Go Back   Cycling Forums » Bikes » Cycling Equipment
Cycling Equipment Need some advice on cycling equipment? Do you have a buckled wheel? Problems with your gears? Need help truing a wheel?













Custom Bottles

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 12-21.-2007
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 21
Rep Power: 0
bakstreet is on a distinguished road
Default Custom Bottles

I was wondering if anyone has made custom water bottles? If so, who did you use and were they good bottles and how was the cost? I'm considering it, but don't want a cheap bottle but also was hoping not to spend a fortune.

Thanks
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 12-21.-2007
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Suburban Chicago
Posts: 2,777
Rep Power: 9
daveornee
Default Re: Custom Bottles

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakstreet
I was wondering if anyone has made custom water bottles? If so, who did you use and were they good bottles and how was the cost? I'm considering it, but don't want a cheap bottle but also was hoping not to spend a fortune.

Thanks
We used Specialized bottles from coolerpromos.com and the basicbottles.com own brand.
Price is dependent on many factors. We were happy with both, but I heard more positive feedback regarding the use of the Specialized brand.
__________________
David Ornee, Western Springs, IL USA
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 12-22.-2007
kdelong's Avatar
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: South Western Ohio, USA
Posts: 2,141
Rep Power: 5
kdelong is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Custom Bottles

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakstreet
I was wondering if anyone has made custom water bottles? If so, who did you use and were they good bottles and how was the cost? I'm considering it, but don't want a cheap bottle but also was hoping not to spend a fortune.

Thanks
I can't see a reason for custom bottles unless you just want to customize the appearance. There are so many different sizes and shapes of bottles out there that it should not be difficult at all to find one to your liking. And if you can't fins a bottle that you like, there are always camelback type hydration systems that you can get.

I think that unless you were going to order them by the tens of thousands, getting custom shaped bottles made would be extremely high priced because special molds would have to be engineered, drawn up, machined, and then set up for the bottle run. These costs would be spread over the number of bottles ordered, so the more bottles ordered, the lower the per bottle cost. Using conservative figures, a run of 10,000 pieces of a close to typical 1 lt custom bottle using a standard polyvinyl material and standard pull type nozzle would run between $15 - $20 US per unit. A run of 100 of the same bottle would cost $438+ US per unit. A single bottle of the example would be in the neighborhood of $2800 US. The example above is only to illustrate a point and should not be considered as a valid quotation of pricing for water bottles.

Special logos or colors on standard shaped bottles would be much less expensive, but there would still be additional costs that would apply.
__________________
One life, one chance. Don't waste it!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Tags
bottles, custom

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:48 AM.

Powered by: vBulletin Copyright © 2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0
Copyright © 2001 - 2009 cyclingforums.com

Translations (powered by Google):
Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Spanish Swedish