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Originally Posted by mrodgers (Post 16739448)

I have a $50 Amazon gift card and need everything but bar ends (hybrid) still for a bike. I have read repeatably the recommendation for the Road Morph so I have the one in my Amazon cart awaiting pay day for additional funds to buy everything else.

I'm running 700x32 at 85 psi max, so would the road or mountain bike version be the one to get for me?

Road

Aaron :)

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Originally Posted by DBA (Post 16739848)

OP....I know it's not a frame pump, but have you considered CO2 inflators?
I have one that just screws onto the CO2 cartridge, then you perss it onto the valve stem (will work with presta or schraeder), a quick twist of the valve and the tire is inflated to riding pressure (about 90 psi I think for a 700x25c tire) in about 2 seconds.

I rode for years carrying only CO2 with no back up and it never let me down. Here, however, are my concerns:

1. You have to be REAL careful when you install your new inner tube. CO2 inflates your tire so fast that you won't get a second chance if your tube is pinched somewhere under your tire bead.
2. All tires don't need the same amount of CO2. I stopped using it when I switched to larger volume tires. A 16 gram cartridge barely got me home when I punctured a 20 X 1.5 front tire on our recumbent tandem. If we had punctured our 26 X 1.5 rear tire, it would have been too soft to ride.

Now I pack road morphs.

Ah yes, I learned about tube pinch and CO2. I actually didn't catch it until I was back on the road again. Managed to deflate it and saved the tube (pumped it up with the pump at work).

M.