What have you collected and brought home in your water bottle? Planned or spontaneously.

[Katherine]

I love Alan's idea of collecting blackberries in a water bottle, as mentioned in the cleaning your bottle thread.

When I got home today, my water bottle was full of blackberries! But I've already cleaned those out

It makes me wonder what else it could be used for (after you've drunk it's contents.)

 

[mikeymustard]

Could it be used for stealing a (admittedly small) shark from an aquarium?

Edit: as you can probably tell I'm a divergent thinker

 

[Alan O]

I love Alan's idea of collecting blackberries in a water bottle, as mentioned in the cleaning your bottle thread.

It makes me wonder what else it could be used for (after you've drunk it's contents.)

I'd stopped about a mile from home at some blackberry bushes, and as I ate a few I was thinking what a shame I didn't have a bag or anything to take some home in. Then the obvious idea struck me, and I was lucky I had my 1 litre bottle with me so I got lots!

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5337528, member: 21629"]Tadpoles.

Don't ask me how I know this ....[/QUOTE]
You've done it!

 

[Vantage]

Air.
Dunno how it gets in there but when I return from a long enough ride the bottle is full of the stuff.

 

[NorthernDave]

I once ran out of water and put 500ml of cherryade in my water bottle. That didn't end well...

 

[TheDoctor]

I have carried vinho verde in a bidon. It warms up rapidly :-(
A bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale fits perfectly into a bottle cage.
DAMHIKT.

 

[mikeymustard]

I once ran out of water and put 500ml of cherryade in my water bottle. That didn't end well...

oops! I destroyed a friend's husband's silver plated hip flask in a very similar way

 

[Alan O]

[QUOTE 5337711, member: 9609"]I fill mine with blackberries too, and will be this year when they are ready - I would have thought that weeks away yet.

Are your blackberries super early ?[/QUOTE]
Yes, they're always early here along the sunny bank of the loop line part of NCN 62 - there's already a good crop of ripe fruit. Most years I pick enough to make 5 gallons of wine.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 5337711, member: 9609"]I fill mine with blackberries too, and will be this year when they are ready - I would have thought that weeks away yet.

Are your blackberries super early ?[/QUOTE]
The ones in our garden have been getting ripe for about a fortnight now.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Slight drift, but I am amazed at the number of people every year picking blackberries at the roadside.

Why not just lick your own exhaust pipe?

 

[FishFright]

Water !
Ive filled up with water from St Anne's well in Buxton a time or two

 

[Accy cyclist]

I once ran out of water and put 500ml of cherryade in my water bottle. That didn't end well...

Same as when i put beer in mine i suppose. It was an aluminium bottle with a screw on top,but once i'd gone over so many bumps that beer wasn't for staying in that bottle! The top blew off(i don't know how,but it did) sending the beer all over the lower bits of my bike. Why beer on a bike ride some would ask? Well, i just fancied a slurp as it was supposed to be a leisurely ride along the canal and a bit of sightseeing.

 

[lazybloke]

Slight drift, but I am amazed at the number of people every year picking blackberries at the roadside.

Why not just lick your own exhaust pipe?

In my winemaking days I did have a bookmarked webpage which talked about contamination from leaded petrol being detectable in roadside fruit. Can't find the page now.
Doesn't modern fuel have a higher benzene content? Ermmm...

 

[Serge]

Same as when i put beer in mine i suppose. It was an aluminium bottle with a screw on top,but once i'd gone over so many bumps that beer wasn't for staying in that bottle! The top blew off(i don't know how,but it did) sending the beer all over the lower bits of my bike. Why beer on a bike ride some would ask? Well, i just fancied a slurp as it was supposed to be a leisurely ride along the canal and a bit of sightseeing.

I've always got beer in my water bottle, it can sometimes be a hell of a trek between pubs.