Trek Joins Electric Mini Pump Race with Impressive Air Rush

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Can someone please come out with one that uses a replaceable battery (18650 or 21700)? You can still recharge them in-device, but you wouldn't be forced to buy into planned obsolescence.
- Now that I would actually consider getting! My bike already uses a 21700 light and I use 18650s in most of my flashlights.
  Being able to swap out a dead battery and carry spares would eliminate my primary concern about battery powered pumps.
  
  Yup. I tend to prefer that my flashlights and bike lights also use those batteries, and there's no reason why these small pumps can't (at least not the TINY mini pumps).

I'll be sticking with hand pumps I think: There's no battery to fail and the travel ones are pretty light.
I recommend the Topeak Morph series for use on the road and I use a Joe Blow at home that also works very well (I've even used it to inflate car tires before).

I don’t understand this. Manual pumps are refined, reliable, light, and cheap. This is the equivalent of circling the gym parking lot looking for a close spot so you don’t have to walk before your workout.
- Big high psi tires are a lot to pump up sometimes, but cartridges seem to be the preferred method there.

So counter-intuitive that such a tiny motor and battery could produce the virtual elbow grease needed for 90 psi.

Everyone's rushing in rebranding / customizing these pumps. There's some pretty good models for what they actually cost on AliExpress. I recently set out to find the exact model SILCA rebadged and I found it, but then I found another that looked better and ordered that. It's been pretty good so far. Looks very well made.

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