When I was a kid, every bicycle pump screwed onto the valve stem. The pump hose had a threaded end that you would twist on, pump and be done.

Sometime in the late ’70s or early ’80s (I think) someone came up with these lever style pumps, where you push the nozzle onto the valve stem and crank the lever over. This was a “convenience” apparently, except they suck.

Applying pressure to push the nozzle onto the stem while also applying lateral pressure to push the lever over is a pain, and the rubber inside the nozzle wears out from gripping the threaded metal of the stem (of course it does) and the plastic part that is meant to push in the little doohickey that opens the valve is plastic, and also wears out. And if it’s one of those bend in the middle ones you pump with your foot, the whole thing would simply break into pieces.

The screw on type, threaded pumps of my childhood never had any of those issues.

Over the course of years I have periodically searched for “screw on bike pump,” “threaded bicycle pump,” “pump for threaded valve,” etc. Unfortunately, the bicycle pump industry has been entirely unaware of my search and pain point. For years I searched. Years!

My riding mower developed a bit of a thorn-hole in the left front tire, and even after taking it into the tire center, the left front still goes flat with frequency, so when my floor pump with the crank over lever finally stopped working at all, I redoubled my search, desperate to find the elusive threaded bicycle pump.

I tried all my searches again, “screw on,” “twist on,” “threaded,” “goes onto a Schrader valve in a sort of round and round twisty motion,” to no avail.

Then one day, I picked up the phone and called Lezyne, a pump manufacturer with great reviews and ratings, one I’d seen many times during the course of my years long search, one I had previously been scouring in a manual hunt for the thing that had eluded the search engines, and I asked the person who answered the phone, “Do you have ANY pumps that will thread onto a Schrader valve stem?”

There was a very confused pause on the other end, and then he said something that stunned me.

“All of them.”

“What? Not a single product description on your entire website says as much. Were you aware?”

“Uh…”

Long story short I’d found a bike pump with a twist on nozzle, one with threads, threaded, the thing I had been searching for! I immediately ordered a Lezyne Sport Bike Pump in yellow (look at that yellow!). Lezyne was out, so I got it off Amazon, and let me just say, this pump is awesome!

The nozzle is a little cumbersome at first, and if you twist in the wrong spot you can take the red part off by accident (it’s made to fit every manner of valve from Schrader to Presta to blow-up doll), but it freaking threads on! I live on a small farm, so tractors, trailers, mowers, cars, bikes, everything rolls around on air-filled tires with threaded stems. I use it constantly. This pump has delivered.

Maybe you just have a bike. Well, it’ll work for you too. The 3.5″ diameter analog pressure gauge is huge and easy to read, and the pump can handle up to 220psi or 15bar, which is a lot. Road and track cyclists will be pleased. And there’s a handy pressure release button if you go too far. The base is wide enough to provide stability, even on gravel or mud. Mountain bikers, that’s you.

And, did you catch the length of that hose? It’s more than double the length of any hose on any bicycle pump I’ve ever owned.

Because here’s the thing, this pump is better than those of my childhood. It’s high end, that’s for sure, and more than you’ll pay at a big box store, but the quality is there to justify it. This is the best pump I’ve ever owned, bar none. It’s worth the price.