How nice is your floor pump?
 

I've decided it's time to start keeping a floor pump at work. I've got a cheapo Hurricane pump right now. It's not fancy, but it works with either valve type and the guage is only off by about 5 psi. I'm trying to decide whether to just get another cheap pump or spring for something nice and move this one to the office.

So, what kind of floor pump do you use and what do you think of it?

I"ve got a Joe Blow Sport pump. I paid around $20 bucks for it on sale and works perfectly fine. I don't see a need for any fancy pump.

Pretty nice, I think. It's a Specialized Air Tool. I like that it has a metal tube. $35 I think.

Same here - I keep it in the garage at home and it does the job quite well

Mine's great! I don't even need to heave and push, instead I just press a button. The pump sits on the floor and whirrrs away. Beauty.

I bought mine over four years ago with my first bike. It's a Giant and has a gauge at the top of the main tube and one of those automatic presta/schraeder heads. No leaks, always works, I think it was around $30 or $35. Only complaint is that the hose hanger doesn't hold the hose tightly.

The yellow and black one, like a bee? I have this, too; I tested 10 or 15 different pumps, and this was the best for Presta valves. All pumps let some air out when you take them off, but this one had the least problem. So it sits at home, and tops off my tires when they need it.

Mind if I ask why you need a pump at work? How often do you put air in your tires? I'm finding once a week is more than enough for me...

I had a Joe Blow for about 10 years until the rubber hose somehow dried out and cracked. I don't think the gauge was terribly accurate, though; measured way low. Now I have a Lezyne that seems really nice, and the gauge seems to be much better. It was something like $60 though.

An Avenir Airsource something-or-other. It has a pressure dial and a universal head. Works well enough up to 85 psi or so. I haven't tried higher.

My tires survive most punctures well enough to get me to work, but this time of year I sometimes come out in the evening and find that I have a flat. :( It happens often enough that it would be nice to just walk back to my desk and get a good pump.

Great idea - even off by 5 psi, it's better than using the frame pump to fix a flat or change a tire at work.

I need to get a floor pump at work also, as I frequently have a couple or three bikes at work and a couple or three at home, never know what's gonna happen.

My home pump is REALLY nice except for the handle - it's a plastic handled Silca. Got it on super sale for $10 in 1995 or so. Only took about 3 years to get used to the handle. I'd likely go with another Silca.

I have this one too. It works very well and was a huge improvement of the POS Blackburn that worked only when it wanted to work.

I've got a $13 plastic floor pump that I bought at a department store. I've used the hell out if it, and even take it on vacation, tossing it into the cargo trailer where it crashes around with propane tanks and other crap, and I've pumped up car tires with it when back in the woods. It works perfectly well.

The gauge on it seems to be pretty accurate, it reads the same as both of my digital gauges.

I have a 20 dollar pump from amazon I can't really compare because I've never used anything else, gets the job done though

I've got an Avenair Airmax dual head... Had it so long I don't remember the cost. Works great, has a good gauge at the base and has presta/schraeder heads on a long hose. I've used it up to 125PSI. It delivers and it is robust. It delivers enough volume that I have used it to top off low car tires.

I used to use my SCUBA tanks, but the floor pump is lighter and easier to move about.

I have a Serfa and a Joe blow sport. There's been time where I had to pump 5 bikes for my nephew, their friends, my SO and my bike just before heading out on a group ride. Got tired of pumping those tires and found the best pump so far after a search mission in the old garage. I found my old battery operated pump for my car tires and now I use that most of the time. I use a adapter for my Presta valve. Several nice thing about this pump is that the valve lever is opposite of standard bike pump and I don't lose any air locking the valve head or removing it. It has a built in light which is nice at time. It also can jump start my car battery on morning where I find a flat tube and is in a rush to get out of the house and where I am lazy to transfer my stuff to the other bike :)

Question: Why is that car tire pumps have the lever pushing down to lock while bicycle pumps are the opposite? What is the idea behind that?

I have a cheap Bell from Kmart. It has a gauge that seems to be accurate. I think my highest pressure tires are about 85psi, and that seems to be just about all this pump wants to do. If I got a road bike with higher pressure tires, I think I'd want a nicer pump, but this one works for my current needs.

I had one of those, POS wouldn't pump higher than 75 for me without literally blowing off the valve.
I bought a Topeak Joe Blow sport. Works great. If it ever dies, I might spend more just for good looks or something (like a Lezyne), but hopefully that'll be quite some time from now.
-Gene-

I've just got an inexpensive Blackburn Air Tower that I picked up at the LBS. Not necessarily fancy stuff but it gets the job done good enough for me.

Lezyne's are wonderful.


I have a crappy $10 pump with gauge I got from Canadian Tire. Works perfectly, gauge is close enough, plastic presta adapter works better than any of my brass ones.

Joe Blow Sport. This is the best pump, I have gotten friends to buy it, and almost bought a second for my girlfriend. Stand up good, strong, good hand grips, and easy to read gauge with movable arrow pointer.
http://www.topeak.com/mediafiles/products/1982/
This is also the best head for a pump, I thought about upgrading once, and I don't like how the other Topeak heads work, This is great and easy.
http://www.topeak.com/mediafiles/products/529/

I have a blackburn, I haven't had any trouble with it yet, hopefully never. But as far as the OP goes, I think mine is pretty nice. I paid $45ish. Combo valve, guage on the top and a fairly smooth pumping action.

Zefal Husky http://www.bicycleeverything.com/pro...loor-Pump.html

Lezyne. One for home, one for office:
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