01-17-2016, 01:22 PM
I always carry fluids, usually a thermos of hot tea which I can drink and enjoy hot or cold. Quite often I also carry a plastic bottle of Lipton Green Tea citrus. I am not much of a water person, but on trips I carry a plastic bottle of water simply because I can refill it in my room everyday, and some straws of Crystal Light lemonade to pour into the water bottle to give it some flavor. I have never been one that requires fluids to be of any particular temperature .. warm fluid is just as good to me as cold fluid. Therefore if a bottle of water or green tea, sits in my tank bag for a couple of days and is " ambient temperature" be that icy sludge or just below boiling, that's fine with me. As long as it's wet, it quenches my thirst. Since I always have a tank bag and or tail pack on my bikes, storage is never a problem.