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Portable tire inflator options?

NorCal Factory

NorCal Factory

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Nov 25, 2003
Location
Los Gatos
Moto(s)
KTM SuperDuke GT, Aprilia RSV4 RF, Aprilia Tuano, Husky TE 300 I
Name
Tom
I have the small inflator bought from Cycle Gear years ago that plugs into the trickle charger plug for power.
I want to get another for my dirt bike that uses tubeless tires. You use plugs for those since there is no tube. It needs to be small and light.

I have been looking for another inflator like the first one, but they don’t seem to make them anymore. There are a lot of fairly small battery powered ones, but I am concerned they may not be able to pump up the tire multiple times. I have seen the need to pump up a street tire multiple times to get out of remote areas, three times already.

Does anyone have a source for the trickle charger powered inflators, or have enough experience with the battery powered units to know if you could pump up a MC tire three times?
 
I carry this pump with me always on the street in my flat repair kit...small and powerful. Beats CO2 cartridges. Not sure how much you carry in the dirt.

Nice Inflator
 
i have one similar to this one that i bought at costco last year.

on maybe 75% charge, it's got enough to fill one of the 275/65-18's (aka...not quite 33's) on my truck from dead flat to ~35psi, and it charges from USB.
 
Aerostich has excellent tire inflators.

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Pumps & Air Compressors

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I've completely moved on from electric pumps to USB chargeable pumps.

$35 gets you this Cycplus - I think sometimes you get what you pay for and I don't love this one. I carry it always on my 1090


$60-$100 gets you this little Cycplus. It's slow but good for topping off. I wouldn't want to air up from flat, but have used it in the field when I had a flat that required airing up every few miles to get home.


$50 gets you the Fanttik one at Costco. It works great for cars and bikes. I take it on Dual Sport rides now after using a similar one that @bananachunks carries when I needed to air back up on the way back to camp several times because of - yeah another flat.
Fanttik makes a lot of pumps

You don't have the break the bank to get a pump that gets used occasionally.

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There are quite a few options from Slime. You can get one that works for as low as twenty bucks. They're usually designed to plug into a lighter socket. I had to rewire mine to plug into the Battery Tender connector - I have one of those on both of my bikes.

I used to air down off road, then air back up once I was back to pavement, but I've determined that the traction difference isn't worth the bother, so I quit doing that. I have also given up on hauling around the stuff I would need to fix a flat. The one time I've manage to get a flat tire out on a ride, I rode on the back of another XR650L 20 miles back to my house, grabbed another rear wheel, then had my wife drive me back to swap tires.

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I have the cyclegear's stockton portable, it can actually fit under the Z400's rear seat.

www.cyclegear.com

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Honestly, in a pinch a bicycle pump will do the trick for a dirt tire. We did the rear on my buddies bike and had it up to 17 psi in about 10 minutes or so (split between two of us). I always carry a few co2 cartridges just in case.
 
CO2 cartridges suck. They never get your tire up to more than about half way. And once you use them up, like your patch didn’t seal properly, your shit out of luck.

Electric pumps are far superior.
 
Hence the bicycle pump. co2 can be used to get some initial volume, bike pumps tend to go to 60 - 120 psi so they're good for achieving final pressure, and aside from a tired arm, they never run out.
 
Just make sure you maintain and check your bicycle hand pump. I've had one on the bike for years, and when I went to use it there were some missing parts on the tip that made it unusable.
 
What ever you buy make sure it will work on your bike. I carried a CO2 set up for years. Had a flat when I got off of work and the the CO2 gun would not fit on the rear of my ST1100. Went to a pump.
 
So today... I took the 1090 out to go to work and needed to top up both tires. My front has always had a slow leak anyway.

These small re-chargeable pumps are so freaking handy. No wires, no fuss, and a bike pump isn't great for the higher pressures on the big bike. I will use my stand up bicycle pump for the little bikes though at home when needed.



 
bikeama said:
What ever you buy make sure it will work on your bike. I carried a CO2 set up for years. Had a flat when I got off of work and the the CO2 gun would not fit on the rear of my ST1100. Went to a pump.
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I have had the unfortunate occasion so test my setup on a few bikes :laughing
 
Cabrito said:
...and a bike pump isn't great for the higher pressures on the big bike.
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Most bicycle tires need about 60 psi or higher. I would say that a bike pump isn't great for the higher volume of a motorcycle tire, they can easily handle the pressure.
 
I use a USB Rechargeable battery operated pump that also plugs into a cigarette lighter. It has programmable pressure settings which is handy.
 
For home use, topping off tires for a ride, i used a Blackburn floor pump. It was quick and only took a few strokes.
 
Cabrito said:
So today... I took the 1090 out to go to work and needed to top up both tires. My front has always had a slow leak anyway.

These small re-chargeable pumps are so freaking handy. No wires, no fuss, and a bike pump isn't great for the higher pressures on the big bike. I will use my stand up bicycle pump for the little bikes though at home when needed.



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Handy is less steps, no need to use a gauge.
 
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