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 Alas, our whirlwind romance was fated to be brief... Jul 12, 2010
We met in the sporting goods aisle. Instantly attracted to its perky color, appealing design, and exotic origins, I took it home. After a two week honeymoon period, during which the bottle was much loved, used only for cold tap water, and gently washed with mild dishwashing liquid and a Sigg brush, the liner started to peel off inside the neck. Whatever the liner is made of, I doubt it's edible. The end of the relationship was swift and my lack of judgment embarrassing, but I've learned my lesson. In the future, I will read the reviews first instead of letting Swiss good looks blind me to the fact that I'm falling for an expensive piece of trash.
 less durable than hoped for, lots of places it can't go May 09, 2010
When my old plastic reusable bottle disappeared, I decided I'd try one of the Sigg bottles I was seeing everywhere. I liked the size and the smaller opening, and hey, it looks cool, but there were problems I didn't anticipate:
1) I spend a lot of time in sports venues and traveling. Most places, an empty plastic bottle can be carried in and filled at a handy drinking fountain. Not so with a metal bottle. I ended up buying more bottled water.
2) When people said this bottle dented easily, they weren't kidding. This is not a bottle for an active urban lifestyle (by which I mean getting around a city via bike and public trans, going to crowded outdoor venues, dealing with interlocking security doors, etc). I can only imagine it's less useful for serious hikers. Within a few months, the top was difficult to thread and eventually, the seal began to leak. I finally ditched the bottle when I cracked the body of it.
In sum, I got my money's worth out of it, but it didn't perform as well as I believed it would.
 Sigg Bottle Apr 09, 2010
I have been trying to go greener with my lifestyle so it was a no-brainer to switch to reuseable rather than plastic bottles. I chose the Sigg bottles since they were aluminum vs plastic and thus lowered my depenence on petrolium.
I love the designs I can choose from. I purchased the Gorilla bottle for my 'grape ape' of a husband.
Sigg bottles tend to keep my water cooler for longer, but when the bottle itself heats up, the water gets warm. Although this is common with any bottle, I just don't like warm water. I hope to try the cooler pouches/neoprene sacs.
Unlike plastic bottles you cannot freeze these, and the opening are a bit small to put ice in them, but they are bigger than your standard plastic water bottle.
These are lightweight, and with the additional strap are perfect for vacations (although they are listed as child straps, they work for adults, even my over 6' tall husband).
They come in multiple sizes. I found that the child bottle was perfect to throw in my purse when I go on my erronds.
I read a lot of reviews on these bottles and: I have no burning problems, I don't store water for more than the day so I don't have foul water issues (for that matter why is someone wanting to store water in these bottles anyway?), I clean it out after use and again no foul water, I have both the screw top and sport top and both are easy to use and are water tight, and even though the lining ingredients are secret...I still think this is better than all the other crap out there (heck, SIGG is a reputable company...and the other non-names bottles are most likely made by child labor in dirty chinese factories).
Yet, I only rate this 4 stars. Although I love this bottle and many other sigg products, I have to give it a star less for the price. These are pricy and in todays world...I am glad I got a gift certificate for Christmas, I couldn't see spending my money on these at the full regular price. Also if you are buying these, shop wisely, calculate shipping and tax and everything, cause it might be cheaper to go to target.
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The new 'EcoLiner' liners in these bottles will peel off!!! Mar 31, 2010
The new 'EcoLiner' liners in these bottles will peel off!!! At first I thought I had a piece of debris, hair or something in my bottle, then I realized it was from the bottle itself. I tugged at it a little and the yellowish liner of the bottle peeled right out of the threads. The chance of ingesting this peeling is very good. Worse for you than a little BPA, I'm guessing... Don't buy a Sigg!!
Lovely but... Feb 09, 2010
Beautiful looking but with 2 features that are annoying to me. First is that you can't throw them in the dishwasher. Okay, not a deal breaker there (even though I've had to tell the kids to put nothing but water in theirs). But they do warn you about that, so really no valid complaint on my side.
BUT second, the opening isn't big enough for ice cubes. Not even the smaller sized ones that most fridge ice-makers produce. Not to criticize the design geniuses at Sigg, but I would have thought a wider mouth wouldn't have hurt the integrity of the bottle.
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