Overview - RideAir Compressed Air Capsule - Lovely Bicycle World

The RideAir Compressed Air Capsule is designed to be a transportable quick inflation system; appropriate for seating tubeless tyres, changing CO2 cartridges, and facilitating quick inflation in pit-stop race situations.

It's an fascinating KickStarter idea, and one which I used to be eager to check out.

Operate

The performance of the capsule is easy: you flip open the rubber lid, and utilizing a ground pump or compressor, pressurise the canister to round 200 PSI (13.5 Bar). You'll be able to then safely retailer the canister till you want it. To inflate a tyre, you screw the hose onto the valve (Presta or Schrader), and press the silver button on the canister to launch all or a part of the cost.

It's successfully like a chargeable CO2 canister, besides that it makes use of regular air slightly than carbon dioxide.

The capsule is simple to make use of, and robustly made. Releasing the stress cost is surprisingly simple to manage too; though there is a component of guessing your tyre stress, because the gauge on the canister displays the remaining canister stress, not that of the tyre.

Transportability

When the RideAir Capsule arrived for testing, I used to be initially stunned on the dimension of it. Contemplating it's a product that's designed to be transportable, it's clearly lots bigger than a CO2 canister, at across the similar dimension as a 750 ml water bottle.

The caveat to that's that after all a bigger cartridge permits larger air quantity. A completely pressurised RideAir tank will fill two street tyres simply, and would possibly even stretch to 2 MTB or hybrid tyres.

The RideAir capsule remains to be transportable after all, regardless of its dimension. It's designed to sit down comfortably in a bottle cage holder; and as such it is going to have specific enchantment to commuters and leisure cyclists, who do not usually want to make use of their second bottle cage.

If you'll be able to liberate your second bottle cage, then this can be a wonderful means of avoiding the necessity to use CO2 canisters for a quick inflation in your commute. It would get you into work on time, even when it's important to cease to repair a flat.

Tubeless tyres

The opposite use of the RideAir Canister is for seating tubeless tyres. Some time again I invested in a Lezyne Digital Strain Overdrive Pump for seating tubeless tyres; it makes an enormous distinction, and takes out a number of the trouble typically encountered with making an attempt to get tubeless tyres to pop onto the rim.

The RideAir Capsule may very well be utilized in an analogous approach: you cost up the canister, then launch all of the air into the tubeless tyre, to create a sudden rush of air that may pop the tyre bead into the rim.

The RideAir Capsule works nicely for this; admittedly the push of air shouldn't be fairly because the bigger as from the Lezyne pump, however I have never had any issues utilizing it to get tubeless tyres fitted.

The RideAir definitely has the benefit over CO2 canisters for the aim of tubeless seating, as a result of CO2 tends to remedy Latex sealant in a short time, whereas the RideAir makes use of pure air, so there aren't any issues there.

General

To sum up, the RideAir Capsule is an revolutionary, but easy design. I can see that for commuters, brief rides, and at occasions, it may very well be an actual asset.

The 'RideAir with Lock' model that I examined right here additionally has an built-in cable lock; this may very well be actually helpful for securing the canister to the bike, or for securing different objects like a helmet.