in message , Maurice
Wibblington ('pimple@arse/met') 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?


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?

It takes a lot of work to get up to pressure with a mini pump.

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