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Old 10-22-20, 08:21 PM
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I have a Road Morph; gets the job done but bulky and heavy and ugly as sin on my new bike.

It has a hose, so you're less likely to break a valve stem. It has a lever hose end, so you're not going to unscrew your removable core. One end plants on the ground, so you can put your weight into it. It's robust.

On a 1200k brevet, fixing a flat at dusk in the middle of frickin' nowhere eastern Oregon, I was thinking about how much time I had in the bank, how much water was in my bottles and snacks in my pockets, and if my wife was going to freak because my satellite tracker would show me stopped in the middle of frickin' nowhere. One thing I didn't worry about was my pump. Sometimes I think about getting something prettier on the bike, then I think about being on the side of the road where pretty doesn't matter.
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