Has anyone used CO2 inflaters

[nevadazx12]

I was thinking a buy a set up, has anyone had the need to fix a flat on the road and use this type of inflator?  If you have what brand and how many cartridges were needed to fill a tire?

thanks

[redzgrider]

I keep a Genuine Innovations Ultraflate Plus, six 12 gm cartridges, and a string plug set in a small zip case in the side bag or in the area under the tail cover. Four 12 gms. will fill a sticky string plugged rear from flat to about 24 psi -- enough to ride carefully to real compressed air.
http://www.genuineinnovations.com/bicycle/mountain/ultraflate-plus-clone-2.html

[2talltim]

This..
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Slime-Tire-Top-Off-Inflator/16782755
and a plug kit on every bike i  have ever owned. never needed it for my bike but I've saved others asses a few times.

[nevadazx12]

Thanks, I ordered a unit that accepts either threaded or smooth cartridges plus a 6 pack.  Used to carry an old style inflater, that you screwed into a spark plug hole, but they were made for 14mm plugs.  Those were simpler times. But I have to admit that tubless tires and the plug kit sure make repairs possible without removing the tire.

[works4me]

I've got a small 12V compressor. It fits in the space
behind the battery. Never runs out of cartridges.
In a pinch can run off any 12V source.

[Strawboss]

I have used a type of goop shot into the tire to prevent flats, I've used CO2 inflators on the side of the road, and now, I have a small electrically powered compressor I will use along with a BMW type repair kit. CO2 types worked, kinda. After a VERY sharp learning curve 150 miles from home and maybe 50 miles from anywhere, I used two of the three in the kit I had to kinda get some air into the rear tire and limp, literally, to the nearest gas station to put some more air into the tire. I was headed to the national in CO from OH in a few months and I swore never to use something like that again. My experience only, many others will be different.

[enim57]

Thanks, I ordered a unit that accepts either threaded or smooth cartridges plus a 6 pack.  Used to carry an old style inflater, that you screwed into a spark plug hole, but they were made for 14mm plugs.  Those were simpler times. But I have to admit that tubless tires and the plug kit sure make repairs possible without removing the tire.

I've got one of them but it has adapters to suit all plug sizes.

Regards, Russell