I inflated my Fatty Rumpkin with a small topeak hand pump in jjust two or three minutes. I then rode another 15 miles on it with no problems whatsoever. I don't see a need for cartridge inflators. If you ride in remote areas there won't be a readily available source for cartridges
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:15 AM, islaysteve <alkire...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > Wow, Thanks for all of the kind responses and good info. I guess I'll > have to rethink my ideas about weight and tools! Seriously, I will > carry enough to change or patch the tube and do many other repairs > (adjustments). Right now my rides are so ridiculously close to home > that it won't matter much. Right now I have rather bulky CO2 inflator > that uses the smaller cartridges, and I carry two cartridges. Should > I look to get one that uses the larger carts; and if so, do you have > any recommendations on which one? Or put another way, would I need > two of the smaller carts to adequately fill a Nifty Swifty? (33 mm). > > I appreciate the history behind naming the bike. That's the kind of > info that I was hoping to get here. I haven't been a Reader reader > for long, so I'd have to do quite a bit of combing through them find > out this kind of stuff. Not to mention buying the CD. But these > comments make me look a bit more kindly on the graphics. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
