Tesco track pump

Ollieda
Ollieda Posts: 1,010
edited July 2009 in Road buying advice
Went into Tesco when I was up in Newcastle a few weeks ago and I saw they were selling track pumps (just had loads of them loose in a box on the shelf) for £9.99

Anyone brought one of these? Any good?

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  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    i've not got one - but is looks amazingly like the blackburn track pump I have that cost £24!!

    and I mean - amazingly like it!

    My brother in law has one and seems to rate it as much as you could rate any pump - i.e. it keeps his tyres at 100+psi - can't go wrong at a tenner can you?
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,334
    It's a pump... how wrong can a pump be?

    Splash that hardly earned tenner with no regrets...
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  • FlamingTberto
    FlamingTberto Posts: 41
    I'm off to Tesco at lunchtime in Camberley then to try and find one.

    Offcourse it would be nice to have a branded pump that costs between £25 - £40 but a pump is a pump at the end of the day.

    I looked at the Bell track pumps in Asda Walmart last saturday and alsmot made off with one that was £15. Looked decent enough.
    2009 Kona Zing - second ever racer and follows my 5 speed downshifters Raleigh Milk Race of 1987ish :-)
  • David-Witts
    David-Witts Posts: 80
    Purchased 1 last year at a bargain price. It pumps!, has dual fitting head, so nice and easy connection to presta and schrader valves and it has a pressure gauge. Shaft has gone a little rusty though. Davy
  • FlamingTberto
    FlamingTberto Posts: 41
    If I manage to pick one up today I might lube the shaft to give a bit of protection.
    2009 Kona Zing - second ever racer and follows my 5 speed downshifters Raleigh Milk Race of 1987ish :-)
  • snig
    snig Posts: 428
    check to see if it will pump up to the pressure you need! some cheap pumps will not.I got a joe blow from tredz it was only £30 that was £10 cheaper than most places.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Got one last year and its been great. 18 strokes to 100psi, 120 psi no problem. No rust on mine(mind you I keep it in the car) What more could I ask of it.
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    i got one from an Argos sale last year for £4.99 and it goes to 120psi no bother. Chuffed.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Wilkinson's do a track pump for under a tenner, I've had one for about 4 years and I can get 110psi easy.
  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    dmclite wrote:
    i got one from an Argos sale last year for £4.99 and it goes to 120psi no bother. Chuffed.

    maybe i got a duffer - but a few years ago my first attempt at getting a cheap track pump was a £12 argos one - it was absolute crap! - it took ages and couldn't get my tires above about 80 psi - took it straight back it was worse than useless!

    That was when I bought the blackburn - and I swear this tesco one is the same with a different logo.

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