Sponsor Product! Rocket Bottles bring Aerospace Design to Your Sport Drinks

The cycling and triathlon world is full of companies with cool names to draw your attention. However, it is rare to find a company name that embodies not only the founders but also their products. Enter Rocket Science Sports a company started by Marcin Sochacki a triathlete who also studied aerospace engineering at the University of Texas.

Rocket Science Sports develops products engineered to cut through the air or water more efficiently and loaded with highly useful features and design elements. This becomes more significant with greater distances in the air or water and speed. While I’m not looking to shave 3 seconds off my personal record on a century ride-yet, I immediately appreciated the design of the bottles for other features.

• The bottles are very light and easier to squeeze than the bottles I had been using. This is more of an issue in colder weather, however in any weather it's hard to breathe, suck and pedal at the same time. Well it is for me!

• The bottles are made with safe and environmentally friendly plastic (PE#4), which is completely recyclable.

• Rocket Bottles are designed for holding 20 ounces of liquid, but they seemed to hold as much if not more than my bottles sold as 24 ounces.

• A tiny detail I immediately appreciated was the inside of the top is dome shaped. Why is that a nice detail? Have you ever filled your bottles up to the top and tried to shake them up to dissolve powdered drinks? You can’t, so you end up short filling them so you can.

• The bottles also have a silicon washer at the top where it meets the screw in bottle so they don’t leak. Why silicon? Because it works better than nothing and regular rubber. Excellent thinking by product management.

• The water level window on the side is nice to keep up with how much fluid is left. You end up shaking bottles that don’t have this design to guess how much is there or taking the top off.

• The Rocket Bottles taper at the bottom which helps them go into cages much easier than other similar bottles. The groove underneath the top is an easy surface to grab even with winter gloves and the dimples add traction. I've often struggled to get other wider bottles or ones with slick surfaces out with gloves or with sweaty hands.

It might be hard to believe something as simple as a water bottle could add enjoyment or lower frustrations on a ride, but the Rocket Bottles accomplish those challenges. They are well designed and manufactured with the athlete’s needs in mind. It’s worth checking them out and picking up a few even if you’re not a blinding speed demon looking to put only aerodynamically pure stuff on your bike.