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| Sigg 1.5 Litre Drinking Bottle |
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 Average Rating: 5 out of 5 No. of Reviews: 3 RRP: £10.99 Year: 2005 Description: - One piece aluminium, combining strength with light weight
- Hygienic lining which prevents odours and contamination
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|  | | Posted: 24/03/06 | | 'CLASSIC AND ICONIC - BUT HOW DO YOU TREAT YOURS?' | | Strengths:
Does exactly what you'd expect of a 1.5 litre water bottle. It holds 1.5 litres of water, and doesn't let it out until you want it to come out, when it tastes like it did when you put it in. | | Weaknesses:
If you're the kind of lazy minded outdoor person who just leaves their sack in the boot of their car or under the stairs until you need to use it again, without having emptied your sigg bottle first, you may find that you get balck fungus around the bottle seal. If you're the kind of mountaineer who is most active online these days (I know, you've got a busy schedule and your PA hasn't pencilled in a few days R and R for, ooh, must be a couple of months now...or is it longer? Really? *That* long? Gosh) then as the months turn to years, the stagnant foetid water that you've left in your sigg bottle might, when you finally get round to emptying it out, leave behind a musty and unpleasant taste. This isn't a weakness of the bottle though, it's a weakness of it's owner. The bottle will soon be back in fine fettle with a bit of TLC, especially if you put your back into it, you work-shy lily-livered bottle neglecter, you. | | Overall:
There really should be a society that lavishes love and attention on neglected and abused sigg bottles. They don't ask for much from life, just to be filled with water, occasional views of the world outside your rucksack when you drink from them and now and again, a bit of a wash. In return they give you years of faithful service, never leak and don't complain - in fact they quite like it - if you fill them with warm water and use them as a hot water bottle. Other fancy plastic sacs get all the attention they crave as their horrid nozzles flap around your mouth at every step but have you ever heard an envious word from your trusty sigg bottle? Not one, ever. Has it ever complained about being sat on, dented, dropped on rocks or used to poke or beat your flagging companions about the head and body? And you repay this unassuming, faithful, reliable piece of equipment by leaving it half-full of water for months on end, or scratching and damaging it so that it has 'credibility'.
Shame on you all! You should cherish this iconic bottle, buy it one of those insulated jackets to show it you care, wash it regularly, walk with it and drink from it with pride, instead of repaying its years of untiring service only with neglect and abuse and then taking up with a fancy 'hydration system' How do you think your sigg bottle feels about that, eh?
Ah well, time for my medicine - which I'll wash down with a swig from my sigg bottle, of course. |
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| | | | Posted: 23/03/06 | | 'THE BEST' | | Strengths:
hardwearing ,water tastes good,easy to fill ,easy to clean, and looks dead cool , can be used at gym as well | | Weaknesses:
heavier to carry than bag | | Overall:
nothing to beat it ,can even buy nipple type attachment if you miss your mum. |
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| | | | Posted: 23/03/06 | | 'TOUGH, CLEAN TASTING, EASY TO FILL (UNLIKE A BAG)' | | Strengths:
I've had one of these for years until I was persuaded that the modern way to roam the hills was with a plastic sack tucked away in my pack with a pipe and nipple that I could suck at in a revertion to babyhood. Big mistake.
The sack tainted the water with a strong plastic smell and taste. I boiled the sack, it made no difference. Water tastes beautifully clean and cool from the Sigg.
The sack flopped around while being filled, the Sigg is easy to fill.
After filling the sack it had to be fitted back into a pocket in the rucksack, no easy feat with a full pack. The Sigg can be stashed anywhere, my current rucksack has a convenient outside mesh pocket.
When the sack was stashed there was no easy way to see how much water you have left. You just shake the Sigg.
I've thrown away the water sack, I didn't have the heart to unload it on somebody via Ebay.
Long live the Sigg ! Ive dropped it a few times and it dents, so what, it gives it character. | | Weaknesses:
No nipple for baby impressions. | | Overall:
The right size.
1.5 litre is just about enough for one person on a summer day, two people on a winter day.
A brilliant design. Forget humped quadrapoids and australian marsupials.
Very tough.
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