( 45 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 2 2009
I have a few of these and they work great. Just be careful on planes. When they depressurize the cabin, it effectively pressurizes the bottle. No, it won't explode, but it can leak through the bite valve. The benefit is that you get one suck free drink when you hit cruising altitude. How good is that? Luckily it doesn't work the other way. On landing, the relief valve keeps the bottle from developing a vacuum.
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Posted: Aug 2 2009
I bought this about 2 months ago and waited to write my review. All I can say is buy it. It's an amazing product. I use it every day, when I go to the gym and just bringing it around with me. The BPA free is a great thing to have, and this product is just pure quality. The bite nozzle takes a bit of getting used to at first, but after you use it a few times drinking out of a normal bottle will seem silly. Everything is just made with great quality and it has plenty of space for a lot of water. I put it in my cup holder and in the side of my backpack, and it fits snug and is great. Definitely recommend buying, you won't be disappointed.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 27 2009
I loved my bottle for the first few weeks. Then, as other people mentioned, it started growing mold in the valve assembly. No worries, I used a rolled-up tissue to clean it out. Well, of course, it came back again. And again. And then I made the HUGE mistake of using the bottle for iced coffee. I rinsed it out repeatedly, but that one use was enough to foster really scary mold growths, not only within the bite valve but also elsewhere in the assembly. Well, I thought, I'll take the whole thing apart and soak it in some lemon juice -- that should kill the mold, right? Yes. It killed the mold. But because of the kind of screw used in the top assembly (Torx with a raised bit in the center of the screw), I was unable to put the top assembly back together securely, so now my bottle lies unused on the counter, mocking me. There's no more mold, but I also can't use it :( I wish that a normal screw were used so that I could give the bottle another go (without iced coffee this time), but alas, it is not to be.
