Barney’s at the NEC in Birmingham, bringing you all the new and hotness he comes across on his travels.
The Bimp’air is a French device which is coming into production later this year, and it’s pretty interesting…
It’s basically a refillable compressed air canister, which generates 11 litres of compressed air at 49bar (49 bar = 686psi). Which seems like rather a lot – it’s easily enough, apparently, to pump up your shock, too, As well as letting you inflate your tubeless tyres with ease, naturally. The canister is hermetically sealed, so it holds the ‘charge’ indefinitely, and it can be recharged in two ways:
The first way involves attaching a device to your front wheel, and riding for five minutes. The rotation of your wheel starts the compressor, which charges the canister.
Neat. This little lot will set you back €299.
The less labour intensive way of compressing the air is using an electrical compressor:
The electrical compressor and canister will set you back €399.
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Is there a decimal point missing from these prices?
Does anyone have an adaptor for an old Sodastream bottle?
Costs more than a compressor! A very expensive solution to a problem which already has many cheaper solutions.
Years ago (20) I cut up an old broken sodastream and glued/ jubilee clipped a foot pump air hose to the outlets pipe. Brilliant, super efficient co2 pump (not small enough for a jersey pocket or saddle pack though!). It would even pump up a car tyre from scratch.