CamelBak Better Bottles
I Love this Water Bottle…
I have owned and abused my CamelBak® .75 Liter Better Bottle™ for about three years now and just about everywhere I go with it (which is just about everywhere I go) I tell people that this is ‘one GREAT water bottle’. Know wonder CamelBak® calls it a Better Bottle™. It truly is just that, one better water bottle.
The .75 Liter non-BPA plastic bottle is really tough. I have dumped it off the roof any number of times (off the fender a time or two too). I take it everywhere and use it all the time (in fact, I’m drinking from it right now as I write this). The screw on lid they say is spill-proof and it is just that. And it really takes a beating too. The patented Flip, Bite-N-Sip bite valve (that would be the drinking spout) folds back down into the lid when you don’t need it (keeps the flies from trying to lip up your H2O) and that handy little spout pops off nice and easy for cleaning. It is also replaceable (available at the outdoor store where you bought the bottle). That big wide mouth makes it easy to fill and easy to clean with a bottle brush.
Easy to clean too.
The bottle itself is made of BPA-Free Tritan plastic (according to a video that can be viewed on the CamelBak® Better Bottle ™ website for the .75 Liter bottle).
One of the nice features about the CamelBak® Better Bottle ™ is the ability to connect an over the shoulder drinking tube and bite-valve to the Better Bottle ™ non-spill lid. You just pop off the bite-valve and attach the tube (available at your outdoor store in-store CamelBak® display). I will pop this tubing on my bottle, put the bottle into one of the pockets on my backpack and run the tube over my shoulder. This provides a nice dual use for the Better Bottle ™ when you don’t have a backpack for carrying a CamelBak® hydration bladder.
Camelbak Better Bottle rigged with drinking tube.
I also have a Stainless Better Bottle ™ but I would have to admit that I haven’t used it yet. It is not an insulated model [insulated Stainless Better Bottles ™ in a .5 Liter size are also available as are insulated Tritan plastic Better Bottles ™]. The insulated bottles are said to not only keep hot hot and cold cold but are also supposed to prevent the bottle from “sweating” and therefore keep your clothing, backpack or whatever you have touching your bottle from getting wet.
The only problem I have had with my .75 Liter Better Bottle ™ which is really not a problem but just a physical fact of nature to watch out for is being that the bottle is a ‘no-spill’ enclosed system, when the bottle sits in the sun or just warms up when coming in from the cold is when you pop up the bite-valve you can expect a squirt of water to come shooting out of the valve. Why is this you ask? Well, for you non-science types, when the air trapped inside at the top of the bottle above the water warms it expands thus increasing the pressure inside the bottle so when you pop up the bite-valve that increased pressure expands the only way it can which is by pushing the water out of the bottle, up through the straw and out the bite-valve. Kind of a fun trick to play on your friends in quirky sort of way…
Here are the links:
CamelBak® Better Bottles ™ – be sure to view the photos and especially the video located on this link.
CamelBak® Better Bottles ™ comes in about ten different colors with a SMRP of $14.00.
CamelBak® Better Bottles ™ are available for purchase online but don’t forget about your local outdoor store.
Tritan plastic is a BPA- Free “copolyester” plastic manufactured by Eastman Chemical Co. known by the Trade Name Tritan.
CamelBak® is a Registered Trademark of, well, CamelBak®.
Photo Credits: Jim Mau © 2011
Copyright: Trooper V6 © 2011
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