Maurice Wibblington wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:01:45 +0100, "Pete Biggs"
wrote:

Zéfal HPX is, IMO, the best full-length pump to put on the bike.
It's tough and reliable and the barrel is just right to manage high
pressure and a decent volume per stroke as well. The spring
lock-out feature is particularly nice. Twiddle a knob and the
spring effectively disappears so there's nothing to compress but air
at the end of each stroke. It is quite heavy, though, and you look
like an armed robber while carrying it around the shops. (Cue jokes
about blowing up the gaff).

if it's quite heavy, and you hopefully won't be needing a pump that
often, surely it would make more sense to carry a lightweight
bogstandard pump?

Might only be needed occasionally but it'd be a shame if one of those
occasions was in the middle of what would have been your best ride ever and
your bog standard pump failed to deliver decent pressure, or broke.

To save space & weight, I like the combination of a super-light mini
pump and a CO2 inflator. (That's two separate products to get the
best of both worlds, rather than a combined unit).

a superlight mini pump I can understand, but a CO2 inflator?

Full pressure in three seconds from a tiny device, for virtually no physical
effort.

~PB