Reccomend me a road bike mini pump

The Silca tattico is a great little pump

Silca Gravelero or for something v compact the Moon Aiolos HP

I'm a Lezyne fan. You need a HP version in whatever length you fancy

If you run tubeless avoid anything that screws on as you unscrew you can take the core out

I've a selection of cheap pumps acquired over the years, which all work, although the smallest is a Giant one with a screw in adapter, which due to cold and hamfistedness partially removed and then snapped my at the time only valve core,  and best is the Lifeline mini track pump which is awesome for about £12 with a gauge, flexible hose and a snaplock head, but is a bit unwieldy in a jersey pocket..

The one I cart about the most is a Topeak Mini Dual pump which creates pressure in both pump directions, which is fine for gravel and MTB, but all of them except the mini track pump, require a lifetime, and serious effort to get a road tyre up to 80psi..

What is the difference between a £10 mini pump and a £125 mini pump.

Another fan of the Lezyne Pocket drive pump. It just works.

If you run tubeless avoid anything that screws on as you unscrew you can take the core out

Only if the core isn't done up properly, which can affect tubes as well. I have a Lezyne pump and this happened to me once about ten years ago. Lesson learned.

I have a lezene pump on one of my MTBs. The outer bit of the valve has rounded off and so the pump won't screw on.

The pump itself has been good for years.

I'll get a lezene one.

Thanks

Difficult to put into words but...

What helps a mini pump last, particular if mounted on the bike, is a wee cylinder of old inner tube placed over the handle and onto the barrel of the pump as it stops grit, mud etc from getting into the pump.

If you run tubeless avoid anything that screws on as you unscrew you can take the core out

If you are careless. If you uncsrew a valve core more than once, it's not the pumps fault.

Topeak mini morph on my commuter road bike. I took it on a training camp instead of a track pump. Otherwise Topeak micros work fine for me. Except when the spare inner tube has a puncture. I blamed the pump all the way home in the car. It wasn’t the pump.

https://www.topeak.com/global/en/product/248-MINI-MORPH

If you are careless. If you uncsrew a valve core more than once, it’s not the pumps fault.

Thing is when it's wet and cold and I just want to get going I want to be careless. Can't be bothered with screw on ones, they are an extra level of phaff that's not needed.

I borrowed my mates Topeak mini morph. It was great. However it takes an entire bottle cage and I regularly use two bottles.

My other road bike has a massive frame fit black burn pump that is awesome, but won’t fit this bike.

I just use zefal doodads and a variety of proper pumps for various bikes

I like the Blackburn air stick sl. £16 and very small and reliable.

I have a Topeak Road MasterBlaster, proper frame pump. I have used many different mini pumps/co2 etc. A frame pump is brilliant, it pumps road tyres to full pressure (80psi ish) no problem and very quickly. There is a weight penalty, but you're talking 100g or so.

I don't bother with co2 anymore. It's wasteful, as you have to take a mini pump anyway as a backup. So the weight of co2, infaltor head, mini pump and the mini pump mouting bracket probably all add up to being the same weight as the full frame pump.

I came here to say Topeak Pocket Rocket, I think you got unlucky.

I take a full frame pump. A Blackburn, was available in multiple lengths, the sprung bit locks down for pumping (rather than the handle bouncing each time), and the handle folds out to make it easy to pump. Makes the more inevitable puncturing far less of a faff.

I don’t get many punctures on my road bike. I’ve had two since autumn. Maybe 300 miles. Prior to that maybe 2 in 1500 miles.

And new tyres.

Lezyne

Seriously? Who uses Lezyne stuff, I must be at least 1/8th magpie given my attraction to shiny stuff. And every time I buy Lezyne stuff it bites me in the ass. The backpack was inherently unstable, the multitool had bits so short they couldn't even reach a shifter clamp, the pumps are the a mix of sharp edges and pointy bits designed to make pumping difficult.

Lezyne mini pumps are awesome. I have three - a micro one I can fit in a jersey for fast road rides, a normal mini frame pump, and one on my fiancee's bike too.

And FWIW, if you don't have tubeless, I think the push-on (rather than screw on) mini pumps are more likely to cause an issue, as you wobble the valve back and forth more and can potentially cause a split at the base where the stem joins the tube.

nanoFumpa https://www.fumpapumps.co.uk/products/nanofumpa

The backpack was inherently unstable, the multitool had bits so short they couldn’t even reach a shifter clamp, the pumps are the a mix of sharp edges and pointy bits designed to make pumping difficult.

I've only used their pump and it's great. I don't recognise your description at all.

Of course, the best solution is the Zefal HPX on my old steel roadie. But not exactly mini.

I borrowed my mates Topeak mini morph. It was great. However it takes an entire bottle cage and I regularly use two bottles.

Eh? Mine is mounted using the Topeak pump bracket on the downtube cage next to the Elite gel bottle cage. Doesn't interfere at all. I mount the smaller alloy Micro Rocket ALT on my Ti fixed wheel bike on the seat tube cage. I will confess that I chose that pump as it matches the shiny frame. For my other bikes, I carry a carbon Micro in my back pocket strapped to a folded inner tube as backup for when the first line spare in the seat pack and CO2 fails (or I have a second puncture).

I’ve only used their pump and it’s great. I don’t recognise your description at all.

The backpack had a normal 'backpack' bit for the bladder etc. Then a big expanding bit which would swallow a hemlet or waterproof. Then a solid (think like "molded fabric" the kind of material sunglasses cases are made from) tool storage compartment which was great for having all your pump, spare and tools in the right place, but mean all that heavy stuff was just flapping around in this oversized case even if you cinched every strap tight.

HV mini-pump. It's OK, but only OK. It works but there's no clever design to it beyond being shiny. If it was 2" longer it'd feel less infuriating when trying to inflate a decent sized tyre.

Micro-floor-drive-HV. It's not micro, it weighs half a pound. The adapter unscrews either the valve or itself, sometimes both. And that handle is just the least forgivable part of a hatefilled design. It's about 8-10mm diameter which would be uncomfortable anyway, and for added sadomasochism the cut out ends that trap the hose for storage are sharp.

The multitool is I think an old version of the RAP-13, most tools like that have bits as long as the body and they just overlap with the other side. Lezyne just cut them in half. Which means even doing up a seatpost requires half turns.

The only bike tools I've owned that were worse was a Brizman spoke key set that were too long to turn between the spokes on a normal wheel, and the key part was too chunky to reach the shimano factory wheel nipples it was supposedly designed for (i.e. someone clearly just input a dimension into the CAD model and pressed send to the factory, never actually made a prototype to test).

Topeak Mini Morph without gauge. And water bottle. Basically it’s riding with a tiny track pump. Absolutely brilliant piece of kit.

+1 for the tiny Lezyne ones. Suspect I've been carrying one in my jersey pocket for over a decade now, and used it many times. As you'd expect from the size, it's not the quickest, but it will get a decent pressure. The "unscrewing the valve core" thing is an issue, but it's solved by doing the cores up tight, and using the little button that releases the pressure from the tube.

How about the Cycplus. Pump  it’s expensive at  £80 but gets rave reviews and mebbe a co2 cartridge

What helps a mini pump last, particular if mounted on the bike, is a wee cylinder of old inner tube placed over the handle and onto the barrel of the pump as it stops grit, mud etc from getting into the pump.

Seconded. Those sleeves you get for co2 cannisters (the irony) are good for this. Available separately on eBay.

My Crank Bros Stirling pump (no gauge) must be 10+ years old and lives on the bike. It's definitely not lightweight!