need a pump
#27
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Well, I can mount it to my bottle cage bolts just fine, but since I require two cages, and the mounting bracket did not fit with the cage even with longer bolts, I decided to mount it on the frame. Either way, about as difficult or time consuming as taking a piss.
You being afraid of co2 cartridges blowing up is quite hilarious. You try to act all tough guy in other threads, and you are afraid of something that has a infinitesimal chance of actually happening, unless you happen to pack the cartridge in with a bunch of thin sharp darts and shake vigorously for hours on end. Not particularly difficult, once you learn that you can't let the entire cartridge empty at one single go at full strength. Inflating a tire in seconds is right handy.
You being afraid of co2 cartridges blowing up is quite hilarious. You try to act all tough guy in other threads, and you are afraid of something that has a infinitesimal chance of actually happening, unless you happen to pack the cartridge in with a bunch of thin sharp darts and shake vigorously for hours on end. Not particularly difficult, once you learn that you can't let the entire cartridge empty at one single go at full strength. Inflating a tire in seconds is right handy.
#28
please tell me this is a joke? explode? come on dude, do you ride your bike on the road? we are 70 times more likely to get hit by a car than a runner. and how often are you actually using the pump?
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https://www.lezyne.com/products/hand-...-drive-hp.html
Straight from the source - and better than I can do with my own photography skills!
Straight from the source - and better than I can do with my own photography skills!
#30
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so 2 weeks ago i had a flat and i bought topeak morph road g or something pump - it worked, i fixed the flat.
today i was trying to install the pump on my bike but the holes in the mount that came with the pump were too narrow for the screws on my frame. long story short i returned it to the store.
i need a new pump. frankly that topeak thing irritated the living **** out of me. this idiotic pump has an identity crisis - it must be thinking it's an iPhone or something. it tries to be so clever about everything it just makes me want to take an axe to it. i will never buy anything made by topeak again.
please - i want a simple, no nonsense, high quality pump for my 100 psi tires that easily and reliably mounts to the frame.
suggestions ?
today i was trying to install the pump on my bike but the holes in the mount that came with the pump were too narrow for the screws on my frame. long story short i returned it to the store.
i need a new pump. frankly that topeak thing irritated the living **** out of me. this idiotic pump has an identity crisis - it must be thinking it's an iPhone or something. it tries to be so clever about everything it just makes me want to take an axe to it. i will never buy anything made by topeak again.
please - i want a simple, no nonsense, high quality pump for my 100 psi tires that easily and reliably mounts to the frame.
suggestions ?
SF
#31
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If he hates the road morph g, he will have the same "complaints" about that lezyne. apparently features to make it easier to use and less likely to tear the stem are bad things to have.
#32
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dwr1961: Just my opinion, but I'd rather not have a metal frame mount scratching up my frame. +1 for plastic in this case.
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well hello there

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Just start out by buying a crappy little mini pump, like many of us did. Then after you get a few flats, if you're unhappy, upgrade to a better one. It's not rocket science.
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i would have never gotten into this stupidity otherwise.
if i had a brain when i was younger i wouldn't have gotten into any of the sports i am into.
but now it's too late to switch.
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which part of my bolts were too wide to go in did you not understand ?
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You being afraid of co2 cartridges blowing up is quite hilarious. You try to act all tough guy in other threads, and you are afraid of something that has a infinitesimal chance of actually happening, unless you happen to pack the cartridge in with a bunch of thin sharp darts and shake vigorously for hours on end. Not particularly difficult, once you learn that you can't let the entire cartridge empty at one single go at full strength. Inflating a tire in seconds is right handy.
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You mean like... basically every other cyclist ever?
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https://www.lezyne.com/products/hand-...-drive-hp.html
Straight from the source - and better than I can do with my own photography skills!
Straight from the source - and better than I can do with my own photography skills!
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you just don't understand anything about engineering. there are less features on a $150,000 porsche than on a $35,000 infinity. why ? because the best engineering is simplest.
besides that the product also must WORK. if it doesn't work its not a product - but a smoking heap of cow dung.
and no i am not required to drill anything out. they can go F*CK themselves. imagine if you bought a porsche and found out that the steering wheel only turns to the right and if you want to turn it to the left you need to open the hood and drill a few holes in a few places. can you even imagine that ?
like i said for $0.99 i would have bought it again and tried drilling more carefully. it's just not worth more than 99 cents.
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because it has 2 holes on top of each other. you must enlarge one without touching the other. that's how i ruined it - my drill went all the way through both. they truly made it ultra-idiotic. if i met the guy who designed it i would tear gas him.
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