BTTR Bottle - the water bottle with integrated storage

sheweym wrote:

Joking aside, I stumbled across this item yesterday, which might be an option for those above who desire a small bottle sans tools:

http://www.morvelo.com/covert-soft-flask.html

 

(I have no connection or affiliation with Morvelo, but they can send me free stuff and I'd be fine with that )

Collapsable bottles are handy as well, to top up at drinking water fountains. There are precious few of those around, but I know the locations of quite a few in London and you can't get a bidon under many of the good ones.

bikebot wrote:

This is crap.

In the unlikely event that someone thinks this is good, I may elaborate on that criticism.

[pulls up chair, opens biscuit tin] I think this is good [/pulls up chair,  opens biscuit tin] 

psling wrote:

bikebot wrote:

This is crap.

In the unlikely event that someone thinks this is good, I may elaborate on that criticism.

 

[pulls up chair, opens biscuit tin] I think this is good [/pulls up chair,  opens biscuit tin] 

For the moment, I'm just going to help myself to your biscuits and glare at you.

bikebot wrote:

This is crap.

In the unlikely event that someone thinks this is good, I may elaborate on that criticism.

I can see situations where the concept would work for me.

I do regular lunchtime rides, where I dont actually need to take water due to the rides typically being no more than an hour. I do need to take a few tools to make sure I can get back to my desk for the afternoon. Having a bit of water with me might be quite nice  though. At the moment I just carry tools/spares in a water bottle tool holder thingy and forego the fluid. Tools and water in one bottle cage. sounds good to me.

385ml of water would actually work for me on slightly longer rides as well. all good so far.

My weekend rides are rarely longer than 3 hours. two bottle cages with 750+385ml of fluid and a few tools. again that would work for me.

And all of the above without using a seat pack (yet to find the perfect one for me) or stashing tools in jersey pockets which I can keep for soft items like a waist coat or arm warmers. I hate heavy or bulky items in jersey pockets.

On an epic all day ride I would probably just take a larger seatpack and use two regualr bottles but almost certainly would plan the ride around a convinience store or pub to stock up on fluids anyway.

So it could work for many of my rides but my main concern is just how practical that space is actually going to be, will it rattle and will it be a right pain getting access to the contents. That we cant tell from pictures alone.

mduncombe wrote:

waist coat

Wait, what?

This is good for a commute bike that you leave locked up in less desirable places. But will no doubt be a ridiculous cost when it comes to the UK.

mduncombe wrote:

So it could work for many of my rides but my main concern is just how practical that space is actually going to be, will it rattle and will it be a right pain getting access to the contents. That we cant tell from pictures alone.

 

So I'll elaborate a bit, because your concerns are amongst the reasons I think it's crap.

I've bought a couple of tool bootles, and most have ended up annoying me.  They can rattle  and they don't actually store things that efficiently, because "things" have a habit of being awkward shapes.  I'll quote something else from the article.

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It’s big enough to carry such essentials as an inner tube, CO2 canister, tyre levers and other bits and bobs, obviously depending on the size of the tools you’re using. 

I bet you'd be lucky just to get one single extra bit in it, let alone any bobs. That also looks like a lightweight innertube above, in my experience a normal 25mm tube is often fiddly to get through the neck of a plastic tool bottle.

This is my current tool bottle, which you can pick up at PlanetX right now for just £5.

And the reason I like it, is that it's not actually a bottle. It's a zipped bag shaped like a bottle that opens along its length. Easy to organise the contents (I carry several bobs and bits), it has a bit of give when you're squeezing an extra item in, and it doesn't rattle.

If all you're going to carry are the bits shown above, stick 'em in your jersey or tape some straight to your frame. I think it's a product that solves a problem that doesn't really exist, and it isn't even an elegant solution.