Bike pump
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The 4C comes with an electric compressor (so did my former Cayman), but this is honestly faster and less hassle. The gauge is easy enough to eyeball within 1 psi.
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It's all fun and games until you get a flat truck tire!
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I used to do this when I had a leaky Nokian WR, every month bust out the old bicycle pump to put in 10psi. Found out I had screw through the meat of the tread block much later, the leak was surprisingly slow.
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I keep one of these under pressure and with a digital gauge on it all the time. makes topping up tires a walk in the park
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@chan I've done that before too, it works!
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@peter_black That's definitely handy!
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Good call. I just bought one of these for my bike and car tire needs. I used a Zefal hand pump Saturday on my bike, but that gets old real fast. I like something that can do both.
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@chan I keep a bike pump in the trunk of my MINI under the false floor. Slow leak front left tire means I get the pump out every other week or so and put in 6-8psi in just a minute or so. So easy.
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@chariotoflove said in Bike pump:
Good call. I just bought one of these for my bike and car tire needs. I used a Zefal hand pump Saturday on my bike, but that gets old real fast. I like something that can do both.
Hey! That's neat!
adds to wish list
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@chariotoflove Yep my friend in Hong Kong got one of these compressors because of the small form factor. Hand-crank pumps sound awful; nice thing about a full size floor pump is that it's quite fast.
Is yours reasonably quick?
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Is yours reasonably quick?
I'll have to let you know. It arrives tomorrow. You can get these at Amazon in different flavors from different makers for around $35-45. The last one I had was pretty fast and programmable. It worked great, and the compressor still works well. However, the nozzle failed, and I couldn't get the company to respond to my emails for warranty replacement. So that's a caveat even with Amazon sellers. My solution in getting this new one was to select one with a standard hose fitting that will be easily and cheaply replaced if the problem happens again.
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@chan I keep a full size bike pump with me in the Crosstrek. Growing up my dad kept a full size bike pump and a tire iron cross in any car we took longer distances.
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@chan sadly that doesn't work for ute and van tyres due to volume reasons...on the upside though, virtually every cordless tool marketer supplies a battery inflator skin like Makita's DMP180Z.
