Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 27d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 13/12/15 11:41 AM Share Posted 13/12/15 11:41 AM Nothing much to tellPowder staminade was the thing before the gatorades etc became the normCouple of spoons in a glass of water gave you back what the sweat took out.Salty and electrolytesAnyway - riding through NT - full leathers, camelback for hydrationVisor gets squished bugs - couple of drops from the camelback and a wipe cleans itCould of drops of staminade and a wipe... doesn'tThen - refill time - the staminade is basically a salt - leaves crystals that block everything in the tubes, a worse and worse taste as it gets more and more dilluted. Any metal bits - high salt, high electrolyte solution = rusty taste real quick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,246 Member For: 16y 10m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 13/12/15 11:43 AM Share Posted 13/12/15 11:43 AM was worth it, still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 10m 21d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 13/12/15 11:45 AM Share Posted 13/12/15 11:45 AM Nothing much to tellPowder staminade was the thing before the gatorades etc became the normCouple of spoons in a glass of water gave you back what the sweat took out.Salty and electrolytesAnyway - riding through NT - full leathers, camelback for hydrationVisor gets squished bugs - couple of drops from the camelback and a wipe cleans itCould of drops of staminade and a wipe... doesn'tThen - refill time - the staminade is basically a salt - leaves crystals that block everything in the tubes, a worse and worse taste as it gets more and more dilluted. Any metal bits - high salt, high electrolyte solution = rusty taste real quick.a good rinse would fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 27d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 13/12/15 11:50 AM Share Posted 13/12/15 11:50 AM Good rinse didn't fix - this was the early days of camel backs - am tipping something reacted with the bladder - went brown and then fragile.Not sure that the setups are now, but they used to have spring loaded valves at the mouth too - that was the bit that rusted after a day later. was worth it, still Was glorious for the first few hours - then it got warm and tasted like warm, smelly sock juice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 3m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 13/12/15 12:05 PM Share Posted 13/12/15 12:05 PM I think the best camel back drink bladders are the ones that can be turned inside out and cleaned 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 27d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 13/12/15 12:08 PM Share Posted 13/12/15 12:08 PM The best ones are those filled with bourbon at an all day rock concert in the park 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 2m 28d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 13/12/15 06:07 PM Share Posted 13/12/15 06:07 PM Now that's thinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,823 Member For: 21y 5m 17d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 15/12/15 10:40 PM Share Posted 15/12/15 10:40 PM The early Camel backs had a plastic "coat hanger" sort of contraption that went into the filler hole and expanded out so it would dry inside. Nothing a peg on the filler hole didn't fix while hanging up and the good old pipe cleaner for the hose or for the military it was the barrel cleaning attachment with some swab...Some had vodka and whatever cordial could be acquired which was a true winner OS at the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 27d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 19/12/15 02:09 AM Share Posted 19/12/15 02:09 AM Arrived this morning.All setup and doing its first burn-in.It's a big mofo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 3m 1d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 19/12/15 02:19 AM Share Posted 19/12/15 02:19 AM You know, you could have just got new batteries... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now