Product Review: Ice Cap
The same company that makes the Sweat Gutr we reviewed and gave away has sent me another product to review. The Ice Cap. It’s your basic water bottle but the lid has a stick attached to it that you freeze to keep your stuff cold.
Well, I’ve used it for a week and my verdict is as follows:
Form:** (out of 5)
It’s an average water bottle with an average looking lid (from the outside). Nothing special here, it’s even white.
Function: **
This thing scores low for me. My main complaint is the weight. When I throw ice in a bottle and hit the road on my bike, the ice keeps my drink cold, and then when it melts I can drink it, too. So the freeze-y stick in this thing is just added weight to me. Plus it takes up volume in the bottle that could be filled with hydrating liquids, which is important when you’re on a 30 mile bike ride (which is even considered short by a few of the hardcore bikers I know). Oh, and it also makes the bottle hard to squeeze, because you run into the stick in the middle. Maybe I just crush bottles when I squeeze them or something, but this seems like one of those products that the person who made didn’t use much or they’d have noticed this.
I will say that this would be fine for toting around in the car or something where wieght is a non-issue, I guess, but you still lose volume to the stick. Or if you’re nuts about your sports drink mix ratios, this eliminates ice and potential dilution. But I’ve found that people that are that fanatical about their setup are even more nuts about weight, so they’d never use this thing.
It still gets two stars because it does keep your drink cold, while not watering it down, which IS it’s stated purpose. There’s just too many cons from my point of view to warrant any more than two.
Value: **
$11.99 is kind of a lot for a bottle I only find appropriate for casual use.
Overall: **
I was surprised at how low I scored this thing, because this is the same company that sent me the Sweat GUTR, which I loved. The Ice Cap just wasn’t for me. It does keep your drink cold while avoiding dilution, but at the cost of weight and volume available for liquids. The trade-off just doesn’t work for me.
I know I’ve done giveaways for the last two products I reviewed, but I was only sent one of these, so no giveaway, sorry. I would give you mine, but it’s got chain grease on it and is a little scuffed up. (Not because I’m hardcore, but because I’m clumsy.)
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