How many times have you dropped your water bottle?

[Crackle]

Me, never, until recently and now I've dropped the darned buggering tarnation twice. The first time it rolled across two lanes of traffic before rolling back and hogging the white line and every bugger stopped and waited for me to do the walk of shame to retrieve it. Today I just dropped it and it fell in the gutter, not so bad but I must have dropsy lately. You?

 

[Rob3rt]

Never dropped from my hand, but had one bounce out of a cage on 2 occasions, once during a group ride, a car took it out and I promptly got a different bottle cage.

 

[gaz]

Only happened to me once. I usually pull the bottle out and then throw the bottle up a bit to adjust my grip to a bet position. It slipped out my fingers and went rolling along the road.

Platypus on the mtb for me, more likely for a bottle to come loose, and you know, dirt.

 

[numbnuts]

Camelbak user here

 

[Mapster1989]

I dropped it once and it went, like you said, across two lanes of traffic. My initial thought was 'Bugger it. I'll leave it,' but then I went around the roundabout, up and around the next and back onto the road where I dropped it to retrieve it.

 

[HLaB]

I've not done it often but I know I have done it I can remember the sacastic 'you've lost your bottle'

 

[byegad]

I've never dropped it but had the experience of two Aluminium bottles jumping off the bike as I descended a bumpy, and steep hill at 40mph or so on my Dahon Speed-Pro folder, 20" wheels 120psi tyres and big bumps are not a good mix. As I hit one very big bump I watched the one attached to the handlebars lift and slow, I decided to let it go rather than risk trying to catch the damn thing so it bounced off my leg and disappeared from view. As I braked to a stop, the handlebar mounted one went sliding past me, then as I put a foot down something to hit my foot, hard! I'd lost one mounted behind the seat on the same bump, and that one had got me. I still have the two very battered aluminium bottles. I can speak from experience that 500+ml of water in a metal bottle, still going at a fair clip really stings.

 

[Markymark]

I did once drop the olive from the martini I was drinking....

 

[Asa Post]

Never.
But... I always stop when I want a drink

 

[thegravestoneman]

Never dropped it from my hands but missed the cage a few times, always preferred it in my pockets but the bottles are all huge these days

 

[youngoldbloke]

As Rob3rt - not dropped them, but had one bounce out once or twice on cr_p road surface. Difficult to find a good sidecage that holds a large bottle well and allows you to take the bottle out and replace it easily on the move

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Never dropped it, but one had been ejected from my bottle cage by the force of hitting a pot hole

 

[inkd]

Missed the cage once but was pootling on a quiet B road so no biggy.

 

[paul04]

Never dropped it, but it has fell out of its holder when I went over a pothole in the road, just got a new holder today from decathlon, and the bottle clicks in place, so no more falling out.

 

[Crackle]

I wasn't clear. I meant missed the cage.