or yet another reason to be very wary of trusting a Topeak pump. Last night I found out that the cap that holds the adapters for my road morph g had come unscrewed and fallen off. It must have fallen off when I was riding, and the pump isn't much good without it if you're wondering. Fortunately I discovered the lost piece before I left my girlfriends place last night and was able to pump the tire back up before leaving, and I was even more fortunate that this happened on the front tire and not the back. I'd used the pump a few times before this and it seemed to work well enough to make me think the people that rave about them were right, but my previous problems with a Topeak floor pump make me too leery of them to trust them to be my only way to pump up a tire.

So if you've got a road morph g I'd recommend checking the end of the hose to see if all the parts are still there before you find out they aren't and you're stuck somewhere.

I have had that happen.

I used to like the pressure gauge on morph pumps but in the end I haven't been able to beat the volume and reliability of a full length frame pump.

A fan here of good full frame pumps. The only tire inflation tool I know of that works everywhere, all the time and needs no back-up. (Yeah, I know of folk who ride with floor pumps but I am excluding then here.)

The bike that cannot carry a full sized frame pump? Not in my stable. I consider tire pressure that important.

Oh, the "good" frame pumps? There are many. Zephal HPXs are one. I stick to them (and the older HPs) just to keep things simple. There is a rattle (probably of the spring) inside the handle that sounds a lot like a loose headset. I wish they would silence that. But for the important part, keeping tires inflated, those pumps work. (I used the older HP as my only pumps from the early '70s until the early '90s when I bought my first floor pump.)

Ben

My place for those tends to be In the bags, so if things come loose they'd be in the bottom.

Glad you found the part and were not stranded. Sounds like maybe a little loctite blue might be in order.

i dropped one of my favorite gloves the other day while riding and haven't found it yet. so no more North Face gloves for me!

Was that you? I have found more gloves than I can count! Mostly work gloves (Firm Grip/Mechanix), they are great for SoCal winter riding.

finding A glove is easy, even multiples. it's finding a matching pair for the right and left hand that's difficult. maybe i'm expecting too much, IDK. rubber gloves don't count, BTW.

Sounds like you neglected to tighten the nut. Not the fault of the pump, IMHO.

All parts are readily available at your LBS, and you can add insurance by purchasing a plastic cover at your local Ace Hardware, in the dept that sells things like chair leg covers/ends, and it is a relatively hard plastic cover. If I remember correctly, it's a 5/8" size, but you better measure. Slip it over the end, and slightly up the barrel for security. An added bonus - it keeps the dirt out! It fits rather snugly, and works well!

https://www.acehardware.com/product/i...uctId=32495926 come in various sizes, lengths, and colors. Cheap insurance, added benefits.

In addition to checking the cap tightness I've had to take mine apart and clean it after a hard winter where I didn't use it. One more unexpected thing to add to your list of bike maintenance chores. (Not the road morph in my case, but one of the Topeak mini models.)

If you contacted Topeak, I bet they would send you a new cap free or sell you one for a reasonable price.

I have a Road Morph G that I use on my touring bike, mounted beneath the downtube. However, I don't like other mounting options for the shorty pumps and bought a full-size Topeak frame pump for my bikes with pump pegs under the top tubes. The full size Topeak pump works just as well or better than the Road Morph, altho it doesn't have a pressure gauge.

Sorry to say this but I gotta agree. I have at least 12 of the Topeaks (one on each bike) and I've never lost parts off the pump head. When switching from Schrader (default usually for Topeak Morphs) to Presta, the nut does have to be tightened on as tight as it will go. It may resist a bit which could leave it loose and prone to falling off.

Totally agree, rubber gloves are useless (for biking), and matching left/right pairs are quite rare. I am content with mismatched right/left. I recently did find a brand new (but full of rain and road grit) pair of Mechanix gloves, unfortunately a size too small, so I stuck with my brown left glove and grey right glove, both Firm Grip, so pretty similar.

I've never even considered a mini-pump. The thought of all that extra back-and-forth makes me tired, just thinking about it!

I do wonder, which lost gloves are most prevalent? Right, or Left hand? I'm betting right, since folks are most likely to take off the glove on the dominant hand to do stuff...

That's a good question, I'll try to remember to go check my pile of road gloves at home...

I had the same experience with the Road Morph. After two days on crushed limestone trails, the thing had collected a fair amount of grit inside the tube. Kinda caught me by surprise.

This could be the answer, I may have been too gentle on something that looked like it would break if I tightened it too much. I'll have to be more aggressive with tightening the replacement parts that Topek said they would send me and hope I don't break anything from overtightening. And hope I can get it apart again if I need to use it inflate the tires on my GFs bike that use Presta valves.

I'd be less likely to blame Topeak here if my new Topeak floor pump hadn't broken one day when I was trying to add air to my tires before I rode to work. It worked great for letting air out that day, but that's not why I bought a floor pump. It was deja vu all over again.

from what I can tell, all you can count on with a new Road Morph G is that all of the parts are there. When mine was new, the cap fall off just like the op. Stupid pump cost me an extra $10 before I even got to use it the first time. Who checks to see if all the parts are firmly attached on a pump they just bought? Then a couple of years later, I suffered the dreaded and relatively common "piston fell off" failure and I ended up walking quite a ways. So when people recommend this pump, I wish them good luck.

didn't cross my mind... the whole subject actually. the prevalence of 'found' lost gloves that is.
anyway, i sense you're a deep thinker.

BTW, i suppose i should feel a little guilt, as this is an OT post, but after all, the entire thread dwells upon a bicycle tire pump's lost cap. so by comparison it can hardly be considered frivolous.

I carry a Park frame pump, I just cover the hole with a small piece of electrical tape.