Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!bbnccv!bbncc5!keesan From: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: The best hot weather riding tip Message-ID: <363@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:37:46 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.363 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:37:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:25:20 EDT References: <769@druak.UUCP> Reply-To: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <769@druak.UUCP> antics@druak.UUCP (Lisa Geiger) writes: > 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). A simpler solution is to buy a Cannondale water bottle. Standard size ice cubes easily fit through the wide mouth of the Cannondale, and you can fill it with whatever percentage of ice you want, rather than worrying about overfilling the bottle with water and having it crack when it freezes. -- Morris M. Keesan keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan