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AG: Bottles
If I don't ride, I have nothing to say. If I do ride, I don't have time to write. My Sheriff Goshert bottle has been acting up lately -- the valve keeps closing itself, even when it's up-side down as I try to squirt a little water into a recently-emptied tea bottle. So a few days ago I stopped in the Trailhouse to look at bottles. They didn't have very many, and they all had the same lid. It has some sort of swirly double-ended lever at the base of the valve; in retrospect the swirl reminds me of bas-relief handle of the emergency feed on some paper-towel dispensers. The label said it was a lock to prevent -- I've forgotten what it prevents, but I do remember thinking that it was something that doesn't happen. No setting of the lever appeared to open or close the valve, and pushing and pulling on the tube above the lever, which looked very like the tooth-valve on a bottle I purchased a year or five ago, had no effect. In addition there was a deep dirt-trapping hole in the valve-homologue which appeared to lead straight to the contents. This is the hole that is filled with a round plug when an old-style bottle is closed. This led me to examine my bottles after leaving the store. The Sheriff Goshert bottle is flat on top when closed; if I got dirt on it, I could wipe it off with my thumb. The plunger of the bottle I bought a year or five ago has a shallow dimple on top, with a peak in the middle. I could still clean it with my thumb, but only if I'm wearing gloves. Today I went for an exercise ride. I was disappointed when I couldn't make it more than eighteen miles. (In the planning; I have yet to make Google measure the way I actually went. I kind of miss the knotted string I used to use; it was a lot quicker than feeding in all those waypoints.) But I think I get credit for twice that. At one point, while riding east on a straight road through fields, I had to use my lowest gear to ride down a hill. There were several mild hills that I walked. It was somewhat better when I turned south. And when I reached the westernmost point and started back, the wind dropped. I thought it was just because I was riding with it, but I didn't see the slightest motion in fine twigs and drooping dead leaves on the trees, and I did encounter a pretty good gust just before I turned west again after riding north for a mile or so. The northernmost point of the route was Goodwill on Anchorage Point Road. (Hey, I forgot to check the cutlery for brownie servers.) When touring the plastics aisle, I saw two red bike bottles with black lids advertising "Growing Kids Learning Centers", which I have never heard of. [DuckDuckGo] They are in Elkhart. Why would somebody in Elkhart shop in Warsaw? Having taken my bottles in with me in the hope of making them less cold, I was able to compare the Growing Kids bottles with the Sheriff Goshert bottle. Exactly the same height to the shoulder, exactly the same diameter. They looked smaller because they are of cheaper construction. I decided that if they were still there after I'd looked at the clothing, I'd buy them, but forgot about it until I was at Panda Express. After lunch, I rode and walked and rode back to Goodwill (the Meijer driveway is one-way for a very good reason, and its sidewalk ends in a parking lot), and went straight to the plastics aisle. Coming in from this direction I noticed a greeny-blue bottle obviously of the same manufacture. Despite being quite opaque, it is stenciled "Clear Object". Much to my surprise, searching on that common phrase proved fruitful. It's a company that appears to sell bafflegab vaguely connected to computers. I did not click on the link. My spouse, who never had a three-doctor incident and doesn't have cataracts or epiretinal membrane, was able to make out "garyline" in teeny-tiny embossed letters on the bottom. Garyline sells a lot of interesting (and very cheap, minimum order fifty) stuff. I didn't find any translucent bike bottles, but they jumble all their bottles onto one page, so I can't say they don't sell them. I did find the model Growing Kids and Clear Object bought. Anyhow, I'm bottled for the foreseeable future. I'll use the bottle brush vigorously before using the bottles. I usually just shake water in a bottle before filling it, but heaven knows where these bottles have been. Time for bed already? [checks clock] Yup. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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