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mkt42
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Nov 23, 2015
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DannyMilks
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mkt42@mkt42 - the dust cap is tied on to the bottle. Additionally, if it isn't clear from the photos and text you've read, the cap itself can be locked to it won't leak, even if the dust cap comes off and the valve is depressed. I like this flexibility as it gives me the ability to vary the use depending on the activity.
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The reason that I ask is that these types of bottles often have an inherent design flaw: dust caps that pop off too easily, and if loose, fall to the ground.
I had that happen to me this summer, using a similar sort of bottle. I had to slide down a short but steep rock face in Utah, scraping my pack against the rock and though I didn't know it at the time, popping the cap off the bottle. That bottle didn't have a bite valve, instead it was a push-pull valve, which also scraped open.
It was only when I felt water dripping down my back that I realized that I was leaking water and when I hurriedly grabbed that bottle out of my pack, the loose cap came flying out too, and bounced down the rock face into a crevice where I had no hope of retrieving it.
These SoftFlasks with their bite valves will hopefully not pop open in such a situation. But there's still the question of the dust caps popping off and getting lost -- unless they are tied on.
The other option is to have caps that screw on, as with an ordinary soft drink or gatorade bottle. Those only come off if you deliberately unscrew them. But they're slower and less convenient. Those SoftFlasks appear to have dust caps that pop off.