Nashbar water bottle -- yuck

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:55:25 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, "M Powell"

Quoted message said:

Sigh. It's a little thing, but important to me. And I'm so surprised that
Nashbar doesn't "get" it.....

Leave it open.

It won't leak until you pick up the bike to climb some stairs or put
it back in the car.
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zk

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:55:25 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, "M Powell"

Quoted message said:

Sigh. It's a little thing, but important to me. And I'm so surprised that
Nashbar doesn't "get" it.....

Leave it open.

It won't leak until you pick up the bike to climb some stairs or put
it back in the car.
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He's probably got one of those bottles made by Tacx that you have
to rotate the spout nipple a 1/4 of a turn to unlock it.

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:43:55 GMT, <LHJ7d.591806$gE.36666@pd7tw3no>,
The Pro's pro "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> elucidated:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Sigh. It's a little thing, but important to me. And I'm so surprised that
Nashbar doesn't "get" it.....

Leave it open.

It won't leak until you pick up the bike to climb some stairs or put
it back in the car.

He's probably got one of those bottles made by Tacx that you have
to rotate the spout nipple a 1/4 of a turn to unlock it.

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

It's all these newbies who grew up wearing those bladder bag things
that expect this sport to be as easy for them as it is for you.

I''ve been using a Zefal 800 alu bottle for a while now. Holds a whole
bottle of wine with no aftertaste. It's outlasted two bottle cages.
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zk

Quoted message said:

I''ve been using a Zefal 800 alu bottle for a while now. Holds a whole
bottle of wine with no aftertaste. It's outlasted two bottle cages.

Where are you getting your bottle cages, Wal-Mart?

Serious cyclists use cheap but durable steel bottle cages, and you
NEVER want to put wine into an aluminium bottle.

My God, man, what were you thinking.

If you must carry wine, carry it in its original bottle, in your
damn panniers, as God intended.

I am very disappointed in you, Zoot, carrying wine in aluminium
bottles, that is to put it mildly very gauche.

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Sun, 03 Oct 2004 01:32:31 -0400, <[email hidden]>, "Eric

S. Sande said:

Quoted message said:

I''ve been using a Zefal 800 alu bottle for a while now. Holds a whole
bottle of wine with no aftertaste. It's outlasted two bottle cages.

Where are you getting your bottle cages, Wal-Mart?

Serious cyclists use cheap but durable steel bottle cages, and you
NEVER want to put wine into an aluminium bottle.

I had steel and alloy one-piece cages. Both of them broke at the weld.
The coating inside the bottle didn't stain or impart any flavour then
or afterward. The contents are never in contact with metal.

Quoted message said:

My God, man, what were you thinking.

It was necessary to keep things discrete where a broken bottle would
have been a bummer.

Quoted message said:

If you must carry wine, carry it in its original bottle, in your
damn panniers, as God intended.

That's where I generally carry bottles for consumption off the bike.
There's always a cork screw in the seat bag along with the tire levers
and chain tool.

Quoted message said:

I am very disappointed in you, Zoot, carrying wine in aluminium
bottles, that is to put it mildly very gauche.

It was an experiment of surprising success. It's not my regular MO but
it's almost that time of year again.
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zk

"Eric S. Sande" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Serious cyclists use cheap but durable steel bottle cages, and you
NEVER want to put wine into an aluminium bottle.

My God, man, what were you thinking.

If you must carry wine, carry it in its original bottle, in your
damn panniers, as God intended.

I am very disappointed in you, Zoot, carrying wine in aluminium
bottles, that is to put it mildly very gauche.

Aluminum is suitable for spray paint and roach killer.
http://www.jgwhyte.com/botabag.htm You guys must not have been around in
the 60's.

Cheto

"Cheto" wrote: http://www.jgwhyte.com/botabag.htm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My bota bag, left over from my motorcycling days, works really well, but I
am having trouble fitting it into the bottle cage. Can anyone offer advice?

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

Why does that not suprise me.

Quoted message said:

Subject: Re: Nashbar water bottle -- yuck
From: Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spamshaw.ca
Date: 10/3/2004 7:53 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <[email hidden]>

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:LHJ7d.591806$gE.36666@pd7tw3no:

Quoted message said:

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

Why does that not suprise me.

"Hello, how do I operate your water bottle?"

