Adventure Bike Rider Forum

well Dash I must have been unlucky in 2011 as I had 4 punctures all up the sals plain with shrapnel...apart from that nowt on the lanes..but I do [sad] drop road pressure at the trails and back up again to go home and change tyres at home far too much..thats not to mention the nipped tubes .

hence the earlier post about tyres as I`m sick of changing them around 4 times a year..winter/summer from now on.. :cheer:

I tried a pump but got hot and nowhere fast [wrong one maybe] but I like the electric pump :cheer:

dash wrote:Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had two punctures in a decade and about 60,000 miles of riding, both screws picked up in the tyre on tarmac roads, and both while commuting when I didn't (and still wouldn't) have tyre kit with me.

None in about 40 hours of enduro with 12psi in the tyres, none in about 20 hours of rallying and rally training on a big heavy bike, and none in thousands of miles of trail riding.

That's a lot of time carrying around a 12V compressor to potentially have had to blow up two tyres. Even a small compressor would double the weight of my trail-riding toolkit.

I've got to say that I've stopped carrying my compressor as it just wasn't worth the extra weight/bulk in comparison to the punctures I've had (2 in 4 years of trail riding), so now I just carry a spare front tube as I can stick it in the front or back of the bike.

Changing tyres at home doesn't count. I've got a proper compressor to do that.

I just run ~25psi all the time in the tyres, behaves well enough on- and off-tarmac. Let them down if you get stuck and really need the low pressure, otherwise keeping them pumped up probably helps with avoiding pinch punctures. If you're fiddling with pressures every time you go trail-riding then I can see why you might not want to do it by hand

Been carrying the older model of this one for several years.

No need to plug it in. No flat battery. Inflates faster than the electric ones too!

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=38883

Never seen the need to carry an electric pump.

Harty wrote:

dash wrote:Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had two punctures in a decade and about 60,000 miles of riding, both screws picked up in the tyre on tarmac roads, and both while commuting when I didn't (and still wouldn't) have tyre kit with me.

None in about 40 hours of enduro with 12psi in the tyres, none in about 20 hours of rallying and rally training on a big heavy bike, and none in thousands of miles of trail riding.

That's a lot of time carrying around a 12V compressor to potentially have had to blow up two tyres. Even a small compressor would double the weight of my trail-riding toolkit.

I've got to say that I've stopped carrying my compressor as it just wasn't worth the extra weight/bulk in comparison to the punctures I've had (2 in 4 years of trail riding), so now I just carry a spare front tube as I can stick it in the front or back of the bike.

what do you pump that spare front tube up with then?? :whistle: :whistle:

i bought a cheapie tesco compressor and took the plastics off as mentioned previously... the compressor itself easily fits in the palm of my manly hands, and the whole lot incl cables etc fits into the smallest kriega wallet and weighs about half a kilo... goes in my tank bag and gets forgot about... if i was trying to seriously save weight i'd go for a co2 pump, but i have yet to notice that extra half a kilogram affect the handling of my bike, but sure have noticed it when pumping and re-pumping tyres....