used CO2 bottles

[Globalti]

I see them all over the place in Rusholme, behind the shops and restaurants. The cylinders are smaller than CO2 cylinders used by cyclists and a more silvery colour and seem to be quite thin metal as they crush easily under car tyres. So yes I reckon it's N2O or dinitrogen monoxide. Where do they buy them in such numbers?

Edit: Google found this. They are called whippits and are sold for whipped cream dispensers: http://justsayn2o.com/nitrous.obtain.html

To open the cylinder you need a cracker, see also Ebay.

 

[Drago]

Unscrupulous corner shop sellers flog them in bulk to Johnny Gashead and his chums. Because of the controls on psychoactive substances the Government have inadvertently created an underground economy where such items sold in bulk to youff sells at a premium, so it's a nice under the counter earner.

 

[winjim]

At two quid a balloon it's a nice little earner to pay for your real drugs.

 

[Globalti]

Wow, Ebay has them at £12.50 for 24, that's 52 pence each. The crackers are £2.99 each.

 

[Alan O]

I see plenty round the Scouse Riviera here. But as others say, they're always the more fragile silvery ones that are smaller than my CO2 cylinders.

 

[Siclo]

I see them all over the place in Rusholme, behind the shops and restaurants.

Have a ride down Moss Lane East where they've been patching the road by the brewery, fresh laid tarmac and the hot weather mean the damn things are embedded in the road surface, brings a new meaning to the term metalled road

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

small silver co2 bottles like the ones that fit in soda syphons or now in cyclists co2 pumps.
i have never seen anyone squirting a soda syphon at the side of the road. so i'm thinking its the cyclists you know.

I remember those too, my parents had a black one, in the late 70's. with gold trim!!

 

[Banjo]

I rode around part of the Dragon Sportive route the morning after the ride.

It was a pig stye of banana skins inner tubes gel wrappers and gas cannisters which of course were left by gas sniffing youths not saintly cyclists.

 

[Drago]

Perhaps gas sniffing youff also ride bikes?

 

[mikeymustard]

I rode around part of the Dragon Sportive route the morning after the ride.

It was a pig stye of banana skins inner tubes gel wrappers and gas cannisters which of course were left by gas sniffing youths not saintly cyclists.

banana skins and gas canisters? Maybe they're using whipped cream to make banana splits

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sportive

Not surprised

 

[Drago]

I remember those too, my parents had a black one, in the late 70's. with gold trim!!

Erm, is that the black and gold 'soda syphon' you found in your mum's bedside drawer?

 

[Gravity Aided]

I would think nitrogen, being a larger atom than oxygen, would hold pressure better and leak less in a tire.
None of that drug usage really evident over here, I guess too much opiate use going on.

 

[classic33]

If used to inflate tyres would the fairy be more likely to go for your tyres for her enjoyment?

Certainly be laughing having visited though.

 

[Threevok]

Don't get many of them here - probably because most of the idiots around here can't spell N2O

They are probably all wasting their time on NO2