I looked over at unicycle.com for pumps and I couldn’t find any. I don’t know why I couldn’t locate one.
Anyway, after looking, I decided to ask here. What is a good pump to get for my unicycle? Obviously, I have the “standard” tire valve in my unicycle … at least I think they all use that kind.
Features I want:
Supports Standard Valve (prefer it to be exclusive).
Supports 85 Psi or more … at least the IRC Duro Metro 2.0 Seems to go to 85 Psi, so I’d prefer to be able to pump it to that. If you think more is better in your recommendation, go for it.
Has an accurate, reliable guage that will tell me the pressure to which a tire is inflated.
I don’t mind if the pump is large or small; in fact, recommending one of each size would be fine, since it would be nice to have an easy-to-carry pump and a normal one.
>
> All,
>
> I looked over at unicycle.com for pumps and I couldn’t find any. I don’t
> know why I couldn’t locate one.
>
> Anyway, after looking, I decided to ask here. What is a good pump to get
> for my unicycle? Obviously, I have the “standard” tire valve in my
> unicycle … at least I think they all use that kind.
>
> Features I want:
>
> * Supports Standard Valve (prefer it to be exclusive).
>
> * Supports 85 Psi or more … at least the IRC Duro Metro 2.0 Seems to
> go to 85 Psi, so I’d prefer to be able to pump it to that. If you think
> more is better in your recommendation, go for it.
>
> * Has an accurate, reliable guage that will tell me the pressure to
> which a tire is inflated.
>
> I don’t mind if the pump is large or small; in fact, recommending one of
> each size would be fine, since it would be nice to have an easy-to-carry
> pump and a normal one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lewis
>
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> Animation - I unicycle in Mississippi too.
>
> Lewis W Beard
> lewis@lwb.org
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I like the Topeak Road Morph. It has a built-in guage, handles high pressures,
is very compact, and is easy to use–because it “morphs” into a floor-style
pump. I carry it in my Camelbak. A rather lengthy link to some info is below:
“Animation” <Animation.1rpam@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:Animation.1rpam@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
> Anyway, after looking, I decided to ask here. What is a good pump to get
> for my unicycle? Obviously, I have the “standard” tire valve in my
> unicycle … at least I think they all use that kind.
>
> * Supports Standard Valve (prefer it to be exclusive).
Pretty much all pumps work fine with Schraeder (normal unicycle) valves, A
lot of pumps don’t work with Presta valves even when advertised as doing so,
but you don’t need to worry about that.
> * Supports 85 Psi or more … at least the IRC Duro Metro 2.0 Seems to
> go to 85 Psi, so I’d prefer to be able to pump it to that. If you think
> more is better in your recommendation, go for it.
I’d say 100 is the max you need on a unicycle pump, I use that sometimes for
road riding although it’s very bumpy. It’s much easier to get high pressures
on something that goes a bit higher than the pressure you want. I use a
track pump (with a gauge) for pumping up at home, and a cheap handheld pump
for riding.
I’d recommend having two pumps just because track pumps are so easy to pump
up with when you’re at home, and you don’t want to carry anything big around
with you. I’ve got a blackburn sport floor pump which was cheap, is lifetime
guaranteed and appears to work just fine for me. My handheld pump is a
“Wrench Force” cheapo one which does the job, but probably won’t put very
high pressures into a tyre. I didn’t bother with a gauge for use on rides
cos I can never be bothered to pump up tyres extremely hard while I’m out
anyway.