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Think I have found the worlds best drinking bottle.
I have had it and been using it for 3 years,
It has been dropped off crags,
driven over in my car and generally abused and is still going strong.

It is..... wait for it.... the bottle from Tesco's fizzy flavoured water (approx 50p litre).

Yep, none of yer fancy expensive outdoor labels, just pure unadultarated blue plastic..... they're great.

Anyone else come across an everyday item that seems to serve better than a purpose built overpriced 'bit of gear'

In reply to mwerner:

do you have a Blue Peter badge ?

In reply to mwerner:
MM, I agree. I was going to reply to the thread title by saying that the best bottle is the 'free' one that comes with the water.

Sxx

In reply to martin riddell:
Nah, always wanted one though

In reply to Sarah G:

Can`t beat Nalgene bottles, bombproof!

In reply to humo:

..and good for sqeezing small rabbits into .... apparently

In reply to mwerner:

I take it you re-use the same bottle, filling it from a tap?

In reply to CJD:
err,.... yes

In reply to mwerner:

An Al Ain 1.5 litre water bottle (free with water) fits nicely in my old Lowe Alpine insulated bottle carrier. They also sits vertically in my Gott coolbox.

In the UK, Highland Spring bottles are the same size!

When filled with isotonic, and frozen, it provides sufficient fluid for a 3 hour route in the desert in the middle of summer with temps approaching the 50c mark!

In reply to mwerner:

just checking

I don't understand the people who buy a new bottle of water every day.

In reply to CJD:
Me neither, reckon most of it originates from the tap anyway.

In reply to mwerner:

superb. i thought i was going to have to come over all iconoclastic, but you and i are of one mind. i seem to recall that Just a Bhoy and i debated the merits of tonic water bottles vs lemonade water bottles a couple of years back.

i am a tonic man.

In reply to JJJJ:
The bottle I am refering to is quite specific and seems to have a slight edge on any others I have used.
It has to be Tesco's flavoured fizzy water (cherry + peach, apple and blackcurrent and all that bo**ocks) and it has to be the blue plastic variety.

In reply to mwerner:

blue plastic is it? la-di-da, ordinary plain plastic not good enough for you?

bloody gear freak.

In reply to JJJJ:
ha ha,... touche :¬)

In reply to CJD:

If their tap water tastes anything like the water here in Galway I can understand it... So bad it prompted me to buy a filter jug for home just to make it bearable...

Plastic water bottles are great - I recycle them for months. It's also much cheaper if you happen to drop them on a multipitch - and a bit softer than your average Sigg for anyone unfortunate enough to be below you at the time...

In reply to betamonkey:

loth as i am to accept that expensive water bottles have any advantage over cheap ones, i wish they'd make a lemonade bottle with a top you can put a karabiner through.

In reply to mwerner:

Old style lucozade ones with the wide top - easy to get ice cubes into.

In reply to JJJJ:

Tape a loop of tat to the bottle, clip the tat.

In reply to CJD:

I wonder if anyone has worked out the full environmental impact of doing this instead of drinking tap water. Apart from the energy costs in producing + disposing of all the bottles, there's transporting the stuff half way across Europe...

That said, I think the 2-year old one that's on my desk at the moment could do with replacing. It's got algae growing around the top half and some kind of greyish scum growing on the bottom, which occasionally flakes off and floats about in a rather offputting manner. Doesn't seem to affect the flavour though.

In reply to chris tan XLIX:

i kot a loop to the bottle so it catches under the lip, but it doesn't feel as secure as a sigg-type top.

In reply to JJJJ:
no i knot not kot