Vince868

This year I've started to begin riding longer distances, currently up to around 4 hours, and wondered any recommendations for pumps. Ie...frame mounted or carrying in a seat pack. Also, second question, I have a rear seat pack but are there recommendations for another pack (handlebar, frame, other?). Appreciate the comments.

spokenword

my standard frame pump for the last six years has been a Zefal HP-X. It's been very good and reliable, but I wouldn't mind if it had a pressure gauge as well. For this reason, I am always mildly envious when friends whip out their Topeak Road Morphs. Those are fine pumps, too, though you'll likely have to store them in a rear or front bag.

As far as seatpacks go, you might want to add a few qualifiers to help with the recommendations.

-- how much are you planning to carry (basic repair gear + credit card? ultralight touring?)
-- do you ride in the rain and do you need something to stow your rain gear?
-- do you have a rack or brazeons for a rack?
-- do you have a front rack or brazeons for a front rack?
-- what's your budget?

personally, for a 4 hour day ride, I've been fine with your average underseat pack (Topeak Aero Wedge Medium) to carry basic repair tools, spare tube, a wallet, phone and small Clif bar. For longer rides or inclement weather, I'd go with a transverse saddlebag, like the Carradice Pendle or Barley if you've got the cash to spare.

MTBMaven

I am currently using the Quicker Pro Pump, which I got from Velo Orange. I'm happy with it. It will get the pressure up there for sure which is nice. Pressure gauge is marginally useful.
https://www.velo-orange.com/quickerpropump.html


I would like to try a larger frame pump, like the Topeak Road Morph or Zefal HP-X. A full aluminum or better yet polished aluminum would be really nice.

Carbonfiberboy 

Topeak Road Morph. Store it in a mountain pump bracket that attaches under your downtube bottle cage. Maybe you have an old bracket, get one from a friend, or buy. The bracket that comes with the pump zipties to your top tube, but that's unclassy. Zefal is good, too, but the Morph is better. Maybe the best thing is that your enthusiastic friends won't rip the valves out of your tubes anymore when they "help" with the pumping.

paulkal

Zefal HPx

madscot13

Topeak road Morph is an awesome pump. I don't have a normal floor pump because I only use this one. You can also screw the bracket using the downtube water braze ons. that is what I did. I think that is classy enough for me. best pump ever.

unterhausen

If you do get a road morph, which I'm reluctant to recommend, call them up and scream at them because they should have given you the holder that attaches to the side of your water bottle. Otherwise they'll try to charge you $5, which is incredibly outrageous.

CliftonGK1

I'm a big fan of the Road Morph G. Only difference from the regular Road Morph is an inline pressure gauge.

mattm

Another Zefal Hpx fan here.

Fwiw I hear you can scrub off the black paint on the shaft of the zefal, and that it's shiny alu under the coat of black paint. The handles would still be black though.

Randochap

Another happy Topeak Road Morph user here.

bmike

lezyne road drive:



and lezyne pressure drive:



are two of my current favs.
i do miss my zefal frame pump from back in the day...

njkayaker

(We must be the same person!)

I have the shorter Lezyne Road Drive. The hose fits inside of the pump, which makes it a neater package than the very-well-liked Topeak Road Morph. The Lezyne pumps have a good reputation (as far as I can determine). I don't have much experience using mine but it appears to work fine.

I had an ancient Zefal that I used as my only pump.

bmike

i like the road drive better for 28s and less.
the pressure drive is on my fixed gear all terrain-a-saurus with wide tires.

dwr1961

Lezyne Micro Floor Drive HP... Similar in design to the famous Road Morph (I have two of those) with a longer hose, better chuck, slicker frame mount, lighter weight, and NO plastic. Awesome pump - and I'll bet most people have never heard of it.

Check it out:
https://www.lezyne.com/index.php/prod...and-pumps.html

Rick@OCRR

Topeak Road Master Blaster. It's a frame fit, plenty of pressure and a better looking copy of a Zefal HP-X. Of course, Topeak is sold in the U.S. by the same folks that used to sell Zefal (Todson), but that's probably just a coincidence!

Rick / OCRR

njkayaker

The Road Drive is rated for 160lbs. It would seem that it would be a lot of work getting it there! I was going to go with the longer Road Drive but was sent the shorter one instead. The Air Drive is rated for 120lbs and can be used for Presta and Shrader, which might be useful for group/club rides). I was going to go with the Air Drive but the place didn't have it in stock. I don't think I would ride on more than 120psi. It looks like the Road Drive will get to 120 reasonably easy (and fortunately, I don't get flats too often).

I was going to go with a frame pump but my weird frame won't take one.

jaypee

Another vote for the Lezyne stuff. I like them because they're mostly made out of metal with less plastic stuff to break.

thompsw

With the right tires, the pump is more of an issue of what/where do you want to carry -- top tube, water bottle braze-on, pocket or pack. I use the Specialized Armadillo Elite tires and it's been several thousand miles and months since I've had a flat. With racing tires, I was fixing at least a flat a week, sometimes more than one per ride. Then I had a small carbon pump mounted to the braze-on and a CO2 inflator. Lately the small pump has been buried in my pack with my tools.

I remember now -- the last flat was in January and was a shingle nail stuck just off-center in the tire. That was six thousand miles ago.

froze

The Lexyne looks like a very well made pump but I've never used one nor know anyone who has one. But the hose would help those who don't know how to keep a regular pump attached to the valve stem without a lot of movement risking damage to the stem.

I have the SKS Wese Carbon and it works very well; this pump is more on the level of a mid size mini. It has no hose but this has never been an issue for me, and it's light weight.

Always keep in mind, true small mini pumps will NEVER pump to the manufactures claimed psi ratings. I have found from my own experience and others that I know that they will generally pump at the most 25% LESS then the manufactures claims, and in most cases probably closer to 33% less.

I don't like CO2 because your limiting yourself to how much air you can carry. No big deal you say because maybe your thinking you've never had more then one flat on a ride so you carry two just in case the unusual happens...except one day you have three, now your screwed. Plus you have to take home the empties and make sure you don't forget to put new ones in your bag for the next ride. With a pump it's already attached to your bike ready and waiting to be used thus no preparing.

Also frame pumps are way easier to pump with way less pumps for high pressure road tires with vs mini's. The Zefal HPX Classic and the Blackburn CF are both extremily reliable frame pumps that are claimed to reach 160psi but probably closer to 125 which is more then fine for most road bikes. Even though these have no hoses the problem of damaging a stem is remote because of the ease of pumping. And frame pumps also have the added advantage in that they can be used as dog clubs.

bmike

used it on the road today for the first time. worked great. tried it in the garage and was pleased. first road flat today in 3.5 years.

Nestor

Another vote for Lezyne. After nicking two valve stems while on the road with a Topeak (not the road morph), I opted for the longer Road Drive. The hidden hose and straightforward design were the deal makers.

supramax

I use the Axiom 'THRUST Air'. https://bikemag.com/news/freshproduce/axiom_pump/
I like it.

thatmikeguy

+1 for the lezyne mini floor pump. used it on several valve type/rim combinations and have no problem getting to 110 psi. plus it's easy to strip down and clean on the road if you happen to pick up some grit while riding.

bktourer1

Topeak sent me a bottle cage mount for free. The only thing I didn't like was that it isnt easy to read the gauge. I took apart the gauge and with a Sharpie, drew a red line on the PSI mark I usually use for my tires. With another line on the outside of the gauge, I just line the 2 marks up when I hit the PSI I use

robertkat

Blasphemer! If the HPX had thumbs, we would be slaving away in the coal mines right now.