Electric pump recommendation

I went with the Cycplus. The Fumpa gets good reviews too, but I reckon they're all much of muchness

Have a look at https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123112270#Comment_123112270

I have this one from Craft Cadence. It's been great so far.

Craft Cadence Electric Minipump | Digital PSI Gauge | 118 grams

Anyone any experience of this? It seems to be the only one available to buy over the local bike shop counters. But there's very little on line about them in terms of reviews

I wasn't so interested in one but it's been suggested as an ideal travel pump. If you take a bike in a bike box to Spain or wherever you have to deflate the tyres. You can't really bring a track pump. In the past I've brought an old school zefal hand pump and it's been only ok and we've been able to find a bike shop to pump tyres up properly, but one of these gizmos would be absolutely ideal.

I bought that one in CSS. Cool little thing. Though I doubt you'd get more than 2 goes out of it judging by battery depletion when I tried it once at home.

Coincidentally, we were coming back home over the gap this morning and met a poor wee urchin stranded on his S-Works winter bike ☺️. He had a cycplus mini pump and two attempts to reinflate had failed and depleted the battery. We did our season of goodwill duty and gave him a tube and an old school mini-pump to get him home. 🎄.

Moral of the story -bring spare spares to spare and backups to back up your backups

Did he say what the issue was? Wondering device error or operator error.

Was about to buy one, but if they're inconsistent I might save my beans.

Right. So I threw this back over the counter of CSS because it was a useless fuppin piece of zhit.

Brought it to Spain and did not do the job. Wouldn't hold a charge, would inflate to maybe 40psi on one tyre before the battery died. Recharge and it might take that tyre to 70 then another 2 charges to get it to 95 which was about the max, and that was PER TYRE!!! Of which there were 4.

Now, another shop told me that it should have performed much better than that and my particular unit must have been a lemon.

CSS took it back and their warranty guy when I returned thought it would be a positive customer experience to have a stand up argument with me on the shop floor because he had used others and tried mine and they were all fine 🙄.

Anyway, I was happy with store credit and I might in the meantime try a dearer one. 60 quid seems to be entry level. The cycplus is over 2x that.

Anyway. Buyer beware.

I don't get the obsession with these electric pumps. Just another thing to charge when a pump or C02 works fine. Plus the size and weight of the thing to carry around.

Kind of like Di2 really 😂

I find CO2 very fiddly and a bit hit and miss - especially with cold fingers. Are there any idiot-proof CO2 systems out there that literally a child could get to work 100% of the time?

Was going to pick up an electric pump but I think I'll pause for a while til more testimonials come in.

Trigger start is actually probably what I'm looking for, versus those screw on types that are more difficult to control.

Would you have a link to such a beast?

Always found co2 a faff to be honest. My electric pump for carrying is no bigger or heavier than 2xco2 plus the connector. Unless you're going frame mount (which is not without issues of dirt/ water ingress), a decent sized mini pump isn't that convenient to carry either.

But each to their own - already charging lights, computer - don't really see the big deal of something else, be that pump or shifting batteries.

It must be 20 yrs old at this stage so I dont think the exact model is sold anymore - this looks to be the newer version

https://www.sks-germany.com/en/Products/Pumps/AIRCHAMP-PRO-CO2.htm?a=article&ProdNr=10429&p=1008