Pumping up tyres - how do people achieve 100psi ?

[Randochap]

A quick look around the Internets sez you can get a Beto track pump over there for about 15 quid.

Had mine for 3 years of good service pumping tyres on my 3 bikes, visitors and including a trip to PBP, in '07, where the whole motel full of randonneurs used it.

 

[MajorMantra]

A quick look around the Internets sez you can get a Beto track pump over there for about 15 quid.

That's the one I have and it works fine. It's physically pretty well identical to the slightly cheaper Tesco one though, I suspect many of these pumps may come from the same source.

Matthew

 

[GrahamG]

Incidentally, I've also used a track pump to pump car tyres. Hard work.

In short, if you have a car and a bike, and you can only afford one workshop pump, get a single-barrelled car pump.

That's crazy, a foot pump has a tiny chamber and takes ages to get any air into larger tyres, and I find the track pump great for doing the car tyres too - of course that might be my erm.. 'bulk' .

 

[Iainj837]

its not the body that needs to be metal necessarily Its the pump piston rod and top T handle that needs to be metal/robust.
I'd recommend the Wrench Force track pump .It has a solid metal pump piston rod and handle which are unbreakable and costs about £10.00

http://www.bionicsports.com/acatalog/floor_pumps.html
shop around as these go for £10.00 on ebay and other places

I agree I have one simlier to this one mine was £14 from Asda I think.
I have a mini pump for out on the road but could do with one that is easy to use thakes ages and I can never get 100 psi

 

[Over The Hill]

Not had a visit from You Know Who for about 1500 miles - mostly on fairly rough back lanes with pot holes and gravel on them, so I may be lucky or it may not make a difference!

The flex of the rubber may throw off stuck-on grit or sharps.

 

[Amanda P]

That's crazy, a foot pump has a tiny chamber and takes ages to get any air into larger tyres, and I find the track pump great for doing the car tyres too - of course that might be my erm.. 'bulk' .

Agreed - when the tyre is a 4x4 truck tyre, it takes ages.

When it's a bike tyre, it's no problem at all. In fact, the chamber is about the same diameter as a track pump, just a bit shorter. I find it easier to pump using my big cycling muscles than with my rather weedy arms and shoulders!

We have a double-barelled car pump at work. Funnily enough, it pumps up truck tyres at twice the speed, but it's bloody hard work getting a bike tyre up to 120 psi with it!

 

[jimboalee]

A track pump is the best bet for getting the tyres to pressure when you are starting off from somewhere where it can be locked away while you are riding ( home; or the car at Audax starts ), but a Zefal HP micro pump with a sliding gauge is the jobbie for your PRK.