Ryder airtank 2.0 problem

[Reinardt van Heerden]

4 hours ago, MORNE said:

yea all good, but good luck seating a tyre with your compressor out in the bush or late at night when everyone is sleeping? i jsut throw my pump in the car when i go on trips 😄 

I used to own a 100L compressor....and got rid of it purely in consideration of how noisy the thing was for the people around me. I work on my stuff at night or in the early hours of the morning. So just didnt make sense as i 'couldn't' use it anyway.  The smaller ones are even worse because they are ALWAYS busy topping up. Yes i'm the guy who frowns at you for starting up you generator for a mere 2h loadshedding window. I wonder how many people know that once you get a noise complaint submitted to counsil for operating a generator...it's not as simple anymore as just opening your garage and switching the thing on....it involves spending money on noise dampening, measuring dB levels etc etc.

The airtank 2.0 is as good a floor pump as you can buy. I got mine for R1300 ish using some google foo and haggling skills at CWC.  

I got mine from bike addict for the same price. Cwc's price is almost 2000 now

[Mongoose!]

Back in the day I have used the Plastic Coke bottle hack (or botch) 

mine had an extra layer protection as it was placed inside a piece of drainpipe.

Thick overhaul / gloves / full face motorcycle helmet and a long valve pipe to always pump it up behind a corner. 

This threat makes me want to try the fire extinguisher hack 🤔

Edited Friday at 01:43 PM by Mongoose!

[betaboy]

10 hours ago, MORNE said:

I can get mine to 240…my wife cant. Make of that what you must 😅

i almost always use it in air tank mode because its so much faster to fully inflate a tyre. Sounds like yours is defective or has a leak. Does it work as a normal pump? But yea, just go swop it dor a new one. 

..you dropping Easter Eggs already. 🤭

[Wannabe]

1 hour ago, Mongoose! said:

Back in the day I have used the Plastic Coke bottle hack (or botch) 

mine had an extra layer protection as it was placed inside a piece of drainpipe.

Thick overhaul / gloves / full face motorcycle helmet and a long valve pipe to always pump it up behind a corner. 

This threat makes me want to try the fire extinguisher hack 🤔

I have both the Airtank, and the Extinguisher hack. (cobbled together myself)

Airtank does not work, can't even inflate a road bike tire (only pffff and nothing else) Removed the hose and inflator head to add to the extinguisher. Now that thing works like a bomb (lol) Only hassle is to inflate it with the floorpump before being able to use it. But one charge can seat two Mtb tires.

[ChrisF]

6 hours ago, MORNE said:

yea all good, but good luck seating a tyre with your compressor out in the bush or late at night when everyone is sleeping? i jsut throw my pump in the car when i go on trips 😄 

I used to own a 100L compressor....and got rid of it purely in consideration of how noisy the thing was for the people around me. I work on my stuff at night or in the early hours of the morning. So just didnt make sense as i 'couldn't' use it anyway.  The smaller ones are even worse because they are ALWAYS busy topping up. Yes i'm the guy who frowns at you for starting up you generator for a mere 2h loadshedding window. I wonder how many people know that once you get a noise complaint submitted to counsil for operating a generator...it's not as simple anymore as just opening your garage and switching the thing on....it involves spending money on noise dampening, measuring dB levels etc etc.

The airtank 2.0 is as good a floor pump as you can buy. I got mine for R1300 ish using some google foo and haggling skills at CWC.  

 

Have to agree with @MORNE

 

I had the 25 liter model.

 

It WORKS for seating tubeless tyres.  Very handy for drying chains. Excellent for blowing on silicone grips.  Simply HANDY tool to have.

 

But very noisy.

 

I ended up buying an oil-less compressor ... very dissapointed in the noise levels !!!

 

 

You need to go up one notch in the price range .... and TEST it before buying.  Not all oil-less compressors are silent

 

 

 

Yes, I do have the Ryder airtank pump in the car for use at events 

[MORNE]

40 minutes ago, Wannabe said:

I have both the Airtank, and the Extinguisher hack. (cobbled together myself)

Airtank does not work, can't even inflate a road bike tire (only pffff and nothing else) Removed the hose and inflator head to add to the extinguisher. Now that thing works like a bomb (lol) Only hassle is to inflate it with the floorpump before being able to use it. But one charge can seat two Mtb tires.

Sounds like you have a dud too. You guys are going to make me make a video of it arent you?😅 Mine seats and inflates a 2.5 mtb tyre halfway on a charge. 2 x  charges gets you up to 30psi no issue.

[RobynE]

Speaking of pumps this is very handy and the battery lasts really well. Not nearly as noisy as other small compressors I’ve had and you can preset to whatever you need and leave it to do its thing. 
 

Lumeo pump