Anyone have experience with this pump? Does it get the job done sufficiently to serve as a travel pump for taking on airplanes? I’m mostly looking for something to get my tires up to decent riding pressure when I initially arrive at a destination. I wouldn’t rely on it for race morning.
I have one. It works ok. It will inflate the tire with less strokes than the usual mini pump I have in my flat kit, but it still takes quite a bit of work to get the tires up to higher pressures.
When I travel with my bike I take a Lezyne travel drive.
When I travel with my bike I take a Lezyne travel drive.
I’m looking at that one too. I had one of the micro hand pumps and it’s about useless.
Hello THE_FRB and All,
Requires carrying a charger and maybe a spare battery … but you can easily inflate your tires while the bike is hanging in the garage.
Also you need to cut the hose and add a nice inflation chuck … like the Silca or
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It’s a great product - very well made and designed. Footpeg and bleed valve are great. Easy to carry and far more efficient than a small MTB style frame pump. One thing - I have to put some kind of a pad in my palm for any kind of serious pumping because the aluminum oval handle is, by necessity, small and can bruise your palm. A folded sock will do fine. The kind of product that as soon as you handle it you can tell that it is well above the norm for this sort of tool.
I used to work for Lezyne. I have this pump as well as a ton of other Lezyne stuff. It works well. For travel, excellent considering the size. Just make sure to maintain it every so often. People buy Lezyne stuff and then do no maintanence and complain about the pump or whatever not working. If you maintain anything it will last almost forever. If you don’t, well, you’re not too bright.
It works well as a travel pump. Light. Compact. Rebuildable. Get the one with the cage tho. It’s pretty accurate and helps
I used this while cycling the Blue Ridge Parkway. I had no trouble getting my tires up to pressure. Fantastic little pump. I really like the screw-on valve.
When I travel with my bike I take a Lezyne travel drive.
I’m looking at that one too. I had one of the micro hand pumps and it’s about useless.
I also bought the travel drive model last year and used it (for race day mornings) at several events. The size, without the tripod type base, easily fits in my backpack and works well…gauge seems accurate and fairly easy to read. The hose though is rather short and won’t reach the tire valve unless its ground level. I don’t like the threaded screw on type chuck so I got a different one. Unlike what other posters say *you do not have to cut the hose to remove the chuck"…*you just have to know how to remove it. Lezyne has a how to instructional video. Also unlike what a Lezyne rep told me, their dual valve head chuck will not accept a disc wheel crack pipe. I’d recommend.
I used to work for Lezyne. I have this pump as well as a ton of other Lezyne stuff. It works well. For travel, excellent considering the size. Just make sure to maintain it every so often. People buy Lezyne stuff and then do no maintanence and complain about the pump or whatever not working. If you maintain anything it will last almost forever. If you don’t, well, you’re not too bright.
It works well as a travel pump. Light. Compact. Rebuildable. Get the one with the cage tho. It’s pretty accurate and helps
I use an alloy drive since I dont road bike at all, and it has been a fantastic pump. In fact, I trust it so much I feel very comfortable relying on it thru some pretty remote bikepacking trips.
Curious ( and maybe their website will tell me ) about the maintenance you recommend as a former employee. I would like to keep it for a while!
Lezyne makes their own crack pipes. One in plastic and one alloy. The plastic one screws onto the gold ABS Flip Chuck. The alloy one does not. You remove the chuck all together.
I have both and they work well. The alloy one is beautiful and works well on disc wheels.
The maintenance is simple.
I do my floor pumps a couple times a year. But they get used a bunch and by a bunch of different people.
The floor pumps if used daily, do them like 2 times a year. A shop, do them every couple months.
Unscrew the top cap on the main barrel, clean the rubber o rings on the plunger. Take and put on some new grease. Put it back together. For the flip chick, clean it with a q tip or something and when done take some light oil like Tri Flow and lube the o rings.
The biggest issue is keeping things cleaned and lubed.
The smaller pumps have the same issues.
If you are using a floor pump and the handle drops really quickly it’s the main plunger o ring. It needs replaced. When you pull it you can see it looks square vs rounded. There are 3 of the exact same o rings in the pump. The main plunger seal. One floating on the plunger- a top out bumper. And one in the base- a bottom out bumper. They are all interchangeable. So if your handle drops like that, take one of the others and switch them out.
Cleaning out the old grease and putting new grease in will make things last longer. I have had my floor pumps for 3 years and never replaced a part on them. But I do maintenance to them. That’s the key.
Any other questions let me know. Happy to answer them.
It works well as a travel pump. Light. Compact. Rebuildable. Get the one with the cage tho. It’s pretty accurate and helps
Just to be clear - you’re talking about the Micro Drive HP, right? The aluminum Travel Drive is nice but costs almost 2X. My hesitation with the micro is that the last micro hand pump I tried (not Lezyne) was completely useless and I don’t want to make the same mistake again. I think my major issue with that one was that it had a little 10" hose and required pumping with both hands rather than sitting one end the floor like a standard pump. The Micro Drive HP looks like a good compromise with the base and foot peg.
bought and used one of these this year: excellent.
small and light, easily pumps up to high pressure.
mine came with the speed chuck which was needed to inflate my rear disc, worked perfectly.
as someone has already said best to use a glove or rag or something to put in the palm of your hand as the alu handle is quite small and can cause a bit of discomfort after a few pumps but that’s what you get as it’s a mini pump.
highly recommended.
Yes, i am talking about the Micro. The rebuilding process is the same for all of them. Just different sized o-rings.
Yes, the hose is short. But every micro pump is. And yep, the handle is small. If you are wanting to use it as a travel pump and NOT something you take on the bike though, replace the handle. If you are a handy person you can certainly make something. I know a couple people who did that as well as adding a second foot peg.
But yes, I was talking about the Micro HP.