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Not getting on with the handheld ones. Does anyone know of a floor standing one, like a track pump?
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Andy
what aspect are you not getting on with - surely not the effort required to pump up ?
No, it's not so much that. The thing that bothers me is that none of the ones I've seen look particularly robust, & I just think a floorstanding pump would be easier to use, especially given the pressures involved & that (it seems to me) pumping the shock up is very much a pre-ride thing.
Most people wouldn't use a portable pump to pump up road tyres to 800kPa; shock pressures are higher so surely there must be a floor pump available?
Of course, I may just be being dense.
Andy
Have you ever pumped up a shock?
a) I haven't pumped up my forks in over a year
b) It takes a relatively minimal number of strokes to get it up (fnarr fnarr!)
c) as for them not being robust enough, I've only ever used one in 10 years and it still works.
The only reason floor pumps exist (I reckon) is to get lots of air into a tyre fast. Either a big tyre or a small one at high pressure. Being as there is so little air in a fork or shock, and normal shock pumps are fast and easy to use, why on earth would you need anything bigger? Even if it exists, that is, which I doubt, TBH....
So, basically - You don't need one. End of thread. 🙂
I am surprised nobody has thought of this before, great idea.
A compressor is what you really want.
you'd need to pump 1.5metres of hose up to 180psi or something and could't use that big a bodied pump so you'd be there for hours?
decent shock pumps are better built and more accurate for pressure than any floor stand tyre pump.
Robust?
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=7355 ]This one[/url] has lived in my backpack for a good few years and still going strong.