iPump Twist mini pump review

The Twist is a super-lightweight pump, but usability suffers as a result

Cycling Weekly Verdict

A weight-weenie's dream but with limited usability

Reasons to buy
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    Very small and light

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    Will achieve get-you-home pressures

Reasons to avoid
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    Not very efficient

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    Gets hot in use

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    Expensive

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The iPump Twist mini pump is tiny and incredibly light at just 25g. The very thin hose, which is Presta-only, is pulled out of the handle and screws onto the valve. The handle can then be twisted at 90 degrees to provide a more comfortable handhold. Both the pump body and piston are made of carbon-fibre, to achieve the astonishingly low weight.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.