{"id":3382,"date":"2011-04-16T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T01:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2011-04-16T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T03:41:53","slug":"camelbak-bottle-cleanliness-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/camelbak-bottle-cleanliness-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"CamelBak Bottle Cleanliness Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_6064.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96911-2\/IMG_6064.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Black residue \/ mildew on the inside of the burst valve in a CamelBak Bottle.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The biggest design failure of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelbak.com\/Sports-Recreation\/Bottles.aspx\">CamelBak Bottles<\/a> for cycling (the Sport line) is the difficulty of cleaning the burst valve in the cap. The above photo shows the black mold \/ mildew that I found after removing the mouthpiece and plastic retaining ring which holds the burst valve in place. This portion of the assembly can only be flushed and can&#8217;t be mechanically cleaned without this (slightly difficult, and not designed into the bottle&#8217;s use) disassembly.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the burst valve (seen on the right) is made of a rich blue color rubber (seen around the edges) and the inside of the valve assembly (seen on the left) should be a solid silver color. I was able to clean this with a toothbrush and some soap, but it surely won&#8217;t be long before this has to be done again.<\/p>\n<p>Even after this I&#8217;ll continue to use some of these bottles, but I definitely won&#8217;t buy any. (I happened to get this one and an insulated one for free. They are nice, but at ~$10\/ea and with this cleaning difficulty I don&#8217;t think they are worth buying.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest design failure of CamelBak Bottles for cycling (the Sport line) is the difficulty of cleaning the burst valve in the cap. The above&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/camelbak-bottle-cleanliness-issues\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CamelBak Bottle Cleanliness Issues<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}