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Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 26, 2016 14:46:47 GMT
Had this a few years back when I first bought a Camelbak, first few rides the water tasted "chemically" ... so bought some sterilizing tablets and treated .. jobs a good'n!
That taste/smell has come back with a vengeance after a while of no use!!  .. and the process of sterilizing hasn't worked this time! or running hot or cold water through it .. its like a very strong taste/smell of chlorine or similar, not pleasant!
Any idea's folks ? (other than the usual type of "fill it with beer then ya wont taste it" idea's ..  ) |
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Post by jack on Oct 26, 2016 14:50:35 GMT
Grow a pair of bal..... just drink It regardless of taste, floating bits
Be fine
What I pretty much do haha
Sterilising tablets, and a good scrub with one of the brushes from a cleaning kit is about all you can do, even if doesn't look dirty give it a scrub all over,
And the mouth peice if you can take thr rubber bit off look inside, mine gets filthy but it's not a part you ever think about cleaning,
Between rides the general consensus is empty it and wash it when you get back and leave it in the freezer between rides,
Day before get out and rinse/ fill up with fresh water or what ever it is you want to drink,
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Post by Rlo80 on Oct 26, 2016 14:51:01 GMT
what i have been doing for ages is, add some of the SIS Go Hydro tablets inside...tastes nice and gives you what you need on a ride...when i get home, make sure you drink it all (or remove all the liquid) and put the bladder on the freezer. It stops bacteria/smell. My bladder is a Vaude that came with a cleaning brush, but I've never used it.
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Post by hodgy on Oct 26, 2016 14:54:19 GMT
Try Milton solution but stronger than the recommended dose and for longer .
Leave the tube on but suck it through to nearly the end ( don't get it in your gob !
After sterilising immerse in boiling water
Then rinse a few times with cold ..and if that don't work ...buy a new bladder ya tight git..lol
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Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 26, 2016 15:32:32 GMT
Grow a pair of bal..... just drink It regardless of taste, floating bits
I did, yesterday, all 2ltrs of it ... it reminded me of when I was nipper learning to swim, and copped a nose full in the pool 
I have a got a "Platypus" one somewhere, which is prolly a bit better than the CB, but that's plan B, and only if I can find it of course (I've probably "put it safe" ..  )
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Post by dirkpitt74 on Oct 26, 2016 15:49:54 GMT
Give it a really good scrub with some warm soapy water and a brush.
Make sure you rinse it out a few times to get rid of the washing up liquid.
Leave it to dry a bit and then put it in the freezer.
Just rinse it out before the next ride and add water.
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Post by windysurfer on Oct 26, 2016 15:56:08 GMT
Very rarely clean mine out but ride pretty regularly so it not very often I find any 'tadpoles' in it.
A good clean and then freezer should kill anything nasty
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Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 26, 2016 16:08:53 GMT
Very rarely clean mine out but ride pretty regularly so it not very often I find any 'tadpoles' in it. A good clean and then freezer should kill anything nasty
That's the thing, its not that its dirty, exactly the opposite .. its cleaned out properly after each use, and it had this taste/smell from new!!
so I can only assume its to do with the rubbery plastic nature of the material its made from perhaps 
I do know the Platypus one is a different material that has no smell to it what so ever (which I've just found luckily  )
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Post by glynnsixo on Oct 26, 2016 16:29:29 GMT
new bladder, clean and rinse every few weeks with milton tabs, store in freezer
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Post by roundie1981 on Oct 26, 2016 17:16:43 GMT
Rinse mine out when I get back and bung it in the freezer, only ever really cleaned the mouth part
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Post by jack on Oct 27, 2016 6:58:19 GMT
Very rarely clean mine out but ride pretty regularly so it not very often I find any 'tadpoles' in it. A good clean and then freezer should kill anything nasty
That's the thing, its not that its dirty, exactly the opposite .. its cleaned out properly after each use, and it had this taste/smell from new!!
so I can only assume its to do with the rubbery plastic nature of the material its made from perhaps
I do know the Platypus one is a different material that has no smell to it what so ever (which I've just found luckily )
More flavouring / juice / tablets to over power the taste of the bladder needed then |
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Post by danthor on Oct 27, 2016 7:28:11 GMT
I use a "Platypus" bladder. Also used it while on a 10 day walking trip in Italy during the peak of summer. Water stayed fresh with no strange tastes.
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Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 27, 2016 9:49:15 GMT
I'm sure we're all sick of this thread now, but as y'all took the time to post
I gave it another treatment with sterilizing tabs, this time x2 tabs and hot water, and for a lot longer than stated on the pack .. and while it was on the side in the kitchen, I realized I could smell the chlorine smell on the outside as well !! .. so its obviously the material itself rather than anything else which I kinda knew .. so, I'm gonna use the Platypus for now, but perhaps try something flavoured in the CB instead of fresh water before giving up on it completely ..
Cheers for response  |
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.. and the process of sterilizing hasn't worked this time! or running hot or cold water through it .. its like a very strong taste/smell of chlorine or similar, not pleasant!
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