air pump

[robin]

Heading out to INZANE this year and i'm looking for a compact air pump to take with me any suggestions on one?

[Grandpot]

We had a thread on this last month.  Do a search for "Tire Repair".  Has some good info.

[Zorba]

Just take a plug kit and a couple of those CO/2 little cans to air (gas)your tire up, they work great and take up no room, have gloves on when you use them!

[R J]

Just take a plug kit and a couple of those CO/2 little cans to air (gas)your tire up, they work great and take up no room, have gloves on when you use them!

Hey Zorba, how many of those little rascals does it take to air up a tire?   I'm betting more than a couple of them.

I'll use my Wally World mini pump, electric off the bike, and probably not take up as much space as your CO/2 cartidges needed.........

You run out of capsules, and I still got a mini pump to finish the job....

[Disco]

I got the Stop and Go Pocket Plugger and a BestRest Products CyclePump before last year's InZane.

[Jess from VA]

Heading out to INZANE this year and i'm looking for a compact air pump to take with me any suggestions on one?

Here's what many carry. It will plug right in to the SAE style pigtail already on the bike/battery for a battery tender.

http://www.hondadirectlineofshadyside.com/stores/product.asp?pid=6293&str=2&ID=449398947

Instead of a bike kit, I bought my tire repair tools separately because the little screwdriver-like auger and plugger that come with them can be a bear to work thru a steel belted tire....you want the bit larger T-handle auger and plugger, ropey string plugs and glue. 

I took the  metal/plastic cover off my Slime pump (and threw it away), which reduced it in size by about half.  So the air pump, T-handle tire tools, glue, plugs...the whole kit fits inside the little zipper case that came with the Slime pump.

[fudgie]

I got a little slime one from auto Zone. Compact and fits good in the bag.

[Al in Arkansas]

I have this one and love it!  A bit quieter and maybe better built than other portable units I've looked at.  Probably not as compact as some, but with the storage space of my Interstate it works.


Here's the link to it on Harbor Freight's site.
http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/itemdisplay/displayItem.do?itemid=96068

Al

[Old Geezer Richard]

Hey Robin from my experience having a flat on the rear tire , my little pump from Harbor Freight and my plug kit with the  reamer and T-handle and those stringy plugs that have that gummy stuff on them worked like a champ ..... the whole secret to plugging a tire is the glue ..... I use the glue in the small round can with my plugs  , just dip them , stick , twist and pull out and your in business ..... the only different thing I do different is I trim the plug as flush as possible and I lite the glue that has come out with my lighter and I ( guess you might say its vulcanized ) let it burn for a few seconds and blow it out and hook up my compressor and your on the road again ..... works for me , it sure beats sitting on the side of the road ...... Thanks Old Geezer Richard

[glassguy]

One thing to remember....when the rear tire goes completely flat and the bike is on the side stand, the bike will fall over on it's right side, or at least that is what mine wanted to do.  I used a tire plug kit and the co2 cylinders that I picked up at a bicycle shop.  I needed at least 4 of the cylinders for my rear tire.

[Master Blaster]

Problem with the Co2 cyls is what if you plug and still have a slow leak, or find you had more than one hole.  With a mini compressor its no big deal.  Its happened to me.  Once I did 3500 miles airing every 300 miles.  Once I was stuck in a very bad part of Memphis with several holes in the rear tire.  Bad guys were circling like buzzards.  Compressor let me air and run till got squirlly, air and run again, and again untill I got in a safe part of town.