Originally Posted by
NOLABIKER
Hi everyone. After getting a flat today, I am in the market for a CO2 inflator. I was lucky that I was only 6 miles from home and my wife was nice enough to come get me with the car. I was planning to get ready to commute to work a couple of days a week and actually was going to buy some tubes to keep on the bike tomorrow. Ironic?
Anyway, I saw the inflator pictured below at Wally World today. Any thoughts on this brand? From the information on the back of the package, looks like I would need two of the 16 gram cartridges to fill my 26" x 2.00" tubes. Max pressure on my tires say 65 psi. I have been keeping them at 60.
Is it as easy as the directions say it is? Seems a hell of a lot easier than some silly hand pump.
Some inflators are built better than others, the cheap ones have plastic bits and metal pins that can fall out with the normal jarring that goes with cycling, rendering them useless.
Keep in mind that once you inflate a tire with CO2 it will seep out even quicker than air pumped in will, so you should view CO2 inflation only as a temporary measure to get you home, then evacuate whatever is left and pump up with air instead, it will last much longer than CO2.