how often do you change your cycling bidon
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Semar » Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:34 pm
I only use wide mouth ones that can be scrubbed.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:50 pm
Can't say I've ever noticed any gunge buildup either.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby PeterC » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:36 am
Yes exactly.I have kids....mine disapear all the time...occasionally they reappear in the lost property bin at school...
I've tried 2 of the bottles that are supposed to be food grade, from Torpedo 7. But both of them have lasted a couple of months and then split. The plastic is too brittle. I suppose that's what those nasty chemicals are supposed to do, make the plastic more pliable.
I've also heard, though don't know how true it is, that as the bottle heats up the chemical leach out of the plastic worse. So I try and make sure that mine don't sit in the car/sun too much and get hot for this reason.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby HappyHumber » Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:50 am
Beyond basic rinsing, I only recently managed to properly clean that bottle and it's younger siblings for the first time, using some sterilising denture soak tablets. Perhaps surprisingly enough, there was none of the primordial oozey gunk described around the nozzle as experienced by some. But I have never used energy drinks in them... just plain old H20
Oh and a tip for bladders out of camelbaks etc; rinse after use and remove as much water as possible from the tube & valves (Just blow 'em out with a lungful of air) and keep in the freezer between uses. I have one that looks as good as new after 4 years seasonal MTB use.
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Postby khendar » Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:39 pm
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby eeksll » Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:48 pm
true that cleans half of it, but what about the part beneath the blue valve part? But still better than the normal ones. I use the podium bottles. and uses a small bottle brush shoved straight into the valve. I also have enough of them to let them dry out quite often.roobab wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATl8ZPRp7g
I had a normal bottle i used for years, I accidently yanked off the rubber nozzle .... mmmmm brown gunk build up I went on a bit of a OCD episode and pulled them all off and cleaned them all with a toothbrush. Threw them out not long after.
For the paranoid you can get Milton tablets to sterilise the lids
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby HLC » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:27 pm
Never noticed scungy build up or anything. BUT like my camelbak bladder, I keep them in the freezer to stop the nasty stuff growing! Although this thread has got me scared and they are now soaking on boiling hot water/detergent lol!
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby PA » Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:21 pm
My Camelback bladders I always leave in freezer until the wife want's more space and takes them out.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Rex » Wed May 30, 2012 5:28 pm
Where do I find this stuff?Bentnose wrote:Found my 3 year old bottle was full of black mould, hadn't noticed it for a while. Bleach wouldn't remove, ended up using triple strength sodium percarbonate in hot water, it left my jug really clean as well. The bottle will last for years yet, just a matter of getting rid of the gunk.
My Camelback have black mould inside them and we can't remove it.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Leiothrix » Wed May 30, 2012 5:51 pm
Or failing that get some no name unscented napisan and rinse really well. The napisan has about 30% sodium percarbonate in it along with fillers, detergents and other things.
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Parrott » Wed May 30, 2012 9:23 pm
I reckon all you fastidious bottle sterilisers have a bit of Obsessive Cleaning Disorder going on there
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby kyap » Thu May 31, 2012 11:06 am
After finish riding, dilute Milton thingy with water in small container, chuck in the mouth piece bottle in there and let it soak. Next day rinse it before next ride = clean bottle!
Around $5 Coles for 1L. Use it for ages. Tummy ok so far
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby zozza » Thu May 31, 2012 10:41 pm
LOLWayfarer wrote:One tuesday afternoon, a bottle popped outta its cage and went straight down a gutter - perfect timing. Too deep to get it out. That weekend, my girlfriend figured out a way to get a fishing line around the middle of the bottle, and reel it out, so she stood watch for cars, and i fished it out. Funny thing was, the water inside of the camelbak podium still tasted like tap water - no plastic taste like those crappy free bottles you get. It's right next to me now, still all good mate. Only time i ever replaced one, i left powerade in it for about a month, and it started to grow mould inside it.
You drank the water?
It was down a drain for 5 days, not the healthiest of environments
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Postby hosko » Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:25 pm
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Wayfarer » Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:04 pm
It was all good mate, great way to test whether camelbak's really did have no taste Just don't invite me out for coffee though; i won't touch that devilish poison.zozza wrote:LOL
You drank the water?
It was down a drain for 5 days, not the healthiest of environments
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Re: how often do you change your cycling bidon
Postby Bentnose » Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:53 am
As Leiothrix said, any homebrew shop will have, I found it works best when it is still fizzy, desolves well in boiling water, though I wouldn't put boiling water in a camel back, I tried that once and the tube seperated from the bladder, just try the hottest tap water you can and sodium percarbonate. Maybe put the powder in the bladder first then the water and a good shake. Leave the end off the tube or your bladder might explode, SP expands exponentially. I couldn't get it to clean out my camelback tube and managed to find the tube brush I'd lost years ago, that got rid of all of the black mould in the tube.Rex wrote:Where do I find this stuff?Bentnose wrote:Found my 3 year old bottle was full of black mould, hadn't noticed it for a while. Bleach wouldn't remove, ended up using triple strength sodium percarbonate in hot water, it left my jug really clean as well. The bottle will last for years yet, just a matter of getting rid of the gunk.
My Camelback have black mould inside them and we can't remove it.
I wouldn't use Napisan though, it contains lots of other chemicals that aren't good for you and it doesn't rinse so well. Pure sodium percarbonate just needs a quick rinse.
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