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I need a new one. Which is the best?
Depends what your requirements are. What sort of pressures and volume (mtb, road, track), what valves does it need to work with? Budget?
Lifeline (Wiggles own brand) £15 track pump. I have one at work and one at home - both been perfect.
I haven't killed the £14.99 Aldi one I got last year yet, which is better going than the considerably more spendy Topeak and Lezyne ones I've also had over the past couple of years.
Yes, I do seem to destroy track pumps suprisingly often, no idea why, weird.
Rennkompressor and Topeak Smarthead. Plus a Airshot for tubeless duties.
Best? Probably a Silca SuperPista Ultimate.
About £400 but it should last a while.
Just ordered a Topeak Joe Blow on Wiggle at 40% off, to replace a Lezyne one that has a troublesome leaky connector.
[quote="eddiebaby"]Best? Probably a Silca SuperPista Ultimate.
About £400 but it should last a while.Um. Is that the one that eats the plunger seal and has just been recalled for exploding pressure gauges?
Rennkompressor here. Several years old and never missed a beat. Tubeless, tubes, tubular and so on.
Joe Blow are excellent once you blank off the side you are not using otherwise they leak like hms qe
Rennkompressor and Topeak Smarthead.
See Rennkompressors and Super Pistas are great for road and track but 220 psi gauges and high pressure oriented design mean there are much better alternatives for high volume low pressure applications like CX and MTB. Also Silca 17-4 head over any Topeak offering 🙂
[quote="mrblobby"]mean there are much better alternatives for high volume low pressure applications like CX and MTB.I've found a calibrated thumb, an idea of where/what you are riding and practice serves far better than most built in pressure gauges at sub 2bar pressures.
Whatever works for you ghostly 🙂
But yes, a lot of gauges are rubbish so get a good one if you’re going to use it. You might still prefer a pump that shifts a decent volume of air.
Joe Blow are excellent once you blank off the side you are not using otherwise they leak
That’s a bit rubbish having just ordered one.... 😡
Rate both the Pista (mine is at least 15 years old and spent ages in a damp shed) and rennkompressor but neither is accurate at mtb pressures.
Does anyone make a pump with a gauge that is? https://silca.cc/collections/replacement-parts/products/super-pista-ultimate-replacement-gauge-kit Looks interesting but is 65 on top of a SuperPista!
https://fabric.cc/products/pumps/accubar-pressure-gauge/ looks like it *should* work.
[quote> https://fabric.cc/products/pumps/accubar-pressure-gauge/ looks like it *should* work.
I like the look of that. I've tried both the Topeak and the SKS digital guages and found both to be crap. I do wonder if they get tubless gunk in that screws them up (and whether this one would too - especially with the release button)
On another website today...
Rennkompressor here, it's over twenty years old and has one new head which was a topeak something or other.
Rennkompressor for road , topeak joe blow booster (with the tubeless chamber) for mtb
That’s a bit rubbish having just ordered one....
do the latest ones come with the leaky twinhead adapter or the single ?
Was seeing if SKS did replacment guages for the RennK. Seems they do a 29er pump with a guage up to 85psi and a fat pump that only goes up to 25psi.
https://www.bikerumor.com/2016/01/20/review-sks-twentyniner-large-barrel-floor-pump/
Would be good to get one where spare parts can be bought easily, ive went through the jo blo blackburn and another top brandy one cant remember the name
Halfords red one for £15 just now
A wee tip dont lend it to anyone
Klunk - MemberJoe Blow are excellent once you blank off the side you are not using otherwise they leak like hms qe
The twinhead doesn't. Or shouldn't anyway, if it does it's gone wrong or possibly user error, but I'd assume the first.
New one I ordered has twinhead
Accurate pressure gauge with cotton wool filter to stop tyre jizz buggerin the gubbins.
https://www.efficientvelo.com/product/bleedin-gauge/
But no price or stockists I can find.
The twinhead doesn't. Or shouldn't anyway, if it does it's gone wrong or possibly user error, but I'd assume the first.
I've had three (2 replacements) and they've all leaked (the last one so badly it would only get a road tyre to about 60psi).
Just ordered myself a Smarthead.
I have two track pumps - a high volume Lezyne only a few years old with a less than brilliant head and whose gauge stopped working recently; and a high pressure cheap one which is now 16 years old, squeaks like trampling mice when pumping and only struggles with totally flat tyres because the head doesn’t swap without a bit of back pressure.
I’d love a great and reliable track pump but I’ve never seen a consensus I trust!
For those people with the rennkompressors, what sort of force does it take to reach the higher pressures? I have a years old joeblow sport which at 58kgs I find damn hard work to reach the higher pressures. My specialized tubeless charger needs 160psi in order to mount tubeless and if I can get up to 160psi once then I'm lucky, never mind twice in case I didn't quite reach 160psi the first time!!
Could really do with a track pump that has a max psi of around 220 for the tubeless gadget but equally not require 12 stone in order to get there!
What is the Lezyne Digital Pressure Drive pump like? I like the idea of it.
Another vote for rennkompressor, I have a cheap Park one at work which seems ok and will be getting another to replace th joe blow we have. Never had any problem getting the rennkompressor up to 120psi
Northwind - MemberKlunk - Member
Joe Blow are excellent once you blank off the side you are not using otherwise they leak like hms qe
The twinhead doesn't. Or shouldn't anyway, if it does it's gone wrong or possibly user error, but I'd assume the first.
I've not had much luck with the Joe blow either.. only had it a year and it's leaking somewhere. Might try the Icetoolz pump.
I have an old specialized one probably about 10 years old. Still solid but I think the valve connector probably needs replacing as it sometimes doesn't go on so well.
On the back of this thread I added a smarthead hose onto my order for a new JoeBlow Sport....
Mine will be doing everything from tubeless MTB at 25psi to tubed track tyres at 120psi.