Blackburn Airstik 2 Longneck pump review
Innovative mini pump
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Blackburn’s latest mini pump has a novel selling point – a head connected by a telephone-cable-like extending tube.
It means that when you’re pumping up tyres you’re not putting so much strain on the valve and you can pump in a more comfortable position.
But it suffers the same problems as all small pumps, and takes over 100 strokes to get a road tyre up to 100psi. We also found that the part of the pump that you grip with the pumping hand is very short.
This means it doesn’t allow you to get a good or comfortable grip. That said, we’d very much like to see that same head arrangement on a larger pump.
Authors
Simon Withers is a freelance cycling writer and bike tester. He has been cycling for as long as he can remember, and more seriously since his time at university in the 1980s. Simon has ridden and raced almost every type of bike over the years and has toured extensively in Asia and Australasia, including riding solo 2,900km from Cairns to Melbourne. He’s been testing bikes and working for BikeRadar and Cycling Plus in various capacities for two decades. Simon has ridden and reviewed countless bikes and products, and specialises in affordable road bikes, gravel bikes and cycling kit, helping riders understand what’s really worth their hard-earned money.
