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Have you ever tried to inflate a bicycle inner tube with your mouth? First your cheeks puff out like balloons, then the blood rushes to your head until you finally, sobered but dizzy, turn to the air pump. There you put the pump head on the valve and with a few strokes of the piston rod the tyre is inflated again. No effort at all. A good bicycle floor pump belongs in every garage. Now nobody wants to buy a special model with a large volume for mountain bikes, one with high pressure for road bike tyres and a third for city bikes - of course they all exist. So we tested pumps that fulfil all requirements. 16 manufacturers sent in a suitable model for a maximum of 50 euros for comparison testing.
The requirements for a floor pump are not particularly high: the pump head should be easy to fit and close tightly around the valve, the pressure gauge should clearly and precisely indicate when the desired pressure has been reached. And while you force the air into the hose with a few strokes and as little effort as possible, the pump should stand securely on the ground. However, our test shows how difficult it is to combine all these criteria in a floor pump.
All test results of these 16 bicycle floor pumps with all data, score tables and grades can be found as a PDF in the download area below:
- Acid Race Floor
- BBB Air Storm
- Birzman Maha Push & Twist V
- Blackburn Piston 2DH
- Bontrager Charger Floor Pump
- ConTec Air Support Sport
- Crankbrothers Sapphire Floor Pump
- Lezyne Macro Floor Drive
- Merida floor pump 160 PSI
- Pedro's Domestique Floor Pump
- Pro Competition
- Procraft floor pump Procraft
- Rose pressuriser AL260
- SKS Airworx 10.0
- Topeak Joe Blow Sport III
- Zefal Profile Max FP30
You can find the complete comparison test including all data, points tables and the score overview in BIKE 3/2019. The comparison test costs € 1.99 as a PDF. Why not free of charge? Because quality journalism has a price. In return, we guarantee independence and objectivity. This applies in particular to the tests in BIKE. We don't pay for them, but the opposite is the case: we charge for them, hundreds of thousands of euros every year.
You can read the entire digital edition in the BIKE app (iTunes and Google Play) or the print edition in the DK shop reorder - while stocks last:
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Stefan Frey
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