good frame mounted pump?
 

Looking for a quality frame mounted pump w/ gauge to strap on my bike for longer rides. Lower the price the better.

it doesnt have a gauge, but i just got a topeak road master blaster and it seems like a great pump so far. previously i used a lezyne micro floor drive mounted behind a bottle cage which does have a gauge and its a great pump that seems indestructable



if anyone knows a comparable frame pump with a gauge id also be interested to know. i wish the new silca had a gauge on it...

Lezeyne ftw

Any Lezyne pump. They're the best.

Lezyne seems to get it.

Lezyne - Engineered Design - Products - Hand Pumps - High Pressure - Gauge Drive HP

About $50.

i have lezyne pump. it is good. but i carry co2 inflator and couple of cartridges. highly recommend. no longer using pump

But (and this is, to my mind a very big but) that Lyzne is short. Long stroke pumps pump get there with fewer strokes. I will admit I haven't used the Lezyne but I have trouble with the concept that it would be easier than the Zephal HPX. And Zephal gets that longer is better and supplies the pump in four lengths so you can fit the longest possible on your bike.

The HPX. Not a hot new name, no flash, just a pump that will fill your tires easily many, many times. (I had the predecessor, the HP on my bikes in my racing days and no other pump. Maintaining sew-ups on all my bikes with just those pumps was no big deal. It was 18 years before I bought a floor pump. I used the classic digital pressure gauge that most of us have lying around somewhere. Thumb and fore finger.)

Ben

Can't go wrong with Lezyne's stuff.

A non-Lezyne and cheaper but just as good alternative would be Topeak's road morph-G.
I kid you not when I say you're able to inflate a tire with it to 120psi with a reasonable amount of effort when others are wholly unable to reach such territory to begin with. That's because it has a optional flip down pedal for you to use it as a floor pump for ease of use. The built in gauge is also pretty accurate.

http://urbanvelo.org/wordpress/wp-co...roadmorph2.jpg

I was looking at that Topeak morph-g .. may end up with that one.. another question... when checking the pressure with your hand do you check the sidewall or tread? And how firm should it be?

I won't ague that a shorter pump is easier or better. For some reason I read "frame mount" in the OP and thought of those mini pumps that mount near the bottle cage.

A full-length carbon fiber Blackburn pump has been on my road bike for over 12 years and gotten many people out of jams when they bungled their only CO2 cartridge.

I will argue against estimating pressure with your fingers. That might be good roadside emergencies but really isn't a replacement for a good gauge - not when running tires that cost $50 each and bombing down mountains at 50 MPH. People did lots of things in the past but it doesn't mean that we can't do better now and gauges are cheap. The OP should own a gauge, at least at home.


-Tim-

Now that's something that is very ambiguous. A whole bunch of considerations, primarily what tire you're using as all makes and models are not created equal and how good your perceptions/ muscle memory are/ is.
It's like how a mechanic is able to easily gauge how much torque they applied to a fastener by hand without using a torque wrench. It takes time.

A good way to start is to find a PSI you're good with and checking how firm that is.

OR you just stick to a magic PSI/ bar number with a gauged inflation device.

Problem is the pump I have doesn't have a gauge and the pressure gauge I do have only goes to 60psi... tires are Continental Sport

I guess I need to have them inflated to the correct pressure and see how they feel until I can get a pump

I find it's impossible to guage tire pressure by feel. Tires don't start to feel soft until they are practically flat.

co2 and a nice head. pumps suck.