Quote Originally Posted by Biciclista View Post
A really good thing to have is a portable pump. Most everyone here's favorite pump is the Topeak road morph.
it's lightweight and even I can use it to pump up my tires.
Definitely, I've had several other pumps, none of which ever lasted very long and at least one of which disintegrated in my hands the very first time I used it.

I've also had at least a couple that I wasn't strong enough to actually use. Magilla Gorilla could pump his tire up with one of those, but I didn't have a chance.

Some frame pumps lack a pressure gauge, or the one they have breaks or is inaccurate. Hence the separate pressure gauge I carry in my seat bag.

I've had the Topeak for a long time now, and I can actually pump my tires up, it doesn't mangle the stem, it's giving no sign of breaking, and the pressure gauge is still accurate. In fact a lot of times I'll just pump my tires up with the Morph pre-ride instead of going and finding the floor pump.