We’ve seen many hydration systems for running and cycling, but Quiksilver now offers a wintertime hydration pack that puts the bladder in the jacket! The new jacket will be ready to hit the slopes – and let skiers and snowboarders have their drink in the jacket – next season.
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Hydration Systems Adds Lapels!
Bicycle accessory innovator Showers Pass has released it latest improvement for hydration systems, the LapelEau, a drinking hose attachment reel for use with virtually hydration backpack. Simple but effective, it will help keep the drinking tube in place. It features unique patent-pending magnetic retractable reel technology that provides just enough retention force to keep the tube close at hand and under control.
Go With the JetFlow
Hydration packs are a great way to bring along some water. You can wear these on your back so as to be less encumbered. The downside is that the bladders can get nasty over time. You can’t really “clean” them as easily as a water bottle.
So what if you could use water bottles in a hydration system? Well, that’s the idea behind the JetFlow, which basically is a nifty piece of plastic or aluminum hardware that transforms water bottles into bladders. It can work with traditional reusable bicycle or hiking water bottles or even with store bought water bottles. Just screw the bottle into the manifold and it works just like a traditional bladder-based hydration system. Continue reading Go With the JetFlow
A Better “Mouse Trap?”
As long as bicycle racing events have been occurring, riders have been using a number of containers to hold water or other liquid nutrients on their bikes. Aluminum canteens, glass bottles, plastic bottles and more recently hydration backpacks, worn on the rider, have been used. Bottles have been mounted or carried on the handlebars, down tube, seat tube, behind the seat or in a jersey pocket.
Hydration backpacks have been worn on the back or as a fanny pack, but usually mounted to the body with the liquid being delivered to the rider’s mouth using a tube. Now the Portland, Oregon company, Shower Pass, is looking to merge the bike mounted bottle with the convenience of the hydration pack delivery system into one unique system. (Video after the jump) Continue reading A Better “Mouse Trap?”
Hydromax – The End of the Water Boy?
We may soon mark the end of the end of the era in football. Over the years there have been many changes to the game, the introduction of helmets and pads, the change of the grid field and even rules in scoring. But soon, the once proud water boy maybe out of a job thanks to a new wearable water supply system.
In truth, this could actually solve an increasingly worrisome problem. Dehydration remains an issue for many players, especially in southern states and on those sunny and warm fall days. The Hydromax system could just be the key to keeping athletes hydrated for those times when water remains on the sidelines – so close and yet so very far away. Continue reading Hydromax – The End of the Water Boy?