Silca introduces mini pump with added Bluetooth technology!

Hear that wooshing sound? It's the sound of one million millenials rushing to buy this asinine device.

It occurs to me that they're missing an opportunity with this: they need to set up a pressure-oriented social network, where you can automatically upload share your tire-inflation stats. Of course, it should be called the Bar Room. You could compete with other members over your inflation levels in Bar Fights, and they could have a dating sub-site called the Contact Patch.

What a great idea and don't complain about the cost....just think of it as the price of two bells!

Here is a serious question:

If my phone is already paired to my GPS device, would I have to spend the extra time to unpair GPS -->pair pump-->unpair pump-->pair GPS again?

On a hot, sunny day I really wouldn't want to bring my phone out, struggle to see the screen under the sun, open the app, and do all that pairing process. 

On a cold, rainy day I really wouldn't want to bring my phone out , struggle to to get the touchscreen to work because a drop of water is on it, and then do all that pairing process. 

Doh! I've got this all wrong haven't I? It's not about what you actually need, it's about what someone in marketing tells you that you need isn't it?

I'm not going to buy one until it can send a tweet to ring my bluetooth-enabled Spurcycle bell when the pressure's right

I lost a £30 pump last year, which was attached via a similar bracket. That was bad enough, imagine loosing £95 the same way. Ouch!

Respectfully suggest that for £95 one could buy a decent track pump with an accurate guage to keep at home, and a cheap out and about, pump up your tyre to get you home in a fix, doesn't really matter if you lose it on the way round mini pump or CO2 inflator for the tubeless brigade.

Call me when they add a CO2 adapter to it

If you really need this, you can already get bluetooth bicycle TPMS that look like big valve caps for less than the cost of this pump, so you could monitor your tyre pressure even when you don't have a pump connected.

i think it would be quite handy to know what pressure my tyres are

just me?

(not for £95 though)

Often while fixing a flat on the side of the road, with my left hand holding one end of my pump and my right hand holding the other, my third hand has felt bereft, unable to contribute to getting me rolling more quickly. Finally, it can contribute by holding up my phone and showing the pressure.

It's neat, but it's not £95 worth of replacing my existing pump and gauge neat. (Though I don't bother taking a gauge on a ride either.)

" it certainly falls within the ‘do I really need that?’ category"

Understatement. It's a 'solution' looking for a problem or someone gullible enough to buy it.

Edit:

" the design addresses accuracy and durability issues of other mini-pumps "

I'm fortunate to have two hands, with a thumb and finger on each. These have proven far more reliable than any gauge you can buy in (or steal from) a shop. So far I've never left them behind at home or at the roadside.

Well, it had to happen, eventually. As will, at some point, a Bluetooth bladder sensor to inform people via a mobile phone alert when they need to go pee-pee.

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