Touring - Road Morph vs. Mountain Morph, w or w/o Gauge?

My wife's Zefal HPx fell off her bike. She rides every day and needs a pump to carry. She has an old Specialized Rockhopper rigid with Schrader valves. She uses Tom Slick tires, which she pumps to around 65 psi. Which of these would be better for her? How accurate are the gauges? How do they attach to the frame? She has two water bottles. The HPx was stuck to a nylon doo-hickey that attached to the top tube to approximate a real pump peg. Maybe that's why it fell off? It's a 16.5" frame, if that helps.

Thanks!

P. S. I realize this might not be the best forum for this, but we tourers are always full of such practical, real-world advice.

She has a mountain bike. Maybe she should use a mountain bike pump? I don't think the pressure gauge is necessary for the MTB. Just pump untill it feels firm. That's me. Some people will need an indication for when to stop pumping.

A mtn bike pump has a wider barrel, and so is good for lower pressures, but very high road bike pressures can be hard to get to. Road bike pumps have narrower barrels, and so they will pump a high pressure road tire more easily, but because of the smaller barrel volume, it will take longer to pump up a mountain bike tire. So, I would choose accordingly. Both will work, it's just that they are designed for their respective purposes.

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I :love: the morphs. Good choice!



I don't have anything technical to add; Longfemur said it all. I just love those morphs so much that I had to post again how much I like them.

The gage is really small so it isn't a weight issue. It works well and I like it for high pressure tires where it often beggars belief how little pressure one has in it.

I read somewhere the mountain morphs weren't that good. i have a road morph w/ gauge for touring. The gauges is sorta-useful, within maybe 5-10 psi - it's kind of notch-y. but it's a great pump, easy to get my tires up to 90psi. i use presta, for whatever that's worth.

Mt.Morph is a little bit lighter thanRoad Morph.
Guage is not a necessity, just squeeze tire after pumping it up. Is it hard? Fine!
We use the Mt Morph on our tandem with 700c tires; 100 pump strokes gets us 100 lbs. of pressure.
Best pump around. Almost a pleasure to have a flat!

My wife's Zefal HPx fell off her bike. She rides every day and needs a pump to carry. She has an old Specialized Rockhopper rigid with Schrader valves. She uses Tom Slick tires, which she pumps to around 65 psi. Which of these would be better for her? How accurate are the gauges? How do they attach to the frame? She has two water bottles. The HPx was stuck to a nylon doo-hickey that attached to the top tube to approximate a real pump peg. Maybe that's why it fell off? It's a 16.5" frame, if that helps.

Thanks!

P. S. I realize this might not be the best forum for this, but we tourers are always full of such practical, real-world advice.

Topeak makes a mountain pump with a gauge. It's the Mountain Morph G (http://www.topeak.com/2007/products/minipumps/turbomorphg.php). I like the gauge because, even after decades of riding, I don't trust my fingers...I'm usually way off.

Do your wife a favor and swap out the schraders for presta. They're easier to pump.

I have a road morph, which I really like, but...

if I were to buy another pump for touring, it would be the new Mini Morph.

http://www.topeak.com/2007/products/minipumps/minimorph.php

I'm not a weight weenie, but the ounces do add up. :)

The gauge on my road morph is fairly consistently inaccurate by about 10 psi. If I want 80psi, I pump until the gauge reads about 90. YMMV. It's a ballpark gauge, but good enough.