Northern California - Interested in a local CO2 cartridge "group buy"?

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td.tony
04-19-09, 07:15 PM
16g threaded to be exact. I'm thinking of buying the box of 30 on ebay for $39 total including shipping, but thats just way too many for one person. What do you guys think of setting up a sort of "group buy"?
I live in Union City so it would be local pickup only. If I can get enough people to buy at least 15 cartridges, then I'd be willing to order it. Some quick math shows that a pack of 4 carts would cost $5.20.
Or maybe I should just order now and keep them all to myself :).

I didn't think I would mind buying a cart for $3.50 since a flat would be so rare, but today I got a flat about 1-2 miles from my house. It's just close enough that I didn't want to waste $3.50 just to get home quicker, but just far enough to get blisters on my heel from walking in my biking shoes, thank goodness I wear MTB shoes with eggbeater pedals. So, I just thought to myself if a cart only cost $1.30 I'd have probably saved a lot of time, and prevented my feet from getting sore. But then again if I made more money I probably would have used my last CO2 cart that I had in my pocket :P

If it doesn't generate enough interest, can you guys reccomend any good small hand pumps??:D


BlastRadius
04-20-09, 09:03 AM
This works great and will never run out.
http://greenfishsports.com/product/412_417_420-Mini-Pumps/2771-Crank-Brothers-Bike-Pump-Crank-Brothers-Power-Pump-Ultra.html

kster
04-20-09, 09:39 AM
The Hayward Cyclepath has some 16g C02 cartridges that come out to a little over $2 each with a club discount (like FFBC). I usually grab a bunch of these.


td.tony
04-21-09, 02:41 PM
thanks for the info about cyclepath!

That crank bros. pump is just what I'm looking for, I want something very small to put in my jersey pocket.