It doesn’t matter what sort of bike you journey—highway bike or mountain bike, seaside cruiser or hybrid, ebike or unicycle—you want a method to inflate its tires.
After testing 35 pumps over the previous six years, we consider the Lezyne Basic Ground Drive 3.5 is the perfect flooring pump for many bike commuters due to its sturdy development, easy-to-read dial, and totally dependable screw-on head (which inserts each Presta and Schrader valves).
We even have a choose for a conveyable pump to make use of whilst you’re out on a journey.
Our choose
Lezyne Basic Ground Drive 3.5
This principally steel pump is a great purchase, from its extra-large strain gauge to its not too long ago redesigned screw-on pump head.
A very powerful factor a pump can do isn’t frustrate you. Our choose, the Lezyne Basic Ground Drive 3.5, excels on this job as a result of design of its pump head, which you screw securely—fairly than wedge—onto your valve. It combines an L-shaped head that’s refreshingly simple to suit between spokes with a detachable and reversible chuck (one finish suits Schrader tire valves; the opposite, Presta valves). When you’ve screwed the pump head onto your tire’s valve, the Basic Ground Drive won’t ever, ever launch the valve till you need it to. As well as, its sturdy development, extra-large strain gauge, extra-long hose, and varnished wood deal with make it easy, and even pleasing, to make use of.
Price range choose
Planet Bike ALX 2
Although not the most cost effective pump we examined, the distinction in high quality between a $30 pump and this one is astounding. The drawbacks: its plastic, wedge-on pump head and really brief hose.
Shopping for Choices
*On the time of publishing, the worth was $60.
With extra high-quality components than something comparably priced, the Planet Bike ALX 2 is, we consider, the only option for somebody who doesn’t journey each day or each week. It has a metal base and barrel—actually, the one plastic half is the pump head, which you push onto the valve and lock with a lever. That head is one purpose this pump isn’t our high choose; the pump’s very brief hose is one other. That stated, the ALX 2 inflated tires quicker than nearly each pump we checked out, together with the Lezyne Basic Ground Drive and the expensive Specialised Air Software Professional. Our testers additionally rated it extremely in each steadiness and usefulness—the huge wood deal with actually helps with that. As well as, that is the one pump we discovered that comes with a restricted lifetime guarantee, which is a lot better than the industry-standard two years.
Improve choose
Specialised Air Software Professional
Though this pump is costly, its snug, generously sized deal with, ultra-visible gauge, and intensely secure base make it the pump to get when you’ll be utilizing it rather a lot.
The Specialised Air Software Professional was a tester favourite. It’s almost twice the worth, nevertheless it doesn’t have twice the options of the Lezyne Basic, and that’s why it isn’t our high choose. But it surely’s so secure and simple to make use of—with a generously huge deal with and durable base—that we expect somebody who rides rather a lot and has to make use of a pump usually can be enamored with the improve in efficiency.
Additionally nice
Lezyne Stress Drive
Versatile and compact, this pump will fill the flat-fixing wants of any commuter whereas on the highway.
The Lezyne Stress Drive is a neatly designed handheld bike pump able to filling the kinds of tires most often utilized by leisure riders. The truth is, it really works higher with completely different tire sizes than the opposite moveable pumps we examined. This pump screws securely (through a removable hose) to inner-tube valves, and its all-aluminum physique has a clean, environment friendly stroke. It’s sufficiently small to hold in a jersey pocket but in addition comes with a bracket which you could connect to your body. Like all of our picks, it really works with each Presta and Schrader valves, the 2 customary sorts of bike-tube valves within the US. It is available in two sizes, the “small” being about 7.25 inches in size (together with the rubber seals and caps), and the “medium” rather less than two inches longer than that. The worth is similar; we’d suggest getting the smaller one except you’ve gotten very massive palms.
