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| Polar Insulated Water Bottle | 
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| Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Buy New: $7.49 (On sale from $7.79) - $45.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  (55 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7
Media: Sports
ASIN: B000F7Z0KI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Double-wall construction: a thermal barrier of air keeps heat out and cold in. | | • | Polar Bottles do not contain Bisphenol-A (BP-A), a potentially toxic compound. | | • | Fits standard bicycle water bottle cages | | • | Wide mouth allows ice cubes easily into the bottle and makes cleaning easy. | | • | Dishwasher and freezer safe. |
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Product Description
Double-wall construction with insulating thermal layer keeps solar heat outside and polar temperatures inside. Wide mouth opening for easy filling. Soft rubber bite valve for comfortable hydration on the fly. Fits standard bicycle cages.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 50 more reviews...
 Insulated water bottle July 22, 2008
No, this doesn't keep water cold at all. My water stays colder in a regular un-insulated bottle. I ended up purchasing from Green Mountain Coffe, an insulated thermos where you push a button to open lid and it's great.
 Mixed Emotions July 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought two of these to replace the typical BPA leaching plastic water bottles available. While I appreciate their size and insulating properties, I find they still produce a plastic taste in the water if left inside for a day or two. Non-BPA, or not, I'm disappointed in the aftertaste. I'll be getting Klean Kanteen stainless steel water bottles to replace them.
Disappointed July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the 24 oz. bottle. I am disappointed that it does sweat a lot and leaves a puddle on my desk. Also, I filled it completely with ice, then with cold water, and even in an air conditioned office, the water was warm after 4 hours. I expected it to last longer. Last night I filled the bottle half/way and put in the freezer, then filled with cold water this morning and at noon I still have cool water. I do like the wide mouth which makes it easy to put ice in. I will keep looking for the perfect water bottle!
 The only real problem is fit. They almost work too well. July 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Normally, thermal bottles are too hard to squeeze to get fluid out of them, and they don't insulate very well at all. These are the first I've tried that actually worked, and they're just as squeezable as regular water bottles.
PROS and TESTIMONIAL: First time using these I froze them both, put them on the bike, went riding out in the heat of summer, and couldn't get a drop out of them because they remained frozen hard as bowling balls the more than two hours of that particular ride out on the open road. I finally had to open one and drink at least the one sip's worth of fluid that had melted. This was an absolute first. I've used other thermal water bottles over the years, but I tossed them all pretty quickly. None of them worked until these.
Second ride I refrigerated them and put ice cubes in before heading out. The ice melted but the contents remained fairly cool for hours or riding, again in the heat of summer.
Third time I came up with a brilliant idea. I filled them halfway and stuck them in the freezer, then filled them the rest of the way with refrigerated fluid just before heading out. This worked the best of the options I've tried so far.
One rider in my riding club had a great idea--freeze one bottle and fill the other one with fluid and ice. He says by the time he's ready for that second bottle it's melted enough that he can drink out of it. I go through two bottles in under three hours in the summertime, so I'm not sure this will work for me, but I plan to try it out on the next long ride.
In any case, they are absolutely freezer safe. Go ahead, fill them and freeze them, then see how long it takes before you can drink out of them.
FLAVOR: I've had absolutely no problem with the bottle affecting the flavor of the fluids I put in my bottles. Some have complained about this, but it seems more likely that they didn't thoroughly wash the bottles before use. There maybe some shipping wax in there, or just some residue from the manufacturing process. Just two drops of dish soap; any more will have your fluids tasting soapy for several rides; wash out those bottles good even before the first use, and you wont have a problem.
CON--a techical problem and recommendation: Before you order two of these bottles, make sure they will actually fit on your bike. One on the downtube definitely will, but you might have to go with one of the smaller ones for the upright cage mounted on your seat tube because it wont fit under the top tube. Mine just barely clears the top tube when inserted in the upright cage on my 54cm Trek frame; if my frame were only 2cm smaller, I imagine it might not fit.
I've seen several riders with a 24oz on the downtube and a smaller one on the upright, but the only problem there is grabbing and reinserting the bottle in the upright cage while riding. Personally, I used up the one on the downtube and them switch them.
In any case, if you have even the slightest doubt about that second bottle fitting, buy one, see if it fits, and if it does then order a second one.
BOTTOM LINE: If they were normal water bottles I would buy them just for the size. Having 48oz of water on you without having to wear a Camelbak is nice.
The fact that the thermal technology works in this make and model is just miraculous, as I've tried several thermal bottles before and none of them seemed to do a damn thing to keep cold liquids cold and hot liquids hot--in the winter.
And lastly, every other thermal bottle I've tried was difficult to impossible to squeeze one handed while riding, so they were too inconvenient to be useful on a bike ride. Especially on a road ride near a major city, it's tough to get those precious seconds for a quick drink, so it really needs to work--and these do.
polar insulated water bottle July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not find this product to be very good. The bottle sweated a lot, and it did not keep the water cold for very long; not even in an air conditioned house.
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