Dual bladder CamelBak

"Bo Lind" <bolind@spammeandyouretoast!.ostenfeld.dk> wrote in message
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Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water and

one

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with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that CamelBak is the
way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering students, the natural
conclusion would be to buy an additional bladder, fill one with water and
one with sports drink, and mount a drinking tube on each shoulder strap.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever done this?

Bo

http://www.trekbikes.com/accessories/product_detail.jsp?product_id=3063&category_id=125

But I've heard its pretty crappy 😉

On long rides, I take a 100oz bladder filled with water and a single bottle
filled with strong sports drink (from powder - I usually put in about 125%
what you're supposed to). Problem with sports drink in a bladder is that
the taste stays in there, as does the sugar - and evil growing stuff loves
that sugar.

Jon Bond

"Bo Lind" <bolind@spammeandyouretoast!.ostenfeld.dk> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water and

one

Quoted message said:

with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that CamelBak is the
way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering students, the natural
conclusion would be to buy an additional bladder, fill one with water and
one with sports drink, and mount a drinking tube on each shoulder strap.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever done this?

Bo

I've got a friend who tapes the gel-pack things to the top tube of his bike,
rambo style I suppose...
Anyway, he's then got that carb fix whenever he needs it, and knows how much
he's got left.

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"Bo Lind" <bolind@spammeandyouretoast!.ostenfeld.dk> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water and

one

Quoted message said:

with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that CamelBak is

the

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering students, the natural
conclusion would be to buy an additional bladder, fill one with water

and

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

one with sports drink, and mount a drinking tube on each shoulder strap.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever done this?

Bo

http://www.trekbikes.com/accessories/product_detail.jsp?product_id=3063&cate
gory_id=125

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But I've heard its pretty crappy 😉

Well first of all,they don't tell you the capacity of the thing...

Bo Lind said:

Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water and one
with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that CamelBak is the
way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering students, the natural
conclusion would be to buy an additional bladder, fill one with water and
one with sports drink, and mount a drinking tube on each shoulder strap.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever done this?

Bo

I used to. I had a Camelbak model (the Narrow Guage) that was designed
to allow this- it had two separate sleeves inside for bladders.
In practice, I found that it was too hard to keep the non-water bladder
clean over the long run. Now I do as described above and fill a bottle
with sports drink if I want any.

miles

AndyC said:

I've got a friend who tapes the gel-pack things to the top tube of his bike,
rambo style I suppose...

Rambo had a bike?

gabrielle, a bit confused this morning

PS - I'm with the "water in the bak, gatorade in a bottle" crew.

Jon Bond said:

On long rides, I take a 100oz bladder filled with water and a single
bottle filled with strong sports drink (from powder - I usually put
in about 125% what you're supposed to). Problem with sports drink in
a bladder is that the taste stays in there, as does the sugar - and
evil growing stuff loves that sugar.

Jon Bond

one thing that we've started doing on our really long "epic" rides is to
carry a backpacker's water filter. After AMB_ID, when we were right along
a river and running low, the light bulb went off.

penny

AndyC said:

"Bo Lind" <bolind@spammeandyouretoast!.ostenfeld.dk> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water
and one with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that
CamelBak is the way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering
students, the natural conclusion would be to buy an additional
bladder, fill one with water and one with sports drink, and mount a
drinking tube on each shoulder strap. Out of curiousity, has anyone
ever done this?

Bo

I've got a friend who tapes the gel-pack things to the top tube of
his bike, rambo style I suppose...
Anyway, he's then got that carb fix whenever he needs it, and knows
how much he's got left.

Around here we tape pancakes to our toptubes. Water in the Camelbak and
strawberry jam in a squeesy bottle.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........................
--
Perre

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Perre says:

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Around here we tape pancakes to our toptubes. Water in the Camelbak and
strawberry jam in a squeesy bottle.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........................

I always knew you Scandahoovians were strange. ;-)

Steve

Bo Lind <bolind@spammeandyouretoast!.ostenfeld.dk> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Hi,

My friend usually brings two bottles along on a ride; one with water and one
with sports drink. We've been trying to convince him that CamelBak is the
way to go, and being geeks as well as engineering students, the natural
conclusion would be to buy an additional bladder, fill one with water and
one with sports drink, and mount a drinking tube on each shoulder strap.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever done this?

Bo

I've taken two 100oz bladders on long rides before in my Camelbak HAWG
but not to drink out of at the same time. My only thought would be
that unless you secure the tubes well it would be a real annoying to
have TWO tubes flapping around on you.

Tom