Pump - recommendations

POHB

On 18 Jun, 22:00, Andy Morris <AndyMor...@DeadSpam.com> wrote:
> One bike One pump is the only way to avoid being up fairy lane with no pump.

Or fit Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres and never have punctures

Roger Merriman

POHB <google@hayward.uk.net> wrote:

> On 18 Jun, 22:00, Andy Morris <AndyMor...@DeadSpam.com> wrote:
> > One bike One pump is the only way to avoid being up fairy lane with no pump.
>
> Or fit Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres and never have punctures

that is my choice at least for my work bike, it does have various pumps
and what not in the paniers as the weight is hardly a issue with that
bike.

roger
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Alan Braggins

In article <6bujk0F3e5e8eU1@mid.individual.net>, Dave Larrington wrote:
>In news:20080619085143.77d76691@bluemoon,
>Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:31:19 +0100
>> "Dave Larrington" <smert.spamionam@privacy.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Unless one has a Several of bicycles with widely differing seat tube
>>> lengths, in which case it may end up being Four True Pumps, with all
>>> the extra expense that this entails.
>>>
>> Get a pump to fit the smallest frame (under the top tube for a bit
>> more length) then fit pump pegs to the other frames?
>
>Fail. While I /have/ tried this, the under-top-tube mounting was never
>secure enough to hold the pump in place without the additional support of a
>couple of toe straps.

I have a small lock held on the top-tube with a hose clip (with the bit
with the screwdriver slot hidden by the lock when it's done up), which
holds the pump on securely. Sadly, LBS that sold it hadn't seen one for
years when I asked about buying another for a different bike.

Though part of the point is to make it easier to leave the pump on the
bike all the time, so it doesn't really help with the Several of bikes
(probably easier to undo than a couple of toeclips though). And it does
mean that if you get a puncture when you have forgotten your keys, you
are buggered (hasn't happened yet, but no doubt it will one day).
(In my case, the bike came with a pump, and years later when that cracked
it now has a cheap non-HPX Zefal, because that was what LBS had in stock
(and it's adequate for emergency use, similar to the original pump).)

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:52:19 +0100, "Dave Larrington"
<smert.spamionam@privacy.net> said in
<6buikeF3dv6k7U2@mid.individual.net>:

>I contend that this
>is a waste of money, natural resources and vintage port.

Have some madeira, m'dear.

Guy
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Andrew Price

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:29:57 +0100, bugbear
<bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:

>> Or an SKS "Wese"
>
>I'm not sure a name quite so like "wheeze"
>is slick marketing!

It's German, so it isn't pronounced that way at all. Comes from
Steffen Wesemann

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffen_Wesemann>

which is a name familiar to some cyclists.

Rob Morley

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:29:13 +1000
jcjordan <jcjordan.3b72hb@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:

> I have yet to find a pump that is small enough to carry on the bike
> (this includes the big chunky frame pumps) that will actually get a
> road bike tire anywhere near 100psi in under 30min of hard work, let
> alone the 120psi that I normally ride.
>
> Half inflated tires just ruin the ride and are just likely to puncture
> again. I would rather blow the AUS$2 on a CO2 canister and be going
> again within 5 min.
>
>
I can get 80PSI into a 700x28C tyre in about 3 minutes using an
ordinary cheap plastic Zefal frame pump, and that's plenty to be going
on with - I'm pretty sure an HPX would top 100PSI and not take much
longer to do it.

bugbear

Andrew Price wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:29:57 +0100, bugbear
> <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
>
>>> Or an SKS "Wese"
>> I'm not sure a name quite so like "wheeze"
>> is slick marketing!
>
> It's German, so it isn't pronounced that way at all.

But what if a 'umble Brit doesn't know that ;-)

BugBear

Andrew Price

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:01:23 +0100, bugbear
<bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:

>>>> Or an SKS "Wese"
>>> I'm not sure a name quite so like "wheeze"
>>> is slick marketing!
>>
>> It's German, so it isn't pronounced that way at all.
>
>But what if a 'umble Brit doesn't know that ;-)

You have a point there. In fact, I believe that some marketing
consultants do in fact cross-check with other major languages, to
ensure that a new product name doesn't sound silly...or worse. I
guess hand pumps for road bikes is such a tiny niche market that it
wasn't considered necessary.

Alan Braggins

In article <aprn541rvi37m5f453ctudggksjv3kq2h1@4ax.com>, Andrew Price wrote:
>
>You have a point there. In fact, I believe that some marketing
>consultants do in fact cross-check with other major languages, to
>ensure that a new product name doesn't sound silly...or worse.

Allegedly Rolls Royce planned to call the Silver Shadow the Silver Mist
until someone pointed out that Mist means shit in German.

But some widespread stories turn out not to be true:
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevro...he_urban_legend

On the other hand:
http://chameleon-translations.com/I...es-pajero.shtml