Frosted or Clear Water bottle?

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Originally Posted by Crispyboi [IMG]/img/forum/go_quote.gif[/IMG]

Any major differences for example keeping your drink cold etc etc?

Don't use black water bottles.

Clear water bottles are easier to check to make sure that you've cleaned them well.

If you live somewhere hot, insulated water bottles are worth their weight in gold.

I live in Ireland so don't really have the heat issue, although it does peak to about 24 degrees in mid summer ha! But going back to what you just mentioned, when bottles are frosted does that mean they are insulated better?

But would you choose clear or frosted white?

A regular plastic bottle is just that. If you buy a dark coloured one then it'll probably warm up your drink a little faster in the summer sun. Frosted... clear... both would keep the drink at about the same temp I'd imagine. Clear would be easier to check to see if it's clean - so because of that I'd go for plain white. [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/ROTF.gif[/IMG]

I moved from North West England to Northern California where it's 35+C nearly every day from June to the end of Sept and 40C isn't exactly uncommon... Insulated bottles are a Godsend.

Sounds like a trick question. Like maybe they are going to sell them and are asking the question statistically. Clear, I'd prefer a clear one. I doubt a frosted one is going to keep it colder. I agree that the clear you can see if it is cleaned properly on the inside.

"Sounds like a trick question."

It was.

Congratulations.

You passed the test with flying colors.

"I doubt a frosted one is going to keep it colder."

OH [censored]! And you were doing so well!

Of course a frosted water bottle will keep the contents colder. Why do you think we frost our beer mugs? It keeps our beer even colder, longer.

Say...wait a minute! You ain't one of them thar Engrish dudes what be drinkin' that crappy warm swill, are ya?

I don't like cold drinks because where I live the weather is usually very cold. I like to keep water out of the fridge. I do carry one bottle whenever I go cycling. One 1litre bottle is usually enough to quench my thirst.

A non insulated bottle frost vs clear won't matter one small bit.

An insulated plastic bottle like the Polar will keep your drinks hot or cold at least 2 hours longer than just a plain bottle will. However a stainless bottle like the Elite Deboyo will keep drinks hot or cold for at least 6 hours. Problem with the stainless bottle is that you don't want to use these in any type of metal bottle cage because they'll constantly make noise of the metal hitting metal but in a plastic or carbon fiber cage you'll be fine.

I really don't see the difference whether it is frosted or not. Even if it is frosted I can clean it properly. Neither is insulated so they won't make a difference in keeping the water cold.

Zhen25 said:

I really don't see the difference whether it is frosted or not. Even if it is frosted I can clean it properly. Neither is insulated so they won't make a difference in keeping the water cold.

Then you have no experience with insulated bottles. I use to live in the Mojave Desert of Southern California for 14 years, a regular non insulated FROZEN SOLID bottle of drink would stay cold for about 45 minutes in 95F plus degree heat, in a insulated Polar bottle - up to 4 hours in the same heat. A standard cold drink with ice cubes would be hot in a standard bottle in less than an hour, in a Polar bottle it would still be cold before I drank it within the hour.

While I never used a stainless insulated bottle because they didn't have them for bikes back when I lived there in the desert, but those will stay cold for your entire trip even if were 100 degrees outside and you were out in it with the bottle for 4 hours. Those are rated to stay cold for up to 12 hours.

Edit my above comments, I was in a hurry this morning and had to remember more exactly. A standard non insulated bottle frozen solid will be cold for about an hour and get hot after about an hour and a quarter to an hour and half; with jammed packed ice cubes the drink would be cold for about 30 and be too hot after 45 min to an hour; both examples would be in 95F plus heat. The insulated bottle with a solid frozen drink would stay cold to drink for about 3 to 3.5 hours and be hot after about 4 to 4 1/4 hours; a jammed pack ice cube Polar bottle would remain cold for an 2 hours and get hot about 2.5 hours into the ride.

So since I use to ride about 3 to 4 hours in that heat I would carry 3 bottles, 2 of the empty bottles were placed in the freezer overnight along with a filled one so it could freeze solid, the next day just before heading out the door one was filled with a pre-chilled drink and about 1/4th ice, the second bottle was filled with as much ice as I could cram into it then filled with pre-chilled drink, and the last bottle simply mounted on the bike and off I went. I would drink the bottle with the 1/4th ice first then move to the bottle that I crammed ice into then move to the frozen bottle which by the time I got to the bottle it was like a slurpee and by the time I finished it the liquid was still ice cold. I usually finished my last bottle about 3 hours into the ride and by that time I would only be about 20 mins from home. On longer rides I took a 70 ounce CamelBak and simply filled it with ice along with the bottles but then I would use 2 solid frozen bottles, as the Camelbak would slowly melt I would sip the water off of the thawing ice, then the last formally frozen bottle would be drank from would occur around the 3.5 hour mark which would be cold sometimes just cool but I was heading back in by that time anyways so by the time the drink got too hot to drink I was home. The Camelbak for some reason seemed to stay cold for quite awhile and a slight effect of the cold ice could be felt on my back which was a tad refreshing.