Hello,

I will be picking up my NEW Waterford RS -14 Road Sport bike soon and I wanna get a nice looking frame mounted mini pump under the water bottle.

Who makes the best small pump that is stylish and unintrusive looking and top quality??

I do NOT like the look of frame pumps at all.

If you consider the Road Morph a mini, that does the job.

"Best mini pump" is like asking "What's the best disease to have?"

Ok, nevermind,too many wise guys in here.

This one works for me.
I have one on each bike, mounted to the seat tube bottle holder.

https://www.performancebike.com/bikes...551_1031044_-1___

I just bought a Mini-Morph, and like it a lot - although if you don't mount it somewhere on the frame I'm not sure where you intend to carry it.

Lezyne Road Drive is my current favorite. Small, lightweight, and has a classic look to it.

I use this:

https://www.amazon.com/Topeak-Pocket-.../dp/B000FI6XGC

It's cheap, tiny, and does its job reasonably well.

Lezyne

Lezyne micro

I have a mini-morph that I hope to never use.

I like this one but I got the hose gauge since it didn't come with a built in gauge

Teeny tiny Lezyne for me, but I only use it to start a little air in the tube before using a CO2 cartridge, and also as a theoretical backup in case I run out of CO2. I haven't had to pump up a tire all the way with it yet, but I think it would do the job.

Oh, and mounting it under the bottle cage is a good idea. I crashed with one in my jersey pocket, and it left a very painful bruise tattoo above my right hip...

https://www.cyclaire.co.uk/

I have a Specialized COTool a pump and CO-2 pump. But if I were just going to carry a pump and was looking at a waterford I would go with the
https://cycopath.com/product/lezyne-r...ve-67478-1.htm

It comes in silver so it would look pretty good as well.

HTFU and lose the CO2.

After reading this thread, I went home last night and tested the following minipumps, (all of which fit inside my Jandt saddle bags (I mislike visible frame pumps too)):

Crank Bros Plastic Body. 40 strokes at "High Volume" setting, then 100 strokes at "High Pressure" Setting got me up to 75psi.



Crank Bros Aluminum Body. 40 strokes at High Volume, then 100 strokes at High Pressure got up to almost 80psi. About an inch an a half longer than the plastic model above (but it still fit inside my saddle bag), and it seemed more robust as well.



Blackburn Airstik SL. 200 strokes got up to about 70psi. This pump is very compact and is therefore a PITA to pump toward the end.



Topeak Pocket Rocket Micro. 200 strokes got up to about 70psi. This tiny pump almost looks like it belongs in a woman's makeup kit. It's tiny size made it difficult to hold steady toward the end and each pump was chirping out leakage (although this admittedly may have been due to the fact that I'd worked up a light sweat pumping all these little things.)



All tests were performed on a Dura Ace 7850 C24 Clincher wheel (which is 22mm wide and therefore has more volume than many 19mm rims), with a Continental race tube and a 23mm Conti Gatorskin tire.

I'll do another, more scientific test later, but I had other stuff to do last night and couldn't spent a whole hour testing these things. Could probably have continued pumping and achieved a higher PSI, but time...

Everyone always raves about Lezyne. Do they make a pump shorter than 6-inches?

Well, I just ordered one of these little Lezyne Alloy Drive pumps in Small for $40.
The small is 116mm, which is just a tick over 6.5 inches, so it should still fit in my saddle bag. Lezyne's reputation is encouraging, so I'll give a full report once I've got it.

I expect from personal experience with a variety of different pumps - that each one has a technique that works best with it. And the best evaluation would also include finding the opimum technique for each pump.

The only one one that list that I have myself is the Blackburn Airstik SL and normally I don`t like minipumps without hoses because of the risk of valve stem damage - but this one is different.

Its actually designed to have the head braced against the palm of your hand once the valve is inserted and then your right hand (if thats what you`re pumping with) is countered by the force from your left palm. Usually its a real effort to get high pressure from a pump this small, but this model has worked out to be less effort than some larger models.

I don't care about having a tiny pump, so I use the Topeak Road Morph. It has a hose and a gauge, but can snap into a holder next to my water bottle.

I run high-volume tires, so never had to worry about high-pressure - until earlier this week. I was riding with a friend who carried co2. When she had a flat, I fixed it, and managed 110psi with my pump. I wouldn't want to do it often, but it worked.

Thanks. I'll give that a whirl when I test it again. Any idea what kind of PSI you're managing with it?

Thanks for the tip on the Lezyne micro hv. Just ordered one from amazon. bk

I have a BMW motorcycle Pump it's steel, leather cup, and a S/V head , pretty bombproof
It's stowed across tied to the dowel in my big saddle bag.

I have a Road Morph, too- and you take it from me when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Actually I have several, on the most-frequently used members of my fleet. I have no problems putting 100+psi in 700x32C tires with the Road Morph.

I`d be guessing at the PSI, but its a pretty good guess. The bike I take this out with is running 700 x 23c Michlin Bi-Sports that call for between 85 and 110 PSI.

So I know from using a floor pump with a guage and a compressor with a guage that it takes 95 PSI before I start to get a tire that I can`t deform by squeezing and thats what I aim for. Checked myself a few times with the guage on the Park Tool floor pump and I`m usually within 5 PSI of 100PSI so don`t bother any more. For my weight (155lbs) its OK.

But any portable pump is an emergency tool and you need to be in reasonable shape to use any of them. The whole idea of forcing 100PSI into something requires that you exert a greater force yourself and exceptional mechanical advantage is difficult to build into a hand held unit. `Effortless` isn`t exactly how I`d describe any pump except CO2 operated units.