(and to answer the question, lately I’ve been carrying 2 spare tubes and a pump, after experiencing a double-tubeless disaster on flint and a very long walk/hitch home in the rain)
Usually carry a pump with me. Hardly ever need to use it but used it last weekend when my tubeless must have burped halfway down the hill, meant a quick inflate and i could carry on again
I use an 8 year old SKS Injex Lite pump. It’s on the big side, quite unfashionable, but seems to be impervious to water, mud and dust and pumps really well.
I’ve tried some sleeker smaller pumps meanwhile, but they all seem to either be just awful at what they do or just fall apart from exposure.
Lezyne Pressure Drive Mini for regular 2-3 hour rides (no pack) and Topeak Morph Turbo Mini for the now rare occasions i’m out for the day. Both date from 2007 and going strong!
What pumps are you call carrying though? Which are small enough to be handy and decent enough to pump up a flat tyre to decent pressure?
Truflo Minitrack. Won’t fit in a pocket though. It’s ace- telescopes but can also be used just as a single stage for higher pressure. It will unscrew a loose valve, to be fair, but not a properly fitted one.
Yeah, mostly. Xc race might be just a co2, or nothing. Bikepark – nothing as they have a trackpump in the cabin. Rest of the time, yeah a small leyzne pump.
Riding with kids – everything! Bigger Blackburn mammoth, tubes for all wheel sizes, tools galore, big pack for the inevitable clothes layers on and off.
