New pump and Tyre levers needed

rob39

Punctured today and pump gave up the ghost with only 50psi in the tyre and old tired tyre levers are now done. Anyone recommend a new HP Mini pump and decent tyre levers (700cc tyres)

paul_the_pedaller

I've just bought some Vittoria Italia levers, couldn't resist the colours and they're nice and wide, clip together well and coped with some tight Conti very well.
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fenix

I just use any old tyre levers...

Lezyne Pressure Drive seems to be good in my experience of pumps.

(not as good as the old frame pumps mind you !)

Bobbinogs

Most of the Topeak range work really well, specially the morph variants. The Lezyne ones are very well designed and light but slightly pricey...and the aluminium threads are prone to corrosion if, like me, you stick em on your frame and ride in all weathers.

bbrap

I have a Topeak Pocket Rocket & a Race Rocket HP. I find the Race Rocket easier to use as it has a rubber tube which connects the head to the valve. The Pocket Rocket locks onto the valve with a lever action and is secure, I just find it harder to use when pumping. All the mini pumps seem to need a good few strokes to get up to pressure, but they do get there in the end. As said above, a good old frame pump works far better than the tiny offerings, just looks wrong on a modern bike.

froze

I have several different pumps including a couple of the Topeak, a Race Rocket Hp and the Road Morph G; I also have a couple of Lezyne's, a Road Drive L and a Alloy Drive; and a couple of others.

Depending on the type of tires you use will depend on the pump you want to use. Of the two brands there pretty much the same in quality but I lean more towards Lezyne for ease of pumping, but more about that in a bit. If you have a road bike with high pressure tires the Lezyne Road Drive is an superb pump BUT ONLY IF you get the largest size of the 3 sizes offered, yes it is a larger but still small enough where it doesn't look like a tank on the side of your bike nor is it heavy, but you can actually reach 110 PSI with less effort than either Lezyne or any Topeak except for one, little later about that, this pump only works with Presta valves. The Lezyne Alloy Drive is made for fat tires and will not work for high pressure tires but it does work with both Schrader and Presta. The Topeak Race Rocket HP is much more of a struggle to get to 110 PSI than the Lezyne Road Drive but at least it will reach 110 the vast majority of mini pumps on the market will not!, it does work with both Schrader and Presta.

Now for the odd one out, the Topeak Road Morph G (G stands for having a PSI gauge). This pump is sweet! However it's more of a half frame pump and not a mini pump thus it weighs more, but it gets to 110 psi and more with very little effort and less strokes than any pump on the market except for a full on frame pump. It does convert from Schrader to Presta, but the the looks of this pump is ungainly looking on a bike and the mounting hardware is not real effective at keeping the pump from moving on a bike frame. This pump due to it's ability to pump a lot of air in less strokes is my go to pump for touring, I then take a small mini pump as a back up. The Road Morph G has a little gauge that works by using a bead in a tube, it's sort of accurate but you need to check with a known accurate gauge to see how far off it is and remember the difference; it also has a fold out foot peg and a fold out handle which makes it all the more easy to operate, similar to having a small floor pump on your bike.

All the above pumps mentioned come with an air hose, the Road Morph G is stored on the outside which is one of the reasons it looks so ugly, the others are stored inside the pump which cleans up the look. The pumps with air hoses work better than a direct connected pump especially when you get to high pressure and are straining trying to get up to 100 psi because most people as the strain to pump will start to "saw" the pump back and forth and in doing so the valve stem is moving back and forth which can easily rip the base of the stem from the tube, with the hose as long as you keep slack on the hose you'll be fine.

ayjaycee

Don't know about the pump question as I use a track pump at home and CO2 on the road but I would thoroughly recommend Campagnolo tyre levers (https://www.evanscycles.com/campagnolo- ... Gwod-QICwg). I guess that some might regard them as expensive but I rate them very highly - they are strong and do the job (for me anyway!). When others such as the generic ones that seem to come with some puncture kits bend and fail, these campag ones just let me get on with it..

northpole

The Lezyne Road Drive has served me very well over the years. Only demerit I would highlight is that in the last year or so I have sometimes had a problem when unscrewing the tube from the presta valve when the valve head has unscrewed itself. I'm not sure if others have experienced this problem - whether my technique has changed or if I've bought a bad batch of tubes. I haven't done anything to investigate further which is a bit rubbish/ fatalist on my part!!

For tyre levers, I've found the Specialised levers which magnetically stick together in pairs have been pretty faultless and feeling a strong as I think you could need. Much better than others I have used which either had too narrow a head (fear of pinching tube) or felt far too flimsy.

Peter

Moonbiker

Pedro lvrs are nice

Hanners

Just get a frame pump and pedros levers, the frame pump will deliver on the required psi mini pumps are more a get you home option imo
Plus a frame pump looks old school cool the silca one is the dogs

Man Of Lard

Topeak 1.2 levers here (in the garage) 1.1 for the road. Only slightly more effort to use the 1.1 compared to the 1.2 but a considerable volume reduction in the pocket area...