Pump Choice

[wabisabi]

Another big vote for the Road Morph. This weekend on a charity ride I flatted and so did a fellow rider. He was very impressed with my little pump, complete with its gauge and 'foot'; the only problem was that he has big hands and hit his knuckles on the holder for the tube. The separate tube really allays my fear of bending and breaking the valve also. I also have it on my seat tube--my bike is 52 cm., so it just tucks in on the other side of the bottle cage.

[Pedal Wench]

I"ve got the tiny little Crank Bros. Power Pump, and I like it. Used it once out on the road, and twice at home (put new HOT PINK tires on my bike!) and it works fine. I've read a lot of reviews from people who couldn't get it to work, and it sounds like they're not pushing the nozzle all the way in. I like that it's small enough to fit into my small seat post bag.

[Nanci]

I'd be one of those people (along with BF and Bf's friend) who couldn't get the Crank Brothers tiny pump to work...Tried multiple times, different bikes.

Grog- what bike do you have? Sometimes you can get it on the _back_ of the seat tube, or whatever you call it...Ot could you move your bottle cage?

Nanci

[maryellen]

go w road morph. For my first year I used it as my only pump! (I did eventually realize my first floor pump was defective and traded it in for a floor pump that actually worked.) Wow, that changed my life.

[Grog]

Grog- what bike do you have? Sometimes you can get it on the _back_ of the seat tube, or whatever you call it...Ot could you move your bottle cage?

I have a Miele road bike with a sloped top tube, so the space available on the vertical tube is extremely short. And I can't move my bottle cages. And there's no space in the back big enough for the road morph, it's really a big pump. I guess I'll just get some mini that would do the work in a worst case scenario... Thanks for the idea !!

[Nanci]

What about the bottom side of the down tube, between the cranks? That's where I had to mount my old pump on my Titus Locomoto MTB, because I wanted to keep my two water bottles. It never interferred with the cranks, and was bigger than the Road Morph...

Nanci

[DeniseGoldberg]

I have a Miele road bike with a sloped top tube, so the space available on the vertical tube is extremely short. And I can't move my bottle cages. And there's no space in the back big enough for the road morph, it's really a big pump. I guess I'll just get some mini that would do the work in a worst case scenario... Thanks for the idea !!

You might want to take a look at the attachment for the Road Morph. It has a band that you put around one of the tubes, then the pump clips into that band. So it could possibly fit on the side (or to the bottom) of the sloped top tube. I have the band on one of my bikes sort of under water bottle cage.

--- Denise

[Crankin]

I have my Road Morph on the side of the sloped tube, on my 47 cm bike. I guess it's a crime to put this on a carbon bike, but it's there, along with my larger rear seat pack.

[Geonz]

Me too, Me too (Road Morph).

One time we went by a guy with a flat, asked if he had every thing he needed, he said "yea," somebody said, "maybe we have a better pump" and he said, "no, I have a road morph."

I'm afraid mine lives in my CamelBak but that's 'cause I'm not exactly a monovelous rider and that way it's almost always with me whatever steed I"m straddling.