The Life of a Bidon

Bikerbhoy

Just wondering what the rest of yez do on the bidon front...... do you replace each season,keep for a couple of seasons or use til you loose or they fall assunder.

They start to look pretty crap after a season anyway dont they ?

Chips Lovell

I buy new ones every year or so, more or less when they start looking manky.

Quigs Snr

I usually hold onto them until they give me botulism.

No, I throw them all out every now and then. Just bought 10 new plain black ones to do for the winter and am about to throw out all of the disease ridden monstrosities which are acting as Bacteria farms in my basement (although my brother might take them, I think he uses a baby bottle cleaner thingy, one of those milton yokes, but I don't have the patience). I got plain ones this time because no logos to scratch off means that they look less scruffy for longer...

Captain Havoc

I lose or break them every six months or so.

ROK ON

If I buy a decent amount of stuff in a store, I ask them to throw in a bidon for free.
It has worked thus far.

blorg

Quigs- where did you get them?

I generally hang on to mine until they completely disintegrate, which to be honest is too long, I have been meaning to buy new ones for around a year now.

I have certainly had advanced civilisations developing in the bottom all right... Boiling water and washing up liquid seemed to get rid of them satisfactorily although I should probably be using something stronger...

ednwireland

i use milton sterilising fluid (about every 6 months) keeps em going for ever, at least you dont catch anything got new see through ones so they might get done more often (pbk offers 3 euro each filled with a gel and 3 high five isotonic tablets)

ROK ON

Honestly folks, just ask in your LBS.
Next time that you buy a load of tyres or something.
I wait till I drop say around 100notes. Then just ask them to throw that in.
No one has said no yet.
I have 8 or 9 bidons as a result.

IM0

ROK ON wrote: »

Honestly folks, just ask in your LBS.

what is this LBS you talk of?

[/sarcasm]

Quigs Snr

I boil them about once a week if they just contain water, if its anything else I boil them after each use. Blorg, I got the black plain ones (tacx I think) on chainreaction. About 4.80 apiece.

Borneo Fnctn

Bidon my arse. I call them water bottles. :cool:

The tax man

jackpalance wrote: »

Bidon my arse. I call them water bottles. :cool:

That makes two of us. It's a feckin' water bottle till the day I die.

CheGuedara

I usually change them every year or so - they're not that expensive and for the wear and use they get over the previous year it's nice to have new ones at the start of a cycling year.

Planet X

I occasionally use the one supplied to me by the Tour de France runner up 2009,



That is Andy isn't it?