Upright water bottle lets road cyclists drink while staying tucked

Should you're a severe highway bicycle owner who's making an attempt to keep up an aero place and hold your eyes on the highway, then tilting your head again to drink from a bottle is not excellent. The Upright bottle was designed to deal with that drawback.

Invented by Dutch bicycle owner Lex van der Meiden, the Upright is being manufactured by his firm Nothirst. The bottle's design is kind of easy.

It consists of a most important water-containing physique, which an angled higher portion screws onto. A lid with a mouth valve screws onto that higher portion, with an inside rubber straw operating from the mouth valve right down to the underside of the primary physique. Every thing is made from bio-based food-grade LDPE (low-density polyethylene).

The thought is that each time the consumer wants a drink, they simply pull the Upright out their bike's bottle cage, maintain its valve to their mouth with out tilting their head again, then squeeze its most important physique to ship a squirt of water. This design is reportedly able to delivering all of the water within the bottle, leaving none behind.

Squeezing the Upright bottle's most important physique sends water out of the mouth valve

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Between makes use of, the entire thing will be disassembled and washed in a dishwasher. And as an added bonus, its angled high permits it to be crammed in an almost-horizontal orientation (useful if the sink is stuffed with dishes), plus it will not roll away if dropped on the highway.

The Upright is at the moment the topic of a Kickstarter marketing campaign, the place it is being in supplied in three colour selections and a capability of 750 ml (25 fl oz). Assuming it reaches manufacturing, a pledge of €15 (about US$16) will get you one – the deliberate retail value is €22 ($23). If sufficient pledges are obtained, extra colours and a 1,000-ml (34-fl-oz) mannequin will moreover be supplied.

Potential backers may additionally need to take a look at the prevailing H2bike system, during which a handlebar-mounted hose is run right down to a frame-mounted bottle which stays in place all through the journey.

Sources: Kickstarter, Nothirst