More on Bottles, and Snow?

I spent my Saturday afternoon on the phone trying to get everyone on the same page for an informal team dinner before WORS starts. I had started on it a while ago but it's next to impossible to find a night when everyone is free, not to mention the fact that we live all over the place. We got together last night, and had a decent turnout. Some teammates spent Sunday doing trail work up at the Lake Geneva course. Or so they thought! When they got there they ended up digging out giant snowdrifts. Unfortunately they did not get any pics. I can only use my imagination on shoveling huge piles of snow at the end of April.

Fran, Wendy and DJ after dinner. Fran is having her baby next week!

Even Velo-News is writing about the water bottles now. In the May 5 print edition there is an article on toxic water bottles on p. 30. In a nutshell, most cycling water bottles are No. 4 plastic. (look on the bottom of the bottle) which is apparently less toxic. The chemicals currently coming under fire as being toxic in new studies are found in bottles made of plastics No. 3, 6, and 7. My Nalgene and Camelback bottles say No 7 on the bottom. However, both of those companies are now making bottles that don't use the BPA chemicals.

I remember a few years ago being told not to use cycling water bottles (No 4) which were thought to leach chemicals. I think it might have been phtlates (sp?) that were in them but I really can't remember. Now they seem to be considered safer than the old ''safe" bottles. In the same issue, on page 99, they suggest the Camelback Podium bottle, the gel-Bot, and the plain old standard cycling water bottle, which are mostly made by Specialized. (You probably have like 30 of them.)

And here's an old school bmx pic of mountain bike legend Johnny T on the Tomac bikes blog. It was probably taken when he was a kid growing up in Michigan.