Fortunately for the roadside followers on the receiving finish of flying bidons, the professional peloton makes use of mercifully few metal water bottles. And whereas I tackle board what the nice of us at Biking Weekly are saying by recommending you turn from metal to plastic, they’re heavy, so I have been pondering… why cease there? What about titanium?
Fortuitously, a Black Friday deal at Camelbak has saved me from having to shell out £150 (plus delivery) on a pair of Camelbak Podium Titanium bottles. An analogous deal is on provide from REI for these within the States wishing to shell out a small fortune on water bottles too this Black Friday. Now I solely must pay £150 – a cut price, proper? Proper!?
I’ve had my reservations about switching to titanium bottles up to now, however it’s foolish when you think about I’ve made the swap elsewhere in life. I’ve traded in every of my heavy metal bikes for a customized Sturdy Fiadh, and have swapped my sun shades for a set of $400 POC Elicit Ti titanium sun shades. All reasonably priced upgrades I am certain you possibly can agree.
The fantastic thing about a metal bottle is admittedly the reassuring heft of the issues as you clunk them into your bottle cages (mine are titanium, by the way in which). However given a 700g weight addition from metal actually helps together with your dealing with by decreasing your centre of gravity, why on earth would you swap to titanium?
Properly, the rationale I am spending 100 and fifty entire kilos of my hard-earned biking journalist wage on two titanium water bottles comes right down to style.
The extra I exploit titanium cups and bottles in my day-to-day life, the extra I discover simply how steel-y issues style after I do not. It is like I am sipping my juice straight off a mechanic’s workbench. Water is not my favorite factor to drink anyway so something I can do to keep away from it tasting like a mouthful of cash the higher. Long run it is in all probability higher for the surroundings too, as titanium is best.
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*Okay, that is satirical, I do not truly suppose you need to fork out a tonne of cash on titanium bottles. Spending £75 / $75 on a single bottle is, in our collective opinion, wild.
The aforementioned Biking Weekly recommendation to modify to metal is okay, however in actuality the plastic bottles you’ve in your cabinet are additionally advantageous. They do not weigh a lot, and whereas plastic utilization is all the time good to scale back, persevering with to make use of those you’ve will keep away from unnecessarily sending your plastic bottles to landfill. Oh, and do not faux to be a WorldTour professional and yeet every bidon right into a hedge each time it is empty and you will be grand.
