Pump Choice

**Nanci** · 09-20-2005, 11:48 AM

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** · 09-20-2005, 12:49 PM

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** · 09-20-2005, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

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** · 09-21-2005, 09:33 AM

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** · 09-21-2005, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Dogmama

Those of you who carry a Topeak - how do you have it mounted on your bike? Which tube? It says the pump is 12.7" long.

I have the pump on the top tube on my "big wheel" bike and along the "bottom" of the tube that connects to the titanium beam on my Bike Friday Air Glide. I believe the Morph pumps can easily be placed in quite a few different spots because they don't fit between anything. There is a band that you mount around one of the tubes (any one...) and the pump clips into that.

I wouldn't ride with anything else - with this pump I can easily get my tires up to the proper pressure.

--- Denise

**Dogmama** · 09-21-2005, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by DeniseGoldberg

I wouldn't ride with anything else - with this pump I can easily get my tires up to the proper pressure.
--- Denise

Denise, thanks for the recommendation. I know you ride long distances out in the middle of nowhere!

**DeniseGoldberg** · 09-21-2005, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Grog

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** · 09-25-2005, 05:01 AM

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** · 09-25-2005, 07:49 PM

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.

**JesTutripup** · 10-03-2005, 02:12 PM

Dont' scream, but I do not carry a pump. I just purchased a spare tube this weekend. My handpumps too bulky and I don't want a frame pump unless it has a gauge on it (very important-you don't want to blowout your tire).

It depends on what your confident in using. Cartridges are convenient, but caution with storage so you don't break the seal. Air's good, cause it's not as heavy in your tire and you get a work-out. If you have presta valves (very skinny) tubes PLEASE carry a converter. These valves are fragile and break easily. The brass valves only cost a $1.

I went looking for pump straps today to that I'm not living so dangerously.

**bikerz** · 10-03-2005, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by JesTutripup

Dont' scream, but I do not carry a pump. I just purchased a spare tube this weekend. My handpumps too bulky and I don't want a frame pump unless it has a gauge on it (very important-you don't want to blowout your tire).

The road morph has a gauge - very handy!

**Grog** · 10-03-2005, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by JesTutripup

Dont' scream, but I do not carry a pump. I just purchased a spare tube this weekend. My handpumps too bulky and I don't want a frame pump unless it has a gauge on it (very important-you don't want to blowout your tire).

Seriously, there is no way ever I could blowout my tire pumping it with a frame pump. With my foot pump, the Sports JoeBlow, MAYBE (like if I'm standing with all my weight on the pump piston!!!). But when I get any close to 90 psi it get real hard to pump air into those tires.

As I see it the gauge mostly is used to make sure you have *enough* air.

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