High pressure or high volume hand pump for a cross/gravel bike?
04-29-16, 07:57 AM
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High pressure or high volume hand pump for a cross/gravel bike?
Keep a Lezyne Road Drive on my road bike and it works perfectly for the 25's I keep on it. Wanting something for my TCX. What would you recommend for 35's?
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Topeak Road Morph G.
Its the road version of the Morph pump, but I use it for 35s on a touring bike and 40s on a gravel bike. It pushes enough volume that it isnt tough to fill up high volume tires. The Mountain Morph has a wider barrel for more capacity, but ive never used it.
Both morph pumps have a flexible hose to you arent tearing the valve stem back and forth while pumping.
Its the road version of the Morph pump, but I use it for 35s on a touring bike and 40s on a gravel bike. It pushes enough volume that it isnt tough to fill up high volume tires. The Mountain Morph has a wider barrel for more capacity, but ive never used it.
Both morph pumps have a flexible hose to you arent tearing the valve stem back and forth while pumping.
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Road Morphs should be renamed to Road mort due to the piston falling off of so many. Just had another bad experience with another rider's Roadmorph.
I use an inexpensive Bontrager MTB pump on my gravel bike. It really depends on how much pressure you want to use. I know some people use up to 60 psi in their 35mm tires, but I like to keep it below 40psi. An MTB pump works fine for that. However, when I was switching wheels back and forth on my road bike, I lent someone my mtb pump for his road tires because the road pump was buried in my bag. He was happy with that, and he got the tires up to a fairly high pressure.
I use an inexpensive Bontrager MTB pump on my gravel bike. It really depends on how much pressure you want to use. I know some people use up to 60 psi in their 35mm tires, but I like to keep it below 40psi. An MTB pump works fine for that. However, when I was switching wheels back and forth on my road bike, I lent someone my mtb pump for his road tires because the road pump was buried in my bag. He was happy with that, and he got the tires up to a fairly high pressure.
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Well, if you have a good sense of humour (and time to count to 300 or so), I've been using a Crank Bros Gem S. You can switch from high volume after things get started to high pressure.
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Road Morphs should be renamed to Road mort due to the piston falling off of so many. Just had another bad experience with another rider's Roadmorph.
I use an inexpensive Bontrager MTB pump on my gravel bike. It really depends on how much pressure you want to use. I know some people use up to 60 psi in their 35mm tires, but I like to keep it below 40psi. An MTB pump works fine for that. However, when I was switching wheels back and forth on my road bike, I lent someone my mtb pump for his road tires because the road pump was buried in my bag. He was happy with that, and he got the tires up to a fairly high pressure.
I use an inexpensive Bontrager MTB pump on my gravel bike. It really depends on how much pressure you want to use. I know some people use up to 60 psi in their 35mm tires, but I like to keep it below 40psi. An MTB pump works fine for that. However, when I was switching wheels back and forth on my road bike, I lent someone my mtb pump for his road tires because the road pump was buried in my bag. He was happy with that, and he got the tires up to a fairly high pressure.
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I have the same pump for my road but and figured I would be better off using a HV pump for my gravel grinder so I got a Lezyne Gauge Drive HV pump. They have a version without the pump but I figure it wasn't going to hurt to have a gauge. Only have had to use once (so far) but it worked great and filled the new tube fast.
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