camelback

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How do I get rid of the awful taste in my camelback hydration pack. I've tried baking soda and soap
and still water tastes like I am drinking out of a inner tube

Camelback makes a cleaner. I dont know how well it works. Hot water before the ride seems to have
always done the job for me.

toby said:

How do I get rid of the awful taste in my camelback hydration pack. I've tried baking soda and
soap and still water tastes like I am drinking out of a inner tube

This is a pretty common question. Search groups.google.com for more answers, but my suggestion:

Tequila.

That's right, rinse it with tequila, maybe even let it sit overnight. Just make sure there's none
left when you drink from it.

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Rick Onanian

toby said:

How do I get rid of the awful taste in my camelback hydration pack. I've tried baking soda and soap
and still water tastes like I am drinking out of a inner tube

Toby

There's pleny of stuff to be found using Google Groups advanced search
- <http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en>

Search-words such as after taste, aftertaste, camelback, bottle (I'm sure you can think of more)
will help. Also, IIRC, there have been quite a few threads over the years in the uk.rec.cycling NG.

Personally, I use baking soda but no soap. OK, I do use soap once in a while (IN THE BOTTLE!) but I
find the soapy aftertaste far harder to get rid of than anything else. Someone in ths NG mentioned
tequila a few days ago. I'm not sure that an hydration pack full of tequila would be a good idea -
or a cheap one, for that matter.

Regards James

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Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:30:10 +0100, <[email hidden]>, James Hodson

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Personally, I use baking soda but no soap. OK, I do use soap once in a while (IN THE BOTTLE!) but I
find the soapy aftertaste far harder to get rid of than anything else. Someone in ths NG mentioned
tequila a few days ago

French green clay will get rid of the perfume left by soaps.

Just a little bit in water cleaned out a sun-screen tube so I now have a honey flask with a flip-up
spout. (It holds a half cup of honey and fits neatly into a jersey pocket.)
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zk

Thanks for the info! I got suggestions from denture cleaner to Jack Daniels. One of them should work

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toby said:

How do I get rid of the awful taste in my camelback hydration pack. I've tried baking soda and
soap and still water tastes like I am

drinking

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out of a inner tube

Toby

There's pleny of stuff to be found using Google Groups advanced search
- <http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en>

Search-words such as after taste, aftertaste, camelback, bottle (I'm sure you can think of
more) will help. Also, IIRC, there have been quite a few threads over the years in the
uk.rec.cycling NG.

Personally, I use baking soda but no soap. OK, I do use soap once in a while (IN THE BOTTLE!) but
I find the soapy aftertaste far harder to get rid of than anything else. Someone in ths NG
mentioned tequila a few days ago. I'm not sure that an hydration pack full of tequila would be a
good idea - or a cheap one, for that matter.

Regards James

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I use vanilla essence.... gets rid of the taste, and doesn't taste unpleasant itself.....

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How do I get rid of the awful taste in my camelback hydration pack. I've tried baking soda and
soap and still water tastes like I am drinking out of a inner tube