A bottle or two of this:
Now there are a wopping 20oz of cold water in there, it would take three of them to top off your 3 large waterbottles you drained on the first part of the ride. So that's three containers of not as frequently recycled plastic, which lets be honest you aren't going to recycle unless there is a bin there at the store to put the empties in. God forbid you just ask if you can use the big gulp machine water button to refill your water bottles (many rural stores don't have the big gulp soda dispensers so that isn't always an option). So generally that's going to set you back a couple bucks, maybe $3.75 or so if they are each $1.25. Should be plenty to get you home and since all you have in there is a $20 then you've got plenty of cash to buy something salty and sweet like a king size Payday bar to get you home without cramping from drinking all that damn unsalted water in the heat of the afternoon.
Or
Do you buy one of these:
Which, yes is way more water than you can fit in your three bottles. But not that much more. Maybe you want to wash some of that salt off your face, dump a bit on your head to cool off? Or share the rest with your riding buddy who went for the Coke instead of the water? So it sets you back somewhere from $0.99 to $2 for the gallon, plenty of cash left over to get a snickers bar and a payday, or if you are feeling like a super hippie or a flahute maybe you go with one of those bananas hanging on that funny rack. You come out with calories and water.
I'm not leaving the options really unbiased I guess.
Not really my style.
What am I drinking today? Water. I filled up my team Waterbottle with some water from the drinking fountain. Tastes like water. Pretty refreshing.
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What kind of moron buys small bottles of water while out on a ride? I have never seen this behavior.
i have seen it - more frequently than not.
usually I buy a Coke and a King Sized bag of Skittles. If I'm alone and out of fluids completely I will buy the quart of water, fill one bottle, fill part of the other bottle, and top it off with Coke. Who carries three bottles?
I dig your point though. On our south county weekend group rides, someone always buys a gallon (or two) and offers it up to everyone.
What Colin said.
I think next time I'll just sneak into a church and steal the holy water. Or just have Willi piss in my bottles. Same thing right?
What's a drinking fountain? That thing on Benefit St.?
Sorry Bruce,
I should have used "Bubbler" instead of drinking fountain so as not to confuse the Rhode Islanders.
There's a church in Maine with kick ass water (outside faucet) that i stop and fill bottles from when I'm riding with just one bottle and need more.
And if you go inside, Father Ramrod will show you his bubbler.
funny, i never bring bottles on a ride. i gotta work on that.
i wont buy water. my wife does and i yell at her for it. my well is a natural artesian spring, and its FREE. WTF. I even offered to fill bottles for her. In her defense, she is cutting way back and normally bring a bottle from home to work now.
I meanwhile utilize my lovely new schnapps bottle. that thing kicks ass.
and seriously, who drinks 3 LARGE bottles and then refills them, for 6 LARGE bottles on a ride? Ted King maybe. You need to dial back on the arguments a little so your positions are more defensible. Just in general.
Your welcome,
Dillhole
I'll buy anything with 'tulpehocken' written on it.
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