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How to fill Speedfil while riding

Peter GreaggPeter Greagg
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I'm not sure if this is the correct forum or not but I have a question for those that use the Speedfil hydration system?  If its not, I'm very happy to post it in another place?

I have just installed the Speedfil on my tri bike and practiced filling it from a normal 750 ml bike bottle.  It seemed to take a fair while to transfer the fluid to the Speedfil.  I was concsious that I wasn't very aero while I was doing the filling. ')" unselectable="on" style="width: 20px; height: 20px; cursor: hand">image" onmousedown="return false;" src="http://members.endurancenation.us/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/shocked.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="" />

I wondered how the experienced peeps did their refills?

Cheers

Peter

Comments

  • kurshingkurshing
    This is the chief compaint I have heard expressed against the Speedfil, that is isn't a speedy fill. Once it IS full though, it is supposed the be great. Good luck with it...I would be interested if someone has a speedy way to do this.
  • jburbattjburbatt
    I'm assuming bike bottle = normal pop-up drinking top bottle. If I think I'm going to need to refill my speedfil on a ride then I'll put my refill liquid into a bottle that has an open top, like a plastic water/soda bottle. The open mouth allows it to fill up faster. But I almost never have to refill the speedfil since I use a concentrated formula in it and then have water up front to dilute it. If you aren't doing this I'd recommend trying it.
  • manconamancona
    I know this doesn't directly answer you question but I don't refill the speedfil. I use it for races only and but all the nutrition I need for the full day it in so I don't have to refill. To get more what on the course I just throw out my bottle and take a new one at each aid station... Much faster then trying to refill any type of bottle.
  • Linda PatchLinda Patch

    In the 3 IMs I've done, I have had to refill my Speedfill. I have my super concentrate in a small bottle in my pocket. (You may not like to hear this) but I stop at an aid station. unscrew the top, dump in concentrate, water that I need from the volunteers, and I am on my way in under 30". It's that fast. Guaranteed I would lose that much time or more trying to do the same while riding. I plan my nutritionout so that I only have to do this once during the race. For me, no big deal.  Hope it helps! image

     

     

  • Peter GreaggPeter Greagg

    Thanks everyone for responding.  I should have qualified my question by saying that my A race this year is a HIM.  So, I will refill from bottles behind my seat.  I think I will take the stopper out of the top of those bottles so they will empty quickly.

    I intend to do Irnonman Australia next season, and then I will do as Linda suggests — I will have a clear bottle of concentrate with markings on it for each serve, and stop at the aid station, add the serve of concentrate, top up with water, and restart.

    Cheers

    Peter

  • Linda PatchLinda Patch

    Ahhh, HIM. If  you plan it out carefully for the calories you need, you will not have to refill. image I make mine a 3 hour bottle, so with Gu, blox, what have you, there is more than enough in there for a HIM. Water in the aerobottle up front--that gets refilled on the fly.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Linda - what's in the small bottle of super concentrate? Extremely concentrated infinate that then gets diluted a little in the speedfill? How many scoops of infinate will dissolve in a small bottle of water? Just got a new bike and I'm thinking about how I'm going to set up the water/nutrition for Lake Placid. Seems like your system allows you to skip the confusion at special needs, but not carry as much weight for the whole course.
  • kurshingkurshing
    It would seem to me that a Speedfill and 2 behind the seat bottles should get you through a race without any refills needed.
  • Linda PatchLinda Patch
    Posted By Jim Daley on 07 Mar 2011 05:24 PM

    Linda - what's in the small bottle of super concentrate? Extremely concentrated infinate that then gets diluted a little in the speedfill? How many scoops of infinate will dissolve in a small bottle of water? Just got a new bike and I'm thinking about how I'm going to set up the water/nutrition for Lake Placid. Seems like your system allows you to skip the confusion at special needs, but not carry as much weight for the whole course.

     

    Hi Jim,



    Wish I could say it was my brilliance that allowed me to figure it out, but I just do what the Infinit Nutrition guy recommends in this YouTube video. In a quite small container--think small Fuel Belt bottle--I can mix enough calories for another three hour Speedfill. Hope this helps!

  • Peter GreaggPeter Greagg

    Thanks again for all the responses.

    The reason I was trying to refil the Speedfil in a HIM, with two bottles behind the seat, was that I was thinking that drinking from the Speedfil was way more aero that reaching behind the seat for the next bottle, have a drink and replace the bottle etc.

    Am I just outsmarting myself?  Any help would be very much appreciated.

    Cheers

    Peter

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Nice video Linda. Thanks!
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