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Review on VERENO Double Barrel Bike Floor Foot Pump: 160PSI Portable Inflator with Precision Gauge for Bicycles, Balls, Scooters, Cars, Toys by William Burnett

Revainrating 2 out of 5

No instructions, non-obvious, cheap and disappointing

If you'd rather not pay $20 for a name brand pump, why not pay $26 for a quality $10 pump instead! First, there are no instructions in the manual. Crate. It would be possible to survive if the pump was obvious. It's not like this. Adapters are cheap plastic. It is in order. Except they don't work at first. You know, with a little THE GUIDE WOULD HELP. It turns out that air blows out of both outlets until it hits pressure on one of them. Only then does it switch to just pumping out of that one. At least that's the best I can say DUE TO THE LACK OF THE MANUAL. This would not be a problem with something like inflating a car tire that is already inflated. Try pumping up an exercise ball, for example, and there is no pressure. This keeps the air blowing out of both holes, making a sad farting noise, and flowing through the adapter connection tab. The only way I found to solve this problem is to squeeze the exercise ball and block the nozzle inside. This allowed him to apply pressure, close the other side, and then I could remove my finger and it started working. Is there a better way? Pretty sure. THIS THING THAT CAN BE WRITTEN IN THE MANUAL. Also, this thing was obviously invented by my Monsieur Guillotine. Of course, any pump of this type is a set of spinning, moving plastic parts. But most others use a rubberized stand rather than a small piece of nearly friction-free plastic. Eventually your leg will fly off. The entire device will shear anything nearby as it flies. How can I know? Another factor is that the hose is too short. It's ok if you want to mount it on a car tire. This is downright pathetic when you want to inflate the deflated exercise ball. Ideally, you should hold it in your hands while you begin. But you can't. Because the hose is ridiculously short. So you put it on the floor next to the pump. And then your foot slips off that stupid piece of plastic. And the device cuts through the side of your exercise ball with scissors. How did I know it cut up the exercise ball? Definitely not via the meter. As others have pointed out, it's absolute crap. Even with the BOSU ball intact, he never went off the ground except mid-pump. So I spent ages pumping up a punctured exercise ball, totally unaware that the pressure wasn't increasing because the pressure gauge was crap. All in all, if you go with your eyes wide open it might be worth paying for, but that's fine because you just paid $10. Unfortunately it's $26. And Schwinn makes a trademarked alternative for $19.99. Yes, I feel stupid.

Pros
  • Pleasant to use
Cons
  • Some little things