The pump head works with both presta or Schrader valves, includes a bleed capacity to get pressure to an exact amount, and also doesn’t require too much of the valve to be exposed to get a good grip on it. Our tester also found enough air was delivered to seat tubeless tires, on occasion.

I've only just got my 1st bike with a Presta valve so up until now have just used the the compressor with the standard Schrader fitting for all the bikes and cars in the family but the new bike will be the one that probably wants doing on it's own most regularly and the compressor can be a bit of a faff just to do one bike.

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It isn't the smallest footprint, and it's also not the cheapest on the market, but if you are running a tubeless set-up, it provides both space and money saving with only one bike pump required. At 17cm long, it's shorter than others, such as the LifeLine Performance Road mini pump, but on test we found that it took 200 strokes to go from flat to 100psi, which is far better than most of a similar size. robgul wrote:Why not get one of the small ferrule adapters that screws on the Presta and connects to a Schraeder pump? Just be careful not to blow the tyre off the rim!! Cost pence, or I give them away in my shop.

Ideally pumping up a tire with a mini pump won't leave you so exhausted you need to go lie down before you hit the road again. The digital pressure gauge means that you can get precisely the pressure you need for off-road riding, where getting it just right, even down to the nearest 0.5psi, is more important than with road bike tires. Although designed for gravel tires, the 100psi maximum rating means that it's more than adequate for road bike tires as well. With huge experience, they're really well placed to compare products, identify their strengths and weaknesses and bring you an honest, unbiased assessment of how they perform. Alternatively what width hose the head will take if I buy one of these on it's own without the hoseWhile the lower pressures are easily reached, it's worth noting that on test it took a lot of leaning on to get much more air in per stroke once it got beyond 60psi. b) can't say I find it fiddly - unscrew the Presta stopper, screw on the adapter, connect the inflator hose. Simples