RiDE did a guage test...i'm sure I've got it somewhere...if anyone is dying to know I'm sure the answers are in there somewhere...

Love the comeback.

Re: A dangerous freebie...
 

Cheers Burner, I got this too with my new Caberg, haven't tried it yet, but may well bin it when I get home, I'll stick to my foot pump.

And.... how dangerous is having them over over inflated?

I did go around for a week with my tires waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the 32, 36... 45? on a cold day? :oops:

I inflated them with a "bars" gauge in a Petrol station in Spain, when I came back and checked on a petrol station I almost fainted..

I was feeling them pretty unsecure and was taking my confidence away on any kind of cornering.

I was blasting it on the way back, so I guess that the candles to the "brainless and unready" bikers protector virgin did work in more than one way... :oops:

Ride recommend the 4.99 gauge from halfords over many more expensive and large ones, it's small and compact and accurate, at this price it's a steal. i suppose you could still end up with a faulty one though! :D .

Daryl

It says at Sainsburys petrol station that the petrol pumps are checked for accuracy by Trading Standards. Anyone know if they have to check air lines too?

Interesting point. I was always under the impression that Trading Standards were only for just that- Trading. Would it, therefore, be safe to assume that unless you have to make some sort of payment, ie 20p to start the compressor, Trading Standards would have no need or requirement to get involved?

Also, while we're on the subject, don't Weights & Measures have the necessary jurisdiction for calibration of equipment rather than Trading Standards?

I may, of course, be way off the mark. :D

I've had one of these for a few years now. Always reliable, easy to carry around and I trust it as well as any foot pump (they're always 1-2 psi different and I go with the Halfords gauge over the pump). I suspect if there are any dodgy ones out there they just missed in QC, it happens.

Aye I have one of them, usefull. Although I took it off my front tyre yesterday and the valve stayed open. It went down to 29 Psi.

Only one way to find out, I've emailed Shropshire Trading Standards to ask them. Will post their reply.

Ed

A while back one of the mags gave away a mechanical pen type, it was diabolical- not even accurate to itself. I use the wee halfords one as well, at the price you can consider them pretty much disposable, and by all accounts they're decently accurate.