Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!wagner From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: The best hot weather riding tip Message-ID: <162@uw-june> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:50:19 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.162 Posted: Tue Aug 13 14:50:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:41:24 EDT References: <769@druak.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 31 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 "The surest thing there is is we are riders, And though none too successful at it, guiders, Through everything presented, land and tide And now the very air, of what we ride." - Frost