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Mini Foot Pump?

M1Tanker

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Wednesday, January 18th 2012, 12:14am

Mini Foot Pump?

I'm looking at purchasing an air pump and specifically considering a mini foot pump. I have a 2008 BMW R1200GSA. I want to know if a mini foot pump is sufficient to pump up the tires after a tire change. If so, what brand of mini foot pump is recommended?

If a hand pump or a foot pump won't seat the bead then will the Cyclepump, Touratech Airpower 115, Slime, AirMAN, or Extreme Outback MotoAire compressor seat the bead?

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Wednesday, January 18th 2012, 7:00pm

I don’t think you’re going to be very happy after trying to seat the tire bead with a hand pump. First off you need to move the tire around sometimes to get the bead to start to seat. This would be difficult while trying to use a hand pump. The small electric pumps are a better bet. At least it will leave your hands free to beat, squeeze and turn the tire. But these are very low air volume output. This will also make it hard. I use my small 12v pump to adjust tire pressure. I lower my tire pressure when doing heavy off road. I raise it using this small pump. Unless your practicing tire changes in very remote areas. I would find someone with a big shop air compressor. If you are thinking about remote areas, I’d use a high press CO2 system to seat it and 12v pump to adjust once seated. My two cents.
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Tuesday, March 27th 2012, 1:57am

Agree with spacemec! Besides, you can get a cheap 12v tire pump for about the same price as a decent hand-or-foot one. I bought one at WallyWorld for $12, then simply removed the bulky plastic housing (which made it four times larger than needed). The pump now resides in a small leather pouch in my topcase.

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