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Transfer the air from your bike tires to the mattress...then you just have to worry about getting air back in the tires before you leave!
So if I bring my air mattress, will they lend a hand pumping it up at the tire check station? And if so, will that be open wednesday afternoon/ night when I arrive? (Early to volunteer of course!)
If not, anyone have any thoughts other than my unresponsive lungs?
Most of us carry some sort of air pump for the tires in case of a flat or tire repair on the road. What I did was make a small adapter from the air stem of an old tire tube and adapted a piece of rubber tubing so that while I'm setting up my tent etc., the pump inflates my air mattress. Try it, it works very well and you won't hyperventilate trying to blow that thing up. -G
Thanks for all the info. I too have a mini compressor I carry in case of a flat, but when I tried it in the garage... man it would have taken the entire rally to inflate the mattress, and most certainly burn out the pump. I like the one suggested at Wally world.. I'll have to check that out for size. And thanks for the suggestion of the tent fan... I just found one at Dicks Sporting for only $9.99
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4063183&ppp=36&cp=4406646.4413993.4414966.12706659
Can't WAIT for the rally!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I know.. worried about room. Maybe I'll get both and see what I have room for. Worse case, I'll go with the 10" and leave a bottle of JB at home. No... maybe not.
At every rally you can hear Coleman air mattress inflators that run on 4 D cells. You can buy one at Wally World. They also deflate your air mattress when you are ready to leave. I change my batteries every year and have had many others use it during the camping season. It has not failed to work in the last four years.
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It sure sounds like a good idea.
But how long does it take to inflate a TWIN size air mattress?
All (small) tire pumps can not be running for more than 10 min at the time.
I remember trying to inflate a Full size mattress with the AirMan compressor and it took a long time to do that which resulted in the overheating the compressor.
Here is the air pump from the Walmart for $8.86 that worked for me for the last 8-10 years www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8586941&findingMethod=rr and it also does a good job of deflating the mattress too.
But if anybody would like to go HIGH CLASS something like KELTY/KERMIT here is another one for $14.46 www.walmart.com/ip/High-Output-Air-Pump/10927631
P.S. Anybody needs to inflate a mattress of charge a cell phone or a camera, please stop at my tent... my bike has it all and it runs on 2 (TWO ODYSSEY) batteries.