Absolutely stunning feel and machining. This is my first Silca product and it is clearly a cut above the rest. My only complaint is how fast the air comes out upon removing the valve. My assumption is that the rubber gasket needs to be more broken in, but I feel like I�m losing a good amount of PSI when I go to remove the valve head. It�s perfect otherwise and the Bluetooth readout is otherworldly.
Absolutely stunning feel and machining. This is my first Silca product and it is clearly a cut above the rest. My only complaint is how fast the air comes out upon removing the valve. My assumption is that the rubber gasket needs to be more broken in, but I feel like I�m losing a good amount of PSI when I go to remove the valve head. It�s perfect otherwise and the Bluetooth readout is otherworldly.
In short, this pump is a treasure.
It attaches cleanly, it delivers a good volume of air with every stroke, it cleans up easily, and it allows you to use your smartphone to precisely tune your pressures. I've switched to using this as my primary pump except when I need to add more than 20 PSI. Each stroke adds .5 PSI to my road tire setup, which has very high volume tires. It is trouble-free to get each tire to exactly 64 psi, where I like them to be.
The pump itself feels like you could use it to lever a boulder off of your leg, or effectively deter a dog from attaching itself to your leg, or to check the pressures on 10,000 bikes.
If you can score this for a two-digit price, it's an absolute no-brainer. And although the app they use is not the finest example of high-touch user interfaces, it does the job quickly and cleanly.
I love this pump.
We use this as our travel pump when we fly with our bikes. Each pump stroke is worth about 0.5psi on a 30mm gravel tire (Schwalbe G-1 speeds). The hose and chick protect the tubeless stems, the gauge as an app on your smartphone is nothing short of brilliant. Unlike many small pumps, this one actually works and works well.
Its expensive for sure, but youre getting a really good pump that really works well when most of the competitors actually dont work. Your also getting a digital tire gauge that exceeds the accuracy of actual hand gauges you can buy. Bottom line this pump is expensive but its worth it because it works so well.
I bought one of these kind as sort of an impulse purchase. I needed a good pump for traveling and I needed to be able to accurately inflate tires to pressure after deflating partially for air travel.
I was a bit skeptical since most small pumps have wildly inflated claims about how well they will pump up a tire and how effective they are when most of them are just this side of garbage. This pump, however, flips that narrative on its head.
The pump has a hose to a chuck so you don't damage valve stems which is helpful in general but exceptionally so when you have tubeless rims. And this pump just works - our travel bikes have Schwalbe G-1 speeds on them, a 30mm tire. We pump them up to about 50-65psi for riding and deflate them to about 40psi when traveling. We find that in that pressure range, we get about a 0.5psi increase for each pump stroke. Having the gauge built into the pump and displayed on a smartphone app is nothing short of brilliant. It's easy to see, it keeps the bulk down on the pump in both size and weight, and it works terrifically well.
So this is now our travel pump. It's small so it packs well in our bike cases and it is a pretty straightforward task to pump up our tires when we arrive, if we flat, or to top off for the day's riding.
This pump is not cheap, but considering all of the other similar sized pumps I've bought and discovered they basically are marginal, this is a great addition and I would have been serious money ahead if I'd bought this instead of all of those other pumps (Lezyne - I'm looking at you....).
I have no issues giving this an unqualified recommendation. But this, and buy only this for your emergency and travel pump. You'll be money ahead and your tires will be correctly inflated.
