Hygiene - a schoolboy error

[gaijintendo]

Thanks for sharing. I never wash the things, I just let them dry out on my desk and rinse very occasionally... with similar consequences...

Just to say, it may just be regression to the mean, but I have slowly been scaling the Bristol chart since switching to bottled water (as @User259 suggested) and cleaning my bidons.
I used to think a Spanish diet agreed with me, on account of things behaving properly when I was on holiday, but now I realise I have probably been maintaining a baseline listeria level at home for the last 5 years.
Thanks all.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I don't know, but I can't think of another situation in which the nozzle of a drinks container, which gets put directly in one's mouth, is so close to the ground and vulnerable to being covered with all sorts of cack, wet or dry. The longer you leave it without washing it, the more bacteria you get?

This happened to a lot of riders on a wet PBP in 2007. They weren't using mudguards so got crap on their bottles.