I have the ability and resources to design and manufacture a plastic cap for this blasted water bottle. I have one myself and am sick of washing the sticky off my bike, and helmet, and glasses, and shoes, and… It even got into my brake cable and caused it to get sticky.
I would be able to sell them for about $5 each. How many of you would buy this product if it was available?
Not sure how many people would buy. The bottle itself only costs about $9 and someone posted you can use a lens cap to cover it.
If it’s a good, snug, realiable and easy alternative to sponges, loofa’s and splashing then $5 is fine. I suspect I would order a bunch for myself and those on my team.
Absolutely.
Chris
I would
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$5 w/$8.95 S&H? 
I’m partial to the black tape I’ve been covering it with the past few years. But, if a cover was out there, I’d probably go for it.
dk
signme up
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Maybe if it still let you refill on the fly…
It would be ideal if the base of the lid stayed on while a “refill hatch” flipped up like a baby-wipes container, or like the lid on a ketchup container. Is that do-able?
i would
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I would buy
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Just get Joe to show you how he made this:
http://www.asiorders.com/view_user_photo.asp?EVENTID=20041&ID=35248254&FROM=photos&BIB=68
Photo from ASI.
My thought was a plastic cap that when you push on the domed center it would snap into place. Kind of like those neat tins of mints you can buy.
Refilling on the fly would be slightly difficult because you have to deal with a cap, but the only time I would need to refill would be racing. 95% of my miles are training where I don’t have the need to refill on the fly.
Of course, I don’t generally drink more than 32 oz during a 40k anyway…
It could be done, but only with a significant tooling investment ($15K min). That’s a lot of $5 covers! I did consider having a small tab off the cap that snaps into the extra straw hole for retention…
I would buy one is a second that yellow loofa thing is worthless (still a little mad after stopping for it twice last night)
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You can replace the “yellow loofa thing” with a large pot scrubber - they’re cheap, tend to stay in the bottle better that the loofa, come in colours other than yellow (if that’s important to you) and you can use them for doing your dishes in the off season.
Incredible. I’d pay $200 for something custom like that if it fit my “bike system” perfectly like that.
Chris
Any tips to keeping the bottle centered in its bracket - mine keeps tilting to the side (the arms of the bracket move) - which surely cannot be aero!
Make it out of carbon fiber, and you can sell thousands of them here.
Somebody makes a clone of the Profile bottle, but with a screw on lid. I have one, but don’t remember where I ordered it, and it has absolutely no markings on it.