Air compressor, any recommendations? Am going to go tubeless, I have a track pump but understand an air compressor is the way forward. Can you recommend a good and also cost effective option?
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Well, I'm not an expert at this, but I've done several tyres now without a compressor.
CO2 canisters are about £1 each, so you can inflate quite a lot of tyres before a decent compressor would be cheaper.
It also turns out that you can inflate Maxxis tyres on Stan's Arch rims with just a track pump, lots of soapy water and some frenetic pumping.
I haven't tried them, but don't Specialized claim that their 2bliss tyres (Captain, Eskar, etc) can be seated just with a track pump?
Going to be running Nobby nics snakeskin 2.4s on crest rims. If anyone has dcperiance of them. No idea if it's true but I heard that the gas cartridges do bad things to the latex? Suppose I could use a cartridge for getting it seated , loose the air then add latex and pump with the track pump?
Use the CO2 to get it seated. Then let it out and put in normal air and sealant.
But crest rims might just work with a trackpump.
I haven't tried them, but don't Specialized claim that their 2bliss tyres (Captain, Eskar, etc) can be seated just with a track pump?
Yep, tried this at the weekend and found 2bliss Eskars went up very easily on Stans 355 rims with a track pump.
looked at this a little and it seems the Compressors Aldi sell are the way ahead for price v performance.
You get them for half the price of what you'd buy otherwise, the downside is you have to wait for the offer to come back round.
There are still compressors hanging around in some branches of Aldi I think. Have a look around all your local ones.
Mine (an SIP Hurricane I think) cost about £70 off Ebay, it's only a 25 litre receiver IIRC and fairly low powered but enough for motorbike tyres never mind pushbike tyres.
I've tried a couple of times with CO2 cans when a trackpump failed but without any luck, it seems to me that if a good pump doens't do it CO2 doesn't do it either. But ymmv.
My Aldi one is 3 years old and still works fine. Used more than you would think for all sorts of things. Heavy and noisy though.
It's much easier with a compressor, spent a couple of hours yesterday messing around with a track pump and could not get the tryes to inflate at all (2.4 conti mtn kings on mavic 719 with stans rim strips) went round to see a mate tonight with a compressor (he builds very high powered engines for other peoples fords so has a rather well equiped garage) went up first try with the air line.
Hmm might have a poke round Aldi this week. Cheers all
