With temperatures this weekend predicted to soar, there’s greater need than ever to stay well hydrated on your bike. A Camelpak is a comfortable way to carry a useful amount of drink, and if you fill it with cold water, it acts like a cooling system for your back.
On an intensive ride, you need to drink about 1 litre of water every hour and it’s best taken little and often. If you are on a particularly long or competitive ride, you may want to add an energy drink to the water.
Win a Camelpak
The Camelbak Hydrobak holds a useful 1.5 litres of your favourite drink. If you could fill yours with anything, what would it be? Let us know at the bottom of this page and one lucky person will win their own Camelpak.
Driving to Europe this summer?
The effect of dehydration has been shown to be equivalent to drinking and driving – a problem exacerbated by long motorway journeys in a hot country.
Researchers found that mild hypo hydration increased driver errors during a prolonged, monotonous driving task. The effect on the motorists tested by Loughborough University was equivalent to driving at the drink drive limit (blood alcohol content of approximately 0.08 per cent) or while sleep deprived.
Studies were first carried out on men, who drank 200 ml of water every hour. On the dehydration test day, the same subjects consumed only 25 ml per hour – the equivalent of four sips. When dehydrated, the drivers were more likely to drift, brake late, and touch the rumble strip.
Ethical cycle insurance
On the face of it, one cycle insurance policy is much like another, but the devil is the detail. Check your small print for so-called ‘new-for-old’ replacement – many insurers use the term, but if your bicycle is more than a few years old, devalue it severely. This means you are left out of pocket when you come to replace it.
With ETA cycle insurance, however old the bike, if it’s stolen you get enough to buy a new model. Furthermore, every cycle insurance policy you buy from us helps support the work of the ETA Trust, our charity campaigning for a cleaner, safer transport future. No wonder The Good Shopping Guide has voted us Britain’s most ethical insurance company three years in a row.
Stuart Lamb
I’m thirsty
Eddie Kinghorn
I’d fill it with water and ensure a hydrated, sober and legal ride!!
Oliver
I’d fill it with camel’s milk. yum.
Owen Van Gijn
pure cold Malvern spring water fresh from the source whilst exploring the countryside
Sharon Evans
Good old fashioned tap water, it’s free and won’t leave a residue
Iain
Only ever fill with water, otherwise need to clean it out.
Ema
If I was there I would fill it with the best water in the World, Icelandic water 🙂
Nathan
I have had one of these for years, I would aim to pass onto my daughter to encourage her cycling mania.
Charlotte
Vimto squash keeps me going, mmmmm!
Ben
The tears of 1000s of drivers stuck in the traffic?
James Hart
H2O or maybe some water 😂
Carsten Rosenlund Meilandt
The worlds best chocolate milk from Denmark, COCIO ….. 🙂
Claire
Water and only tap water!
Greg
Tempted to fill with the water of life (whisky) but perhaps that’s not so wise
So will fill with highland spring water.
Christine
Just water will do. Sports drinks just gunk it up.
Roger
Fresh spring water with some freshly squeezed strawberry juice and a little lemon juice.
Mark D
I’d fill it with coconut water, the best natural hydration bar none
Steve Walsh
I’d go for ice-cold dandelion and burdock cordial. The taste of my childhood!
Mark B
Just water but for those odd occasions when I leave work after the pub’s shut a couple of pints would be a lovely novelty!
adrian price
cider— or if im being sensible perrier mimeral water with a dash of water
Ryan Payne
Id fill mine with Hooch and probably take a pasty too cause drinking and cycling makes me hungry 😉
Joel
Gin and tonic. No, I mean, er, good old council pop of course.
Scott
It would have to be Estrella hic.
Alec
Acqua Panna
Matt Blackmore
I’d fill it with cyclists petroleum: water and SIS lemon and lime energy shizzle
Peter Clark
Water. The original and still the best
Stuart Kowalski
Honestly. …not sure of it would be filled with water or alcohol. …
Pretty sure now it would be a water based liquid….honest
Lawrence
Ice cold spring water.
Spencer Back
Iced water please
James
Love to drink on the move and this sounds great for hot days
Toby James
Lovely fresh chilled water with some ice cubes thrown in for good measure
Jane C
Filtered water
Chris
Unchlorinated, all-natural water from a gorgeous place in the countryside I used to visit in the summer. Delicious, refreshing, clean and natural from a private spring. Not the bottled rainwater we’re all used to 😉
Bob Longhurst
What a clever, simple, really COOL “must have”.
Simon Randall
I’d fill it with an electrolyte drink – the perfect way to ensure that I keep the body’s salt levels correctly topped up even if I was sweating profusely!
Paul B
Water in mine!
Gavin
IPA failing that Palmers Copper.
Stefano
Water. The original.
Neil gathani
I’d fill it with one mahoosive cappuccino!! 😂😂 ice one that is…
Wai
Elderflower cordial
Ben Young
Cool filtered water!
T Deave
In this weather? Who can say no!!
edwin
Water and only water. so much easier to keep clean!
O Jackson
Water with crushed ice
Roger Birchall
Fresh spring water (straight from the tap)!
Haydn
very cold tap water
Charles
Could be the straw that breaks the Camel’s Pak if I don’t win!
Dick Willis
Brilliant kit.
Lisa Taylor
Moving to New Zealand….fresh clean river water!
Jonathan Hunt
H 2 Whoa, baby!
James Harris
Ice cold water.
Ruth Purdy
Squash for some refreshment
Anthony Johnson
Ice coffee!
Francis Voon
Water!
Debbie Fuller
I’d fill it with water from the Alps as that is where we are now (touring bike parks in the Alps until September) and my cheaper water backpack is not as good as Camelpak. The cap doesn’t go on and so it leaks on me as I mountain bike. Poor!