September 12th, 2024 | by Keaton Smith
I remember the last time I used a plastic bottle pretty vividly. It was long before I started working at Bivo, and I was driving to Boston from Vermont for a long weekend. With a few hours in the car ahead of me, I made sure to pack enough water for the drive. I filled up my plastic bottle at the time and set off on the road.
I didn’t always notice the taste of plastic in that bottle, but, for some reason, the taste that day was especially horrific. Bitter, acidic, it tasted like pure chemicals. I got a headache in a matter of minutes. That was kind of the last straw for me. On and off, that bottle had been tasting bad, but that day, it ruined the rest of my drive.
From then on, I exclusively used my metal bottles (this was before I learned about Bivos!), but my wide-mouthed metal bottles were hard to drink out of while hiking, leaked at the office, and were dented up from years of accidentally sending them cascading across concrete sidewalks and pavements.
My friend got me my first Bivo as a gift that year. Plastic bottles a relic of my past, a new metal bottle was so exciting, because my old one was dented to high hell. I was looking forward to using my Bivo for cycling, but, without a good bottle to use in other contexts, it became my go-to bottle for everything. Work, the gym, hiking, and backcountry skiing. Quickly, I discovered it was the best running water bottle I had tried, too.
When I began working at Bivo, I quickly learned this was normal. I learned 95% of Bivo customers use their bottles outside of cycling. So, today, I wanted to compile a few of my favorite photos and stories of Bivo users staying hydrated in contexts other than cycling.
I remember the last time I used a plastic bottle pretty vividly. It was long before I started working at Bivo, and I was driving to Boston from Vermont for a long weekend. With a few hours in the car ahead of me, I made sure to pack enough water for the drive. I filled up my plastic bottle at the time and set off on the road.
I didn’t always notice the taste of plastic in that bottle, but, for some reason, the taste that day was especially horrific. Bitter, acidic, it tasted like pure chemicals. I got a headache in a matter of minutes. That was kind of the last straw for me. On and off, that bottle had been tasting bad, but that day, it ruined the rest of my drive.
From then on, I exclusively used my metal bottles (this was before I learned about Bivos!), but my wide-mouthed metal bottles were hard to drink out of while hiking, leaked at the office, and were dented up from years of accidentally sending them cascading across concrete sidewalks and pavements.
My friend got me my first Bivo as a gift that year. Plastic bottles a relic of my past, a new metal bottle was so exciting, because my old one was dented to high hell. I was looking forward to using my Bivo for cycling, but, without a good bottle to use in other contexts, it became my go-to bottle for everything. Work, the gym, hiking, and backcountry skiing. Quickly, I discovered it was the best running water bottle I had tried, too.
When I began working at Bivo, I quickly learned this was normal. I learned 95% of Bivo customers use their bottles outside of cycling. So, today, I wanted to compile a few of my favorite photos and stories of Bivo users staying hydrated in contexts other than cycling.
If you have any creative non-cycling uses for your bottles, let us know at thirsty@drinkbivo.com or in the comments!
If you have any creative non-cycling uses for your bottles, let us know at thirsty@drinkbivo.com or in the comments!
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