If you're riding 2 days in a row, do you change the water in your backpack?

For the record, I do. Just curious what others do

Yes. I’d have drunk it all on the first day.

Is there a fridge handy or are we talking camping/bivvying?

Mine stays in there for weeks.
As far as i’m aware the same water has been going around for quite some time…

I like to think that the water I drink was once inside a T rex. 😯

TBF, water is fine. It only gets complicated if you start diluting it with something sugary

I like to think that the water I drink was once inside a T rex.

You’re right, it was. Also Cleopatra, Hitler, Genghis Khan, a trilobite and a pterodactyl, among quite a few other living things.

Did you know: if you take a glass of water, pour it into the sea, give it a decade or two for the molecules to swish about all over the world, and then pick up another glass of seawater, the second glass will absolutely, definitely contain water molecules that were in the first glass. That’s because there are waaaay more water molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world’s oceans (proof). Bonkers. 😀

I still change my Camelbak water every day though, it starts tasting a bit manky after a bit – it’s the stuff that isn’t water that’s the problem.

As I never drink 2 litres there is always some left. Sometimes half. I just top it up again when I next use the bladder, say every other year. Never cleaned it but 15 years isn’t long. It did swill out the one that carried 3 litres of ale for an evening and also the one that had carried a 50\50 mic of redbull/lucazade.

2 days? If it’s been in there 2 months and it’s just plain water, (and I’m in a rush), it’s fine.

Emptying and rinsing my Camelbak bladder is part of my standard post ride actions so that happens whether I’m riding the next day or if I’ll be off the bike for weeks.

I don’t even change my shorts.

singlespeedstu – Member

I like to think that the water I drink was once inside a T rex.

Dinosaurs were real? 🙄

I always end up carrying wayyy more water than I need, as I hate running out of it, daft I know as the stuff’s lying about all over the place here.
So it’s a full camelback every time I go out.

Usually depends whether I mixed a dash of urine into it…never last well well with urine it. If I have mixed it in I have to drink it all on the first day/bin it at end of the ride…

I’ll just top it up unless I’ve got plenty of time.

I’d rinse and replace if using bottled supermarket water though, as it goes slimy very quickly, presumably due to the lack of chlorine. Had it a couple of times when camping. Its a clear slime, you don’t realise until you put your hand inside to wash it.

Yeah I do. Standard post ride procedure is empty the bladder (if there’s anything left in it), rinse with hot water and bung it in the freezer drawer until the next ride.

At the ronde sportive a few years ago I had 3-month old water in the only bottle I remembered to take. Nobody died.

Did you know: if you take a glass of water, pour it into the sea, give it a decade or two for the molecules to swish about all over the world, and then pick up another glass of seawater, the second glass will absolutely, definitely contain water molecules that were in the first glass. That’s because there are waaaay more water molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world’s oceans (proof). Bonkers.

Surely only true assuming perfect distribution across all water in the ocean, so unlikely in the real world.

Oh, and no, I just continually top up and get sugar from gels if I need it to save on washing.

drain it, and let it dry. It’ really depends on the amount left from the first day. If past half full I tend to drink the rest so I waste a bit less.

tip: if you use sugary stuff in your bladder you should let it hang dry then put it in the freezer for the night(empty) and take it out an hour before you leave for the next ride. it minimizes the bad taste.
a colleague fill it up 100% with water instead to do the same trick but change it for new water before his ride. -too much waste for my liking and the freezer is already running..