Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3720 in Automotive
• Color: Silver/Black
• Brand: Roadgear

Features

• Functional. 90 degree head optimized for motorcycle tires
• Comfortable ergonomic design
• Easy to read digital display
• Extremely accurate
• Five-year warranty

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Great product, until it dies
By W. Gray
Bought this for my motorcycle along with the pen version. They work great, and give (seemingly) accurate readings. The head angle makes it easy to get around the brake rotors on my SV-650.

Unfortunately, the pen gauge died about 2 years after I got it, and the regular one died after 5 years: it would just show "L" on the LCD. I cracked it open and discovered the "lifetime" battery had died. I had to cut some plastic to change it out, but even with a new battery it would then only read "1.0" so perhaps it needs to be calibrated or something.

I rate this 2 stars because they advertise it as having a "lifetime" battery when the battery obviously dies after a few years of infrequent use. It is also impossible to change the battery so you have to throw the whole unit away to buy a new one.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Works as described
By Gauteng
I bought this to use on a BMW motorcycle because it has awkward access to the pressure valve on the rims. It works beautifully and the spoken measurement is very handy when you can't see the readout. The readings are consistent with other gauges which I believe to be accurate so all in all this is a solid product and works as described.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Reduces the hassle of checking pressure
By Richard Wood
Oddly enough, like the only other reviewer so far I'm also a BMW motorcycle owner. And I don't check my tire pressure as often as I should, 'cause it has always been a major hassle.

I saw this reviewed on some motorcycle review website (probably webBikeWorld) and decided to give it a shot.

It definitely does the trick: very easy to use, although I would have preferred skipping the vocalization of it had saved a buck or two. Worth the bucks.

Update, many moons later: actually, the vocalization is pretty cool. When I'm wearing my helmet and leathers, it's tough enough to reach beneath a hot muffler in the first place -- the fact that this audibly tells me the pressure means I spend less time down on my knees in dirty gas station parking lots.

But something else turned out to be even more useful that I hadn't noted in my original review. This gizmo *remembers* what the pressure was, for a minute or for a month. Okay, so "for a month" isn't too useful, but the memory is definitely useful. Imagine being down on your hands and knees on the asphalt, at night, with a freeway blasting by a few yards away. You won't be able to hear this gizmo's voice, and maybe can't even see the readout. But it will remember the setting while you grunt and stand up and walk around to your headlight to check it. The old stick-style gauges would tend to spring back into their holders too easily. Does this sound the grumblings of a middle-aged biker? Well, yeah. But it's still a good product.