly defrosted water that is ice-cold and doesn't taste like
> plastic (too much).
> 
This is fine for your first water bottle, but what do you do when
you have to refill your bottle on the road?

My solution is to pull a sweatsock over each bottle and soak it.
The evaporative cooling is really quite substantial, especially
if you periodically re-soak the sock.  Note, too, that the water
used to soak the sock need not be of drinkable quality, e.g. you
can dip your bottles in any roadside stream you pass by.

If you don't believe this works, try it!


			Dave Wagner
			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
			wagner@washington.arpa
			{ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!uw-beaver!uw-wally!wagner

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