Soma Fabrications launch the world's biggest water bottle that fits in a standard sized cage, with a 1.1 litre capacity

CXR94Di2 wrote:

These bottles come into their own when climbing mountain passes or expanse of wilderness, where multiple hours without seeing a cafe or water point.

Hmmm, surely if you are in the back and beyond "multiple hours" (that's usually more than two) is an extra 350-400ml of liquid* really going to be enough of a margin to be safe?

Wouldn't you be looking at two x 1100ml plus a 750ml as a bare minimum if you're going to be out for that length of time with absolutely no failsafe/backup to get fluids from? Fluids can seem to go in a flash if you're having to exert yourself (you mentioned mountains right) and/or the conditions creep up on you or just plain underestimated how much you needed, it can turn into something very unpleasant indeed, causing panic or worse.

Might not simply having a bladder pack in a saddle/pannier bag or over the top tube (tri style) better for taking extra liquids than trying to utilise multiple extra large bottles?

You could maybe fit one to your downtube if you've an older frame type or have a side 'opening' cage, I suppose if you rode a 61/62 sloping then you might squeeze one in using a std cage but that's not many is it. Attached direct to the saddle via a mounted bottle cage is going to be awkward but maybe doable if you don't have a saddle bag there, could do under the downtube but most endrance bikes don't have those mounts either (though u can buy kit to do so), proper adventure bikes should have the third cage mount but then you've got rack mounts anyways in which case you're likely to have front/rear panniers so simply putting back up fluids in the bags to transfer to bottles as per above is better? 

*based on a 700-750ml bottles

Sriracha wrote:

"Further 38oz is 170% bigger than a 22oz (650ml) water bottle and 152% bigger than a 25oz (740ml) water bottle..."

Sheesh, even a 44oz bottle would be only 100% bigger than a 22oz bottle. A 38oz bottle is 170% of the capacity of a 22oz bottle, so it is 70% bigger. And a 22oz bottle, at 100% the size of a 22oz bottle, isn't any bigger at all.

More importantly, is it 100% biodegradable?

EU-Bottle (Hungary) have offered a quality 1 litre size bike bottle for many years so this really is nothing new! 

As for Biodegradable thats a silver bullet that does not exist.  Most bottles are made from Polyethelene plastic & even with special chemical additives will only break down to a limited extent and this process ONLY works in landfill environment (not in a hedgerow, garden compost heap etc).  Most cycle bottles are fully recyclable when they reach end of life so should be sent to for recycling so the plastic can then be ground down and re-purposed into a new product.   

wildoo wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

"Further 38oz is 170% bigger than a 22oz (650ml) water bottle and 152% bigger than a 25oz (740ml) water bottle..."

Sheesh, even a 44oz bottle would be only 100% bigger than a 22oz bottle. A 38oz bottle is 170% of the capacity of a 22oz bottle, so it is 70% bigger. And a 22oz bottle, at 100% the size of a 22oz bottle, isn't any bigger at all.

More importantly, is it 100% biodegradable?

EU-Bottle (Hungary) have offered a quality 1 litre size bike bottle for many years so this really is nothing new! 

As for Biodegradable thats a silver bullet that does not exist.  Most bottles are made from Polyethelene plastic & even with special chemical additives will only break down to a limited extent and this process ONLY works in landfill environment (not in a hedgerow, garden compost heap etc).  Most cycle bottles are fully recyclable when they reach end of life so should be sent to for recycling so the plastic can then be ground down and re-purposed into a new product.   

Sriracha wrote:

wildoo wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

"Further 38oz is 170% bigger than a 22oz (650ml) water bottle and 152% bigger than a 25oz (740ml) water bottle..."

Sheesh, even a 44oz bottle would be only 100% bigger than a 22oz bottle. A 38oz bottle is 170% of the capacity of a 22oz bottle, so it is 70% bigger. And a 22oz bottle, at 100% the size of a 22oz bottle, isn't any bigger at all.

More importantly, is it 100% biodegradable?

EU-Bottle (Hungary) have offered a quality 1 litre size bike bottle for many years so this really is nothing new! 

As for Biodegradable thats a silver bullet that does not exist.  Most bottles are made from Polyethelene plastic & even with special chemical additives will only break down to a limited extent and this process ONLY works in landfill environment (not in a hedgerow, garden compost heap etc).  Most cycle bottles are fully recyclable when they reach end of life so should be sent to for recycling so the plastic can then be ground down and re-purposed into a new product.   

Yes indeed thats very misleading.  You would have thought the manufacturer would be shouting loudly about this on their website but they don't and there will be a very good reason for that!