In article <[email hidden]>,

Eric S. Sande said:

Serious cyclists use cheap but durable steel bottle cages,

I usually put my water bottles in the near right-hand corner
of the milk crate, within easy back-handed reach. DT cages
just get in my way.

Quoted message said:

and you
NEVER want to put wine into an aluminium bottle.

Well, it's often preferable to avoid decanting wine
from one container to another for transport.

But some of the more robust, edgy stuff, like grappa
or that home-brewed Portuguese porch-climber, /likes/
to be treated a little non-abusively, playfully roughly.

I like robust, edgy women, too.

cheers,
Tom

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"Mike Latondresse" <mikelat@no_spamshaw.ca> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:LHJ7d.591806$gE.36666@pd7tw3no:

Quoted message said:

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

Why does that not suprise me.

Hey come on, back then anyone directly making the leap from
using the French T.A. and Italian ATOX bottles to something
like the Tacx bottle had a very steep learning curve to deal with.

By the way, if your doing retro, then you must ride with ATOX
bottles.

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(Fx199) said:

Quoted message said:

Subject: Re: Nashbar water bottle -- yuck
From: Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spamshaw.ca
Date: 10/3/2004 7:53 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <[email hidden]>

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:LHJ7d.591806$gE.36666@pd7tw3no:

Quoted message said:

When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
our teeth before we clued in.

Why does that not suprise me.

Quoted message said:

"Hello, how do I operate your water bottle?"

Oh, haha, Fabrizio's little joke is very amusing. But a kind poster to
this newsgroup (Hi Claire!) gave me a nice Rabobank-colours Tacx water
bottle as a gift, the first bottle I had encountered with a locking top.

It took me some time to figure out how to open it. I nearly did wreck
the top before I opened it up and took a look at the mechanism from
below.

Always a step behind Fabrizio,
--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:14:08 -0700, Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

It took me some time to figure out how to open it. I nearly did wreck
the top before I opened it up and took a look at the mechanism from
below.

Always a step behind Fabrizio,

That's understandable. Very few people are as experienced as Fabrizio
at looking at things from below.

"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Oh, haha, Fabrizio's little joke is very amusing. But a kind poster to
this newsgroup (Hi Claire!) gave me a nice Rabobank-colours Tacx water
bottle as a gift, the first bottle I had encountered with a locking top.

It took me some time to figure out how to open it. I nearly did wreck
the top before I opened it up and took a look at the mechanism from
below.

Since I did nearly wreck your bike, it seems like a fair trade, don't you
think?

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Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:14:08 -0700,
<[email hidden]>,

Ryan Cousineau said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> When they first came out we were ripping them completely off with
> our teeth before we clued in.
>
Why does that not suprise me.

Quoted message said:

"Hello, how do I operate your water bottle?"

Oh, haha, Fabrizio's little joke is very amusing. But a kind poster to
this newsgroup (Hi Claire!) gave me a nice Rabobank-colours Tacx water
bottle as a gift, the first bottle I had encountered with a locking top.

It took me some time to figure out how to open it. I nearly did wreck
the top before I opened it up and took a look at the mechanism from
below.

Always a step behind Fabrizio,

That's how I ended up with the Zefal bottle.

I couldn't open the new plastc bottles I'd bought.
So I took 'em back to the LBS.
After the blonde at the bike shop finally managed to get them opened,
she suggested that I just leave 'em that way.

After reading your message I tried 'em again. You're right! They do
work like that. Thanks! I thought Fabrizio was pulling my leg.

I guess he's not so dumb after all, eh.
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zk

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Oh, haha, Fabrizio's little joke is very amusing. But a kind poster to
this newsgroup (Hi Claire!) gave me a nice Rabobank-colours Tacx water
bottle as a gift, the first bottle I had encountered with a locking top.

It took me some time to figure out how to open it. I nearly did wreck
the top before I opened it up and took a look at the mechanism from
below.

Since I did nearly wreck your bike, it seems like a fair trade, don't you
think?

Hey, I still really like that water bottle. Bike still works too!

Don't lend what you can't mend,
--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.

"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Always a step behind Fabrizio,

That's due to you guys growing up in a desolate wasteland
as far as pro road cycling goes. Now young guys like me
are very fortunate to have old farts like Moser, Saronni, and
Baronchelli around to use as mentors.