
Originally Posted by
OakLeaf
I DO know someone who got very sick from drinking water from a frame-mounted water bottle. You do know that if you ride through water, whatever's in that water is now on the valve of your water bottle ... reclaimed water in the suburbs, dogsh*t and automotive chemicals in the city, cow and pig manure and ag chemicals in the country. But I still drink from my water bottle, and so does everyone else I know.
"Yecch...this tastes like crap!!!" All smart-azzery aside, that is a good point that I hadn't thought of. Maybe that's why they make some water bottles with the flip top cover over the valve.
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