Bicycle Pumps Keep The Pressure Up

You need to carry a pump on your bike or one of the new compact pumps in your pocket. If you have a puncture in the middle of nowhere you need a spare inner tube and a pump to get home.

At home most cyclists keep a track pump to keep their tire up at the correct pressure, this helps your bike performance and your tires will last a lot longer. A track pump is a lot larger and you hold it down with your feet and use both hands to do the pumping also it has a gauge so that you know when your tires are hard enough.

When you go out on your bike you can fit a pump to the frame of your bike, frames used to have fittings on the bike for a pump, now your pump can slot on to the frame with an inbuilt spring.

With compact frame designs more people are using compact pumps that either bolt onto the frame at the bottle cage or you put it in your pocket with your spare inner tube or tubular. The smaller pumps don’t have gauges and can be hard work to blow up your high-pressure tires, but it will get your tires hard enough to get you home.

Of course you can always take your mobile phone with you and hope some kind person will come out and rescue you!