User requirements for a cycling water bottle

An important factor for professional riders is that the lid pops off and the bottle flattens when ridden over.  This is why the peleton tends to use bottles with push on lids rather than screw on lids.  The thinking is that it reduces accidents in the lead up to sprint finishes when the riders jettison their bottles, riding over a bottle with a screw on lid that doesn't deform could cause an accident.

Quite a few amateue riders use these bottles just because the professionals do...........

youngmanonfire, with your ability to produce crap online surveys, you have a bright future as a product manager in Specialized's shoe division.

I'd pay more if I could disassemble the mouthpiece to get it really clean. Some of my bottles are labelled not to do this; the rest are blank. I don't want to destroy one in trying it.

Thats for a masters? Jeez.  My 9 year old class would ask better questions. 

A couple of questions on sustainability. May or may not have relevance but surely thats a universal almost given nowadays.

Rest are ridiculous as current bike bottles do all of that so could be assumed as a given. 

OP. Go to a bike shop. Buy a cycling water bottle . Copy it. 

I can get a polyethelene bottle for $5 or abour 4 GBP.  I normally carry a stainless bottle that cost about $15 ( 11 GBP).  I can open the valve with one hand.  It keeps my tea hot longer.  It doesn't make it taste funky. It doesn't leak.  And... it fits in a standard bottle cage!!!

Important features:

If it doesn't fit in a standard cage it isn't a bicycle water bottle. 

1) One hand operation.

2) No funky taste.

3) OK with hot liquids.

4) Reasonable cost.

5) No leaks.

One question not asked, and given the obviousness of some of the others would seem to be an oversight, is how secure the bottle must be in a standard bottle cage or whether the buyer would be happier with a bottle specific securing mechanism.

Yeah, well, leakage. It's not a yes/no thing. Water bottles don't leak in a bottle cage, the right way up, sure. Some do leak a bit the wrong way up, maybe haphazardly placed in a rucksack on the way to a ride. Others can be made to leak because their spouts open at the least provocation, again whilst packed in a bag.

I like a water bottle that I can chuck in a bag without fear that it will leak. Just because it never leaks in use in a bottle cage does not mean it won't leak upside down squashed and jostled in a bag.

Ditto, I think it should be a given that a water bottle is not made of toxic materials that leach into the contents, does not leak and does not impart an odor or taste to the contents. 

No point in asking about this, if any of those elements are not satisfied the product is an instant fail and I wouldn't want it even if it were offered for free.   An engineering student asking about the importance of a non-leaking bottle...f*ck me, everything's gone to the dogs 

wothesaid

Can we have prices in GBP.

I've filled that in now.

Some of the questions seem a bit pointless to me - why would anyone want a water bottle that transferred smell/chemicals etc into the contents? Similarly, no-one wants a leaking bottle - why even bother asking those kinds of questions?