NEC Cycle Show 2015 – Bimp’air – Singletrack World Magazine

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:

This bit converts your wheel’s rotation into something useful…

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.

…and this bit pushes air into 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.

For more details, click here.

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

Comments (4)

ScotRoutesScotRoutes September 25, 2015 at 11:39 am

Is there a decimal point missing from these prices?

igmigm September 25, 2015 at 11:43 am

Does anyone have an adaptor for an old Sodastream bottle?

footflapsfootflaps September 25, 2015 at 2:33 pm

Costs more than a compressor! A very expensive solution to a problem which already has many cheaper solutions.

burko73burko73 September 28, 2015 at 8:46 am

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.

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