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In 2008 I read this article https://www.wired.com/2008/10/bottle-shock-4/">https://www.wired.com/2008/10/b... by, I believe, @dannydoom and @adriennemso .
This was in the BPA-will-kill-you era and Siggs were THE water bottle to have - esp in Brooklyn. Kidding (kinda).
Anyway....
This was in the BPA-will-kill-you era and Siggs were THE water bottle to have - esp in Brooklyn. Kidding (kinda).
Anyway....
The Bilt bottle was the way I was going to go. I wasn& #39;t fond of stopping all the time to buy coffee (and the associated waste - both fiscal and environmental) so the wide mouth sold me. Esp when I realized I could use my pourover directly on it & use full size ice cubes for water
I bought it in Nov 2008 from REI for about $9 (I had a discount code).
I used that bottle up until about 2.5 years ago when it developed a crack in the rim that would drip when I tried to drink from it.
So, how did it hold up?
I used that bottle up until about 2.5 years ago when it developed a crack in the rim that would drip when I tried to drink from it.
So, how did it hold up?
Obviously it was fantastic. I loved the almost brutalistic look to it. It was never uglier than it was at the outset so it wasn& #39;t going to have paint rub off, fall out of design trend, etc.
It was massive - I think it held around 700 or 750 ml but still easily transportable.
It was massive - I think it held around 700 or 750 ml but still easily transportable.
The wide mouth let me a) even use it for soups, etc. b) clean it more effectively than a Sigg or anything w/ a small mouth c) more forgiving of being filled from a water fntn w/ iffy pressure. Lots of other perks too
I can& #39;t tell you the number of times it sustained a fall and
I can& #39;t tell you the number of times it sustained a fall and
didn& #39;t burst open. Each time I fully expected to be cleaning up a fifth of ice cold water from the floor of Penn Station. Each time it held up.
The wide loop in the cap allowed for all manner of tether / carabiner, etc.
The wide loop in the cap allowed for all manner of tether / carabiner, etc.
When it did develop a leak I contacted the folks @GSIOutdoors (which had acquired a company that had acquired Bilt) to see if they& #39;d honor the warranty. Within about a week of being in touch I had a new one with some bonus accessories.
It was the larger cousin though (1L I think) since it seems that particular product had been sunsetted (2 ts? 1t?) so it& #39;s relegated to water use (the kids began to ask why the water had coffee flavor so I began keeping water and coffee exclusive bottles).
(I do have a double-walled @SIGGofficial that I use for coffee, though that line has also been discont& #39;d).
That $9 purchase - initiated from a single article I read in @wired 12 years ago - easily saved
That $9 purchase - initiated from a single article I read in @wired 12 years ago - easily saved
hundreds of paper cups and plastic lids and water bottles from making their way into the system and is by far one of the best purchases I& #39;ve ever made.
I& #39;ve separated the rim and lid from the metal and dropped both in my recycling (yay recyclable materials)!
I& #39;ve separated the rim and lid from the metal and dropped both in my recycling (yay recyclable materials)!
There& #39;s no real _point_ to this thread, esp as the world burns around us. But I just happened to recall the process in buying this bottle (notwithstanding the aesthetics) and sometimes, even if it& #39;s just for the exercise on a very small scale it& #39;s good to recall how you got to
a particular place and consider how a random leap of faith panned out from over a decade earlier.
