I like the look of this pump but it is £29.99 at EBC. Anyone have a view? Comes with old style hose you screw on to the valve which is my preference over fiddling. Might google to see if cheaper anywhere else then EBC price match. Can get it for £23.98 at Tredz
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Lezyne mini pump with hose
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Posted 9 years ago #
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A very good pump. The hose makes it easy to use without breaking the valve.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I have it and traded my other one to Chdot also. They're good we pumps so long as you don't lose the little rubber O-ring seals.
They are well made, nicely machined out of blocks of aluminium or whatever, like most of Lezyne's stuff. Also, the screw-on fitting I much prefer to those daft little clamp-on ones which oblige you to hold the pump pretty much rigid over the valve, running the risk of tearing the valve stem.
I've probably binned enough cheaper, useless pumps to mean it was a good investment, had it for 3 or 4 years now.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Have one. It's such a short chamber it can't get up to more than 50p.s.i. (and only then with extreme patience) but the hose is handy.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Picked up the medium size alloy drive mini today from Halfords. Had the 20% deal from Monday plus British Cycling discount so worked out about £19. Very nice pump but a little diddly to assemble. Slightly prefer the Topeak Racerocket although it's much less user serviceable
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EBC good for instant price matching.
I have the Lezyne Road Drive, I think. I read there's a wee issue with people trying to unscrew the hose from the valve while it's hot from use and inadvertently unscrewing the valve from the inner tube. Apparently that's a tricky thing to fix without a tiny screw driver or something. Never been a problem for me, good to watch out for though, don't unscrew the hose when hot. Great pump, only 40g over the lightest on the market and very useable up to 100psi.
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I think my pump is the Road Drive too. It's about 10 inches long. Reliable gets you to around 100psi, but not much more. I've had the valve stems unscrew on me before unexpectedly! The solution is whenever you buy a new tube that has a removable stem core (for when you need to use a stem extender for deep-dish wheels), is to use some pliers to make sure the stem core is well tightened into the stem outer - factory tightness seems only to be finger tight, which isn't an issue if you use a clamping pump, but is for the threaded pumps.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I've got the pressure drive mini pump. It's small enough to fit in a saddle bag but can still get my tyres to around 90psi.
I've had a valve core come out on me in the past so now always use pliers to tighten them on new tubes. It's useful to know that hot valves are more prone to loosing the core too.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Is the pressure drive the one with the in-line pressure gauge on the pump hose? I got one of those to take touring but found that the O-ring seals failed where the hose joined the pump base at 180degree angle. I should have really sent it back, but threw it in the bin instead.
I have the steel floordrive pump too which is great. Actually it's worth pointing out that I've had problems with the o-rings in most of my Lezyne pumps but these have been solved by unscrewing the components, greasing the threads and then carefully screwing back together. They were well manufactured but poorly assembled in my opinion.
Posted 9 years ago # -
My pressure drive doesn't have a gauge on it and google suggest the current model doesn't either. The pressure name comes from it being a low volume high pressure pump optimised for road tyres rather than their high volume (HV?) pump which will pump fat tyres up faster but struggle to get anywhere near enough pressure for skinny tyres.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I might need a demo of this plier tightening malarkey, I imagine I would break the valve If I went at it with pliers
Posted 9 years ago #
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