RideAir compressed air canister fills tires immediately without CO2 waste

Great idea!!! Although I bet the mass majority of people will think this is a magical, flat repair device. There’s no shortage of people that don’t have pumps, come into a bike shop and pump up their tires that have obvious pinch flats or punctures. Oh, I’ll just pump harder…they keep doing it.

Anyhow, I personally wouldn’t want to give up a water bottle but still a cool idea. If something like this gets made smaller, or could hold pressure for two tires(you never know), I’d think about getting one

A seemingly cool idea, let down by brutal realities.
1. Weight & bulk: even though it’s aluminum this thing will be heavy, like large U-Lock or filled water bottle heavy, not weight weenie ” I can feel a 10 gram difference in bike weight” heavy. Also it is taller than a standard water bottle which makes it a tight fit on small frames, although you could use a triathlon style seat mounted cage.
2. Filling difficulty: while 145 psi is attainable on many home and shop compressors, gas station compressors for car tires won’t get there and you still won’t have enough pressure to inflate a road tire to 100psi. To do that you need to fill the Rideair to 200psi which will require a 2 stage compressor, most commonly found in dive shops.
3. Lack of volume and pressure, this won’t fully inflate high pressure road tires or large volume MTB tires, so it’s useless for quick top ups because high pressures are where it fails.
In terms of weight, cost and bulk, you would be far better off investing a little more time and the same money in a good high capacity mini pump like a Topeak Morph series or one of the Lezynes. If you want instant inflation of high volume tires, try a Genuine Innovations Big Air canister, which uses propane instead of CO2.

Sweet pipe bomb.

You could get it up to 300 PSI with a Specialized AirTool UHP. That’s only a $90 add-on! I’m sure it won’t take 300 pumps to get to 300 PSI either. Probably at least 400.

for the beach cruiser gloryhound who has it all / is looking to end it all

Can you fill that mini-keg with beer?

@PK, I meant half of that pinkbike sweaty pump

#1 Co2 cartridges can be recycled and use co2 that otherwise was destined for the atmosphere anyway, so at least its captured until you need to use it. Even at two 12 grams per 29er tire I’d need to experience 28 flats requiring fixing while not at home for this thing to pay itself off, which is likely to happen sometime around the year 2030 at the rate I experience flats out in the trails or on the road.

#2 Refillable Co2 and HPA tanks already exist for the Airsoft/Paintball/Airgun industries, not to mention Scuba diving and companies offer valve adapters for them to inflate tires with. A 13ci 3000 psi tank is about the size of a water bottle too, and will fill MANY tires for a $1 fill of air at a paintball or dive shop.

Always amazed at the many neg comments on ever innovative product shown on BR. First, as this evolves, weight, cost will come down. First cell phones were the size of a shoe. Second, how many of you recycle your CO2 canisters? Get real. How many do you think end up in landfills? Last, any bike shop would love having customers coming in to fill these things up, gets them in the door. I know our shop would.

This is a smart product, one that hopefully will evolve to a practical, commonly used accessories that is as much of the bike scene as seat bags and water bottle cages.

Credit to the innovators!

Too big.

i’d like to see a 1, 2, and 3 meter drop test onto a spike.

i’ve definitely ejected water bottles at high enough speeds to explode the caps.

Um, ridiculously big, I’m not carrying that around just in case I get a flat. make a CO2 cartridge size one with a digital pressure guage then you have my business.