{"id":3111,"date":"2013-10-21T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:10:30","slug":"bike-magazine-reviews-the-topeak-joe-blow-ace-floor-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/2013\/10\/bike-magazine-reviews-the-topeak-joe-blow-ace-floor-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Magazine Reviews Topeak Joe Blow Ace Floor Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"joeblow\"<\/a>Price: <\/strong>$160
\nTopeak.com<\/strong>
\nReview from bikemag.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This pump was worth every penny. This year I\u2019ve torn, worn out and replaced so many tires that without this pump I would have burned a lot more fossil fuel driving to my LBS or gas station to use the compressor. I\u2019m a tubeless convert. I can\u2019t believe I spent so many years patching tubes when all along the answer was to get rid of them entirely. Of course, it takes a little more work to get a tubeless tire to seat and often, without the ease of compressed air, it becomes a futile battle.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s where the Topeak Joe Blow Ace comes in. It features an innovative three-stage, dual-chamber design that achieves both high pressures and high volume in record time. Stage one opens both barrels for big volume to reach 60 psi with 30 percent less effort than standard floor pumps \u2013 this is what you need to be able to seat tubeless mountain bike tires. Stage two uses the main barrel only for pressures up to 120 psi while stage three engages the small barrel to achieve an amazing 260 psi \u2013 road bike tires.<\/p>\n

I was skeptical at first but this really does work very well. I\u2019ve not failed in seating one tire all summer. I\u2019ve used single-ply, UST, and downhill casing tires from Michelin, Maxxis, Schwalbe, Specialized, all with success.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an easy-to-use Smarthead which works for both Presta and Schrader valves without any buttons, widgets, flip switches or doodads. It also has an air release button for fine tuning and a big, chunky analog gauge that\u2019s easy to spot, but could perhaps do with a little more indents for fine tuning lower pressures. The baseplate is wide and solid, making a stable platform when pumping. The construction is also very tough and is strong reason to believe this item will last for a very long time.<\/p>\n

If Bike<\/em> handed out star-ratings this would be an easy five out of five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Price: $160 Topeak.com Review from bikemag.com This pump was worth every penny. This year I\u2019ve torn, worn out and replaced so many tires that without this pump I would have burned a lot more fossil fuel driving to my LBS…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[54,501,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}