Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A bicycle pump is specifically designed for inflating bicycle tires. It has one or both of the two types of valve in use on bicycles, Schraeder or Presta. Basic types available include: floor models frame mounted compact double action Using a gas station pump is seldom a good idea. Some are designed to cut off before the high pressures used in many bicycle tires is reached.Some others may pump enough air into the small volume of a bicycle tire,in a short time, to blow out the tire. There is also a slight difference between the modern standard for Schraeder valves on an automobile and that on a bicycle that makes some more recent valves on gas station pumps a poor fit. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.