Frame pump placement - Rear triangle possible?

[Pierre]

I am thinking getting a full-size frame pump. I have a 59 cm Hilsen.

I am wondering if any frame pump would fit nicely & tightly on the rear triangle (non drive side, on seat stay)?

(looking at pictures, it surely looks nice + I think my S&S couplers may get in the way if placed on TT).

Pierre

[drew]

It's possible. Riv had a thing on their Instagram where they made a pump peg out of a p clamp and a short/sharpened rack strut. It's placed at the top of the seat stay, and the other end of the pump either uses the qr or the rear corner. I copied and its working great. Out of the way, less noticeable.

[dougP]

It would eliminate knocking the pump loose when you carry the bike up stairs.  One of the reasons I went for a mini-pump but of course they're nowhere near as effective as a frame pump.

dougP

[Shoji Takahashi]

Sean Hipkin, formerly of Rivendell, had his frame pump in the rear triangle. There are a few pics of his Legolas:

http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/staff9.htm

It doesn't look like he rigged a pump peg, but did use a strap. I tried this on my AHH with a Zefal pump from Riv, and it seemed fine. I haven't ridden it a lot like that, though.

Good luck!

shoji

[Bill Lindsay]

Another way to eliminate knocking the pump loos when you carry the bike up stairs is to grab it by the downtube.  ;-)

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[ted]

I put an umbrella clip on my seat tube just below the seat stay and mount the pump with the head on the chain stay at the bottom bracket and the handle in the clip. Works great.

[Nick Worthington]

If you are mounting to the seat-tube, you can still get NOS clamp-on pegs from E-vilbey.  Cyclo made the nicest ones - have one on my SO's Betty.

Nick W.

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:15:23 AM UTC-7, Pierre wrote:

[islaysteve]

If you dont mind giving up your seat tube water bottle, you can mount a Topeake frame pump (and probably others) there easily.  I have the XS size for my 51 frame; Topeakes come in about 4 sizes.  I also used one of the water bottle mount screws to hold a small Velcro cable tie; much less conspicuous than the black Velcro strip provided with the pump. 

[Mark Wilkins]

I have a Topeak full-size that I use in the rear triangle of my 60cm
Ram and my 61cm Atlantis, just like the pics of Sean Hipkin's bikes.
I'm not sure of the size of the pump, but I recall using it this way
because it was just a hair too short to fit snugly under the top tube
of my 60cm Ram.

It fits snugly on both the Ram and Atlantis, and I don't use a strap.
If I was riding any rough(-er) terrain, I probably would.

Mark

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[doc]

This is a 60 cm LHT with a Zefal running along the seat tube.  Obviously you need the chainstay clearance.  Normally the pump is under the top tube, however those are tent poles wrapped in an old pair of socks lashed down for an S24O.

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10:15:23 AM UTC-4, Pierre wrote:

[Lungimsam]

That right there is a purple carbon eater bike.

[Lungimsam]

Im surprised that, with the massive baggery that goes on around here, you all are not just throwing Topeak Morphs into your bags. Plenty-o-room and no chance of frame pumps ruining paint jobs, bike lines, and going into spokes.

I think it is about 175-200 pumps to inflate my Cypress tar with my Morph pump( I forget which Morph model). And it sits perfectly in my Berthoud bag, so I know it will fit with plenty of room in those yawning, resounding, vast, cavernous, unlimited-litre, beautiful, Rivbags.

[Steve Palincsar]

On 04/07/2016 11:30 AM, Lungimsam wrote:

Im surprised that, with the massive baggery that goes on around here, you all are not just throwing Topeak Morphs into your bags. Plenty-o-room and no chance of frame pumps ruining paint jobs, bike lines, and going into spokes.

I think it is about 175-200 pumps to inflate my Cypress tar with my Morph pump( I forget which Morph model). And it sits perfectly in my Berthoud bag, so I know it will fit with plenty of room in those yawning, resounding, vast, cavernous, unlimited-litre,  beautiful, Rivbags.

easily twice as many pumps as required with a Zefal HPX

[drew]

the pump in bag is a fair point. i have a mini that i toss in a bag on my fastest bike. but i swap bags and move stuff around so much, that im never sure exactly where it is. the frame pump can just stay. 

issues i encountered when trying to mount on rear triangle, or back of seat tube were: 1-when mounted on the seat stay, from drop out corner to top of seat tube, the pump pushed my fender inward and it caused rubbing on the tire. but i have 50mm tires+fenders.  2-when mounted on the back of the seat tube, from bb area to the top, my xt front derailer pushed the pump out so that it didnt fit cleanly. the clamp bolt on that particular derailer hit it just in the right spot for it not to work. 

[Lee Legrand]

Do you have anything to hold it there? Typical, there are pump pegs to hold pumps on the seat stay.  I am thinking of a classic look but maybe you are going with the manufacturers attachment which is typically made to fit on the main tubes, not the skinny seat stays.

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[Fullylugged]

I put a Topeak along the seatstay on my Ram all the time. Works no problem. No extra pegs needed.

[Fullylugged]

Here it is on a Road.