The flat gods spoke to me today, and this is what they said:

"Thou shallt carry two independent means of inflating a tube."

OK, they didn't use those words, instead they caused my Road Morph G to explode when I was fixing a flat. That is, it morphed from a bicycle pump into this:



Luckily it didn't explode until it got to 90 psi, so I was OK.

Apparently the plastic threads into which the main cylinder screws are somewhat stripped. I can screw it back in, but even with a little torque, it "breaks through."

I've said before that I have a love/hate thing with the Road Morph. When it works, it's great, but this is the third or fourth time it has failed. And the failures have been due to poor design (pins falling out, things rusting, plastic threads). I'm through with Topeak.

I like the hybrid pump/inflators, but they don't satisfy the flat gods' dictum.