Bear in mind that this was still pre-Camelbak-explosion, when everyone carried their water on their bikes, and magazines like Mountain Bike Action would crucify any test bike that came with fewer than two bottle mounts. So, at some point (and I am gonna nominate Specialized here, because for a long while there they were pretty much THE water bottle pimp for almost the entire industry) someone figured out that water bottles could be made a bit bigger by adding some extra capacity to the top of the thing, and the now absolutely ubiquitous 24 or so ounce bottle was born. Believe it or not, there was a time before Specialized began producing water bottles. Water bottles themselves were generally about the same size, and held between 20 and 22oz of life saving dihydrogen monoxide. The seat tube, the downtube, and maybe, if you were superlucky and expedition minded, in that shitcatchiest of all places, the underside of the downtube. Camelbaks were things that soldiers wore when doing soldiery things out in dusty places, and water bottle mounts were brazed into two, maybe three places on yer garden variety, double-diamond "ATB" frames. Okay, once upon a time, hydration bladders and mountain biking backpacks didn't exist. Jump in the wayback machine with me (again), kids! Grandpa's all hydrated up and has that faraway storytelling gleam in his eye! This, naturally, begs a question: Why does this bottle exist? Big enough that it's a coin toss whether or not it'll fit on your modern mountain bike. Big enough that it can quench a gigantic, 'Murican size thirst. Big enough that a 60 pound kelpie can hide behind it. That is the capacity of this here Trek Voda 34 water bottle.
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