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Old 11-06-14 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Tourist in MSN
Lezyne Micro Floor Drive is another favorite on this forum, a little smaller, a little lighter, longer hose. Overall a very different design. The chuck threads on instead of the conventional chuck. If you get this pump, make sure that you either do not have removable Presta valve cores or if they are removable, tighten them on with a wrench before you use the pump. Otherwise the core can stay in the pump chuck with you unthread the chuck from the wheel.
As happened to me one time. You take the tire off, change the tube, struggle to get the tire back on the tube without pinch flatting (this was a road bike with deep rims and a tight tire), pump the damn thing up to 100psi and psssssssssss. All the air goes out as you remove the pump and you feel like you're back (almost) at square one. Horrible.
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