Plastic or Metal Water Bottles, where do you stand?

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Permalink Reply by Legacy Frameworks on July 30, 2012 at 2:31pm

Thanks for the input everyone. I find myself leaning toward plastic for now.  I currently have a camelback podium chill, like Liz, that was actually a giveaway, and I like the thought put behind the design, but personally have yet to seen the advantage to the insulation. And of course everyone likes free, and maybe down the road I can swing that.

Mainly I don't want to put anything out there that would end up sitting in the back of my cupboard in a few weeks. The water bottle I linked to, and would be using, has a germ/stain/odor resistant lining and a squeeze/squirt  lid for ease of use. It is not insulated, but is about half the cost. 

I have kept the cost down on my bikes by remaining very small and independent, and there is no reason my merchandise will be different. I also like things made domestically.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on July 30, 2012 at 5:54pm

Heavier metal bottles seem to bounce/wiggle out of my close-to-horizontal cage too easily. I do not care about temperature. Nor a plastic taste, because I drink Gatorade. I use the 24 oz. twist-top Gatorade bottles using made-from-powder Gatorade.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Bullis 5.5-6.5 miles on July 30, 2012 at 8:39pm

Although I have about a hundred plastic bottles,(rides, sponsors, couldn't find a bottle and bought another one) the Kleen Kanteen is my first choice. The plastic ones still get used but that's usually when the metal ones are in the dish washer or on a bike buried under 5 or 6 other bikes.

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Permalink Reply by ilter on July 30, 2012 at 9:03pm

I prefer metal mainly because I don`t think plastic is healthy, especially w/ hot drinks in winter.

Here is a setup that works well for me:

- wide mouth insulated metal bottle w/ a cap similar to travel (coffee) mugs, easy to open, feels like drinking from a glass

- bigger insulated metal bottle w/ tight cap. I use this for storage & refill the smaller one w/ this

- king iris cage to keep bottles secure & quiet

Finally, the last metal bottle I got is a hydroFlask brand & is made in USA.

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Permalink Reply by ilter on July 30, 2012 at 9:28pm

I was wrong, they are made in China.  Was it the paper packaging that was "Made in USA" or is my brain failing me !?

ilter said:

Finally, the last metal bottle I got is a hydroFlask brand & is made in USA.

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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on August 3, 2012 at 10:40am

Free for me.  I've never paid for a plastic bottle.  My bike shop gives me one when I have something done there.  Swag at Bike The Drive and Bike To Work Week provides me an endless supply of free.

 

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on August 3, 2012 at 10:44am

+1

My wife picked up a water bottle this year at a B2W checkpoint and I was a little annoyed by the fact that we are really running out of room for them in storage.  We already have too many and we didn't really want/need one more but she had forgotten hers that morning and needed one.  

Then again she couldn't use it anyway to drink out of that morning because it hadn't been rinsed out and the water she put into it tasted pretty foul.

in it to win it said:

Free for me.  I've never paid for a plastic bottle.  My bike shop gives me one when I have something done there.  Swag at Bike The Drive and Bike To Work Week provides me an endless supply of free.

 

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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on August 3, 2012 at 3:27pm

My wife made me put some in storage...

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