Recommend a digital pressure guage?

[Chap sur le velo]

From £7.99 on Amazon to £112.99 on Wiggle there's quite the choice. I'm not obsessive about the pressure and wont use it that often, but don't want to take a floor standing pump on holidays.
Accurate to + or - 2lbs would work for me.

Which one offers value to you?

 

[vickster]

Get a mini pump with a gauge?

 

[Chap sur le velo]

Bought a mini pump with digital display and it read 10lbs less than the floor standing one. Sent it back.

Anyone?

 

[DCBassman]

If Presta valves, a better mini-pump. If Schrader, a cheapie gauge from Halfords.

 

[T4tomo]

Your question is little odd, as a pressure gauge is not a substitute for a track pump?
Either you don't take a pump on hols, but have pumped tyres to desired pressure before you go, and presumably have a mini pump with you incase of deflationary events?
Or maybe not, maybe you relay on co2 only??
Or if hiring a bike, use the track pump at the hire shop or request your desired pressure??

 

[figbat]

Out of interest, how is anyone able to know the accuracy of a gauge (whether digital or analogue) unless it is certified against an established reference? You state that you have found one gauge to read less than another - but which was right?

 

[fossyant]

Topeak Road Morph with guage. Good enough.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

No real experience with bikes, but for cars with Schrader valves I have a PCL calibrated gauge, although a few years since it was calibrated, we tested a few relatively inexpensive digital ones & none were very good, the old style blow out ones were better. But that won't help with Presta ones as they don't go high enough or fit for that matter.

 

[Gillstay]

Out of interest, how is anyone able to know the accuracy of a gauge (whether digital or analogue) unless it is certified against an established reference? You state that you have found one gauge to read less than another - but which was right?

I did some work on car ones a few years ago and had them tested at Guildford Uni. The 1960's Dunlop pencil gauges were much better than the expensive digital one I had just bought. The pencil ones from a firm in Sheffield were even better.
So now if I need to test a shrader track pump, I check a car tyre with my pencil gauge then, use the track pump to see if it matches it.
Can dig out the gauge and find the firm if anyone is interested.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bought a mini pump with digital display and it read 10lbs less than the floor standing one. Sent it back.

Anyone?

You sent the floor standing one back?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Can dig out the gauge and find the firm if anyone is interested.

Won't help anybody unfortunately nothing is made in Sheffield anymore

 

[markemark]

Quick squeeze of the side walls is enough to know if it’s up to the pressure I want ot not.

 

[Gillstay]

Won't help anybody unfortunately nothing is made in Sheffield anymore

Cripes, knock the whole city why don't you! I got two pairs of victorian superb scissors restored there and PCL tire pressure gauges are still made there. Super accurate, and the one I still have. So well worth checking on.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Cripes, knock the whole city why don't you! I got two pairs of victorian superb scissors restored there and PCL tire pressure gauges are still made there. Super accurate, and the one I still have. So well worth checking on.

If you check what & how much was made here, then compare it with what now is, yes an exaggeration but it does feel that way, but I suppose it's only the same as our other once great industrial cities.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

If you check what & how much was made here, then compare it with what now is, yes an exaggeration but it does feel that way, but I suppose it's only the same as our other once great industrial cities.

The new titanium brompton frames are made in Sheffield.