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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: First flat in a looooong time
Date: 2 Apr 2025 21:32:49 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 4/2/2025 1:28 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>> Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 12:23:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 4/2/2025 8:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 4/1/2025 10:20 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Turns out she'd borrowed a Schrader mini pump. She didn't recognize
>>>>>> that it didn't fit her Presta valves. So I gave her tire irons, taught
>>>>>> her how to change a tube, and advised on buying the proper pump and a
>>>>>> spare tube, checked over the rest of the bike, etc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pumps with single valve format (i.e., not reversible) are very old now.
>>>> 
>>>> Huh. My only mini pump is the one I carry on my folding bike. (I did
>>>> some minor filing on the pump head to allow it to fit inside the bike's
>>>> seat tube.) Anyway, it's got only a Presta head, with an oddball adapter
>>>> kept inside its handle to inflate Schrader. I'm guessing it's 10 - 15
>>>> years old.
>>>> 
>>>> Before I visited the young lady I mentioned, I suggested she buy a floor
>>>> pump, which she did. Dual head made of plastic, but the Presta head
>>>> seemed very difficult to properly clamp on the valve. And the (once
>>>> replaced) head on my own floor pump is getting dodgy as well. I need to
>>>> open it and see what's gone wrong. I suppose there are better and worse
>>>> pump heads on the market, but I don't know which are which.
>>> 
>>> https://www.modernbike.com/topeak-mini-morph-g-frame-pump-with-foot-pad
>>> 
>>> --
>>> C'est bon
>>> Soloman
>>> 
>> 
>> I had one of those few years back, found it worse of both worlds, as it
>> wasn’t small enough to fit in a saddle bag or so on, but also not a good as
>> a proper track pump.
>> 
>> I bought it for traveling I guess one of the electric pumps would make
>> sense for that sort of use now?
> 
> I tend to stay away from needlessly electrified stuff. I bought a new 
> tire gage at my usual LBS a couple days ago. The owner (a friend of 
> mine) suggested a fancy electronic one. Nope!
> 
> 
> 
They have been around for few decades haven’t they? Is a Topeak one that
runs on coin batteries, I found the batteries had gone flat by time I’d got
around to using it, was when I did more traveling by plane with bike so
space and weight was at a premium, with one of the non gauge equipped Morph
pumps. I disliked both!

But I do get that for folks who do it frequently that a small battery
equipped pump with a gauge is quite a need solution to flying with a track
pump.

I’m not that usecase as I tend to travel with bike in the estate car so
loads of room for the track pump that I know how it works and so on.

Roger Merriman