On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 2:52:02 PM UTC-7, Radey Shouman wrote:
jbeattie writes:
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 7:51:31 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-03-20 17:48, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 4:44:59 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-03-20 15:54, sms wrote:
On 3/20/2018 3:18 PM, Joerg wrote:
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The question is, how do you know if a bottle is proper when buying one
online?
Stansport is primarly a camping equipment company. Buy from a supplier
of bicycle equipment.
But is sez "bike bottle" ...
https://www.stansport.com/bike-bottle-26-oz-214-26
I guess they need to learn and test their designs before release.
I like the Clean Designs bottle https://www.cleanbottle.com/
30 bucks, yikes. I like their bottom screw lid though. Thanks, will look
for that brand then.
Hmmmm. I wonder where you could buy a water bottle?
https://tinyurl.com/y9zbb7fg
I wrote that I have a source for fitting bottles, I could just buy more
from Cal Gear because they fit like a glove.
The reason for my post was to find out why there isn't a real standard..
Like there is for wheel diameters, tires (well, maybe with the exception
of some Contis). I guess nobody knows.
There is a standard -- 73mm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_cage
You bought a ****ty water bottle from an outdoor equipment company
that probably drew a bottle on the back of napkin, gave it to some OE
plastic bottle manufacturer in PRC and then marketed the results as a
bicycle water bottle. Its like complaining about Walmart bikes. I
wouldn't be surprised if the bottle is radioactive and full of
carcinogens.
Wikipedia is a standards body? I didn't see any reference to an
outside document.
I don't know if there is a standards body, but there is certainly a de facto standard -- same with mounting bolt spacing. That doesn't mean a manufacturer has to follow the de facto standard, but variations have usually been sold as bottle-cage combos or been advertised as being non-standard, e.g. cage for disposable plastic water bottles, etc.
-- Jay Beattie.