rekmeyata

Good luck with that. Someday after walking home you're going to wish you had a pump. By the way, I've had flats with Mr Tuffy's installed in a kevlar belted tire, a Goathead thorn penetrated both, not once but many times in fact. If a goathead can penetrate both I have feeling so can other things, what do you think? Oh well, you don't need a pump, you can take out your cell phone and call your mommy, I'm sure she'll come to rescue her little boy.

erig007

I already got a flat before I put Mr Tuffy and i was able to ride 5 miles up to my home before the tire is totally flat.
Even tho I would have a flat it's not the end of the world there are many ways to solve a problem not just one.
One way is to take the bus as some of them accept bicycles if not then putting some clothes inside the tire work too. Walking is an option too.
And regarding my hypothetical mommy don't try to make assumptions regarding the family of someone else. You don't know me and i don't know you. No need to go into this kind of arguing.

ChrisM2097

Same here. I've had it about a year, and have used it several times. I can't seem to get it to go over 115psi - but I'm OK with that.

JanMM

Mini-Morph carried in pannier on my commuter 'bent.
Road Morph G on the frame of my other single 'bent.
Mountain Morph on the frame of our tandem 'bent.
Lucky enough not to have used them because my only flats in recent years have happened in the garage. (sound of rapping on head)

maidenfan

Me too. Takes a while w/the big volume mtb tires though. Great pump though.

maximushq2

I've had a Topeak Turbo Morph forever which does the job. The pressure gauge isn't working though, but it's not a big deal to me anyway. I just picked up a smaller pump (Topeak Pocket Rocket Master Blaster) to mount on a different bike that arrived just yesterday. I like how small and light weight it is and I tested it out on a tire and although not the fastest, it pumped it up just fine. I have a CO2 pump that I'm not using b/c I feel more confident having an actual pump along me.

I had a flat the other day for the first time this year. The next day after a long ride I found a piece of glass in the tire. I found out those stick on skab patches I had only held air for about two days in the tire I patched. At least it would get me home so they aren't totally worthless. I ordered up a different patch kit on amazon that day that seem to have good reviews. It's made by Rema and has an actual tube of glue, sandpaper, and some rubbery patches. Hope they hold up better than the skab stick on patches.

scaryseth

Great idea about the tape over the nozzle. I will be doing that this weekend to mine.

silmarillion

12 gauge Mosberg.

gregjones

I got one because of the BF reviews and number of recommendations, not because of experience. It worked at home.......should work fine on the road.

krobinson103

Riding on a flat is like trying to ride with slicks in mud... no fun at all. If I get stranded 100km from home and yes I have no other way of getting back bar what I have with me - then I don't want to spend 14 hours getting back! A spare tube, repair kit, and pump don't weight much or take much space. Also riding on rims for any extended period of time is going to to bad things to them. Still, it your bike and your money so have fun with that option.

erig007

You just read what you want to read there are other sentences in my text. And here it's the commuting section. If your commute is 100km, i say wow respect! For touring for sure i would bring the necessary kit but i won't bring a kit 364 days per year for commuting just for having possibly a flat once a year which is not by the way since i haven't had a flat since i put a mr tuffy liner which is nearly 2 years from now. So for close to 730 days i didn't have that extra weight to carry and have had extra room available

It already happened to me if you read my previous post and my rims are just fine

Mark Stone

A couple of yen for a set of patches and glue, a couple more pesos for a spare tube, fifteen bucks for a frame pump. Then when Mother Nature bites one of your tires, about 5 minutes of relaxing "work" means you can continue your ride. I don't understand the logic behind not being prepared for mechanical failure on the road, and then recommending it to others. I haven't had a flat since 2006 but I'm at least prepared. Rims aren't cheap if you ride them nekkid! Take our advice - get a patch kit, tube and pump . . . it's "Bike 101".

ephin

Topeak mini morph. Easy to use (the foot peg, horizontal handle, and flexible hose nozzle allows it to work like a floor pump). Small enough to fit in a jersey pocket. My roadside repair kit contains a spare tube in its own ziplock Baggie; a park mt1 multitool, 2 tire levers, $10, and a glueless patch kit in another Baggie. I wrap the baggies around the pump and hold it all together with a rubber band. Easily fits in a jersey pocket with plenty of space left for phone, nutrition, doffed arm warmers/vest. Easy to swap among my bikes (just have to swap out for bigger tubes if I'm riding my cross or Mtb). I like to travel light and don't like fumbling with seat packs among my many bikes (ie I'd have to get a seat pack for every one or keep moving one from bike to bike).

rekmeyata

Why do you carry so many bent pumps? hehehehee!!!

erig007

I'm prepared just like you but i rely on more than one solution not just patches and pumps
You already choose another solution by riding a bicycle rather than driving a car for your commute. I've met drivers who think that a car is the only way to commute. When you ride a bike you realize it's not. So why do you keep thinking that repair kits and pump are the way to deals with flats while commuting?

mconlonx

Stalwart commuter setup: Bontrager Air Rush Road -- convenience/speed of CO2; micro pump backup if needed.

On most other bikes, just CO2 inflator.

Mark Stone

Seriously, what would be your serious response to my post?

rekmeyata

So erig666, if you have a flat what are going to do? You said you have other ways to deal with that, do tell!

mconlonx

I carry flat repair gear to ward off flats. I have an irrational fear that the time I'm not carrying flat repair kit is when I will need it.

Better to have flat repair capacity and not need it than need it and not have it...

erig007

I've already answered your post and you have already answered mine. It goes circling. The fact is there are several solutions to the flat problem. Your solution is one mine is another one. In my case the way my bicycle is designed (thief deterrent), it take so long to remove a wheel that i will be home before i finish changing a tire. Not worth changing on the road and unnecessary.
In fact, i bought all the necessary gear a few years back when i hadn't thought through about the other solutions but it stays in the locker. For me something which stays in a locker for several years without being moved is pretty synonymous to useless.

it's written in my previous post.

There are several options particularly if you have added puncture proof tires and puncture proof liners because the risk of having a flat is much less likely:
-take the bus
-walk
-patch the tire from outside with some tape, glue, gum, nitrile gloves + ties etc.. to slow down the flat
-fill the tire with what you've got (clothes, paper, grass or whatever)
-ride with a flat tire
-hitchhiking
-etc..

Mark Stone

You would rather ride a bus, walk, patch a tire from the outside with chewing gum, stuff it with clothing, hitch-hike or walk rather than the extremely easy 4 or 5 minute repair? Gracious me.

erig007

Again have you read my other posts?
First it wouldn't take me 5 minutes to change a tire but way more on my bike
Secondly, it avoid me to buy and bring all the necessary kits all the time for no use except the hypothetical flat that i will have in year 2020 (i remind you that i have a puncture proof liner)
What i would do and have done when i didn't have a liner inside the tires as i already said before is ride home while the tire is getting flat. For the 5 miles I did up to my home the flat just barely slowed me down

scaryseth

It does not matter, the focus is being taken away from the original question about what pump everyone uses. Not just about one persons choices on how to deal with a flat.

Just sayin

Mark Stone

Absolutely true Seth, but with the side note that not a single thread in the history of BikeForums has ever stayed on topic, lol! I use a Topeak Road Morph on my frame, and a Topeak Joe Blow in my garage.

rekmeyata

There is no such thing as puncture proof tires, liners, or tubes, someday you're going to discover that.