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Andy_Pagin
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PostPosted: 15:16 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Electric tyre inflator Reply with quote
Can anyone recommend a good compact inflator? I've had five punctures already this year and the cost in Co2 bicycle inflator cylinders is getting ridiculous. It takes half a dozen to get a back tyre barely rideable.
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PostPosted: 15:32 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have the conti mobility kit supplied from Ford with my ST. Good piece of kit if you can get your hands on them and the dials are very accurate when checked against a digital gauge.
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PostPosted: 16:03 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
18 quid for a double dose of Puncturesafe and you willn't need a 'compact' anything.
Check your pressures at home and your off...

DOn't listen to the Sealant Haters... They only blow a lot of air.. Embarassed
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Andy_Pagin
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PostPosted: 16:26 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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18 quid for a double dose of Puncturesafe and you willn't need a 'compact' anything.


I've used those sealants and they're great for small punctures, but if I use them every time, at the rate I'm going there won't be any room for air in the tyre by the end of the year!
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PostPosted: 16:36 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PREMIUM-MINI-AIR-COMPRESSOR-12V-300PSI-21BAR-NEW-/121051086075?pt=UK_Air_Tools_and_Compressors&hash=item1c2f34fcfb


Is supposed to be the dogs danglies
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PostPosted: 18:53 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AirMan-Tour-52-074-011-Tyre-Pump/dp/B00B1ATMF2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371408239&sr=8-1&keywords=airman+tour

Airman tour gets a lot of good feedback on ADVrider forum by guys who air down and up for trail / highway (US forum), and there's a review on youtube for you to find.
A compact mountain bike pump could do the job?

BikeHut Travelling Track Bike Pump, or
Topeak Morph Mountain Bike Pump

They're both on Halfords website but the url codes are half a page long and I don't know how to do fancy embedding.
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Andy_Pagin
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've already got a bike hut compact pump/Co2. I used it for the first time last week and half a dozen Co2 bottles and two hundred pumps in air mode only got the back tyre up to 18 psi. I needed 36 psi. As it happened 18 psi was actually rideable at 30mph and got me four miles to a petrol station that had an air machine.
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PostPosted: 22:02 - 16 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
6 co bottles and pumping to get to 18psi?
I've not used co bottles before, but I'm pretty sure my kit's only got three. Are they really that bad?
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PostPosted: 03:29 - 17 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Andy_Pagin wrote:
Walloper wrote:
18 quid for a double dose of Puncturesafe and you willn't need a 'compact' anything.


I've used those sealants and they're great for small punctures, but if I use them every time, at the rate I'm going there won't be any room for air in the tyre by the end of the year!


Feck.... It's runflats you want or polymer gel fill... Smile

Have you tried riding along avoiding nails 'n' shite?
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PostPosted: 08:58 - 17 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
are any of these electric ones capable of popping the tyre back onto the bead?
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PostPosted: 10:14 - 17 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just use a manual bicycle pump and a Lidl digital pressure/depth gauge. It's good exercise Laughing

On a side note, does anyone do their own (permanent) repairs? If so what do you use? A lot of the plug kits available online are supposed to be a temporary thing. But I'm sick of paying £10-20 for bike shop plugs.
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PostPosted: 19:30 - 17 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I use a Tire Tackle kit, sticky rubber strips you push in with a huge darning needle thingy. As far as I'm concerned It's permanent.
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PostPosted: 04:00 - 18 Jun 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
UnspeedySam wrote:
I just use a manual bicycle pump and a Lidl digital pressure/depth gauge. It's good exercise Laughing

On a side note, does anyone do their own (permanent) repairs? If so what do you use? A lot of the plug kits available online are supposed to be a temporary thing. But I'm sick of paying £10-20 for bike shop plugs.


There is no 'permanent' repair.

All you can do is patch.

The nearest thing to 'permanent' woulf be a repair method that 'vulcanizes' the repair.

The problem is, the rubber in the tyre has been 'cured' by heat (or cooked). It is very difficult to stick things to this. Rubber cement only works as a glue. Vulcanizing is more specialist and can put a patch on that can stick better than cemented.

Some repairs are not succesful because the tyre compound has been over-cooked when run flat. It is not as flexible as a normal tyre then so more difficult to fix.

I wouldn't bother my arse vulcanizing or patching. Superstring works a treat. Two-Pack adhesive and some sort of string. (Possibly Kevlar.)

I have used the stuff made by the company who invented puncture repairs. Fucked if I can remember the bloody name right now. Embarassed
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