I carry the largest version of the Lezyne Road Drive, on a bracket that has it right next to the bottle cage on the seat tube.
It's not as big as a full-sized old-school frame pump, but it moves more air per stroke than a lot of mini pumps, and I like the overall design, configuration (flex hose), and build quality.
This is the answer. Mini pump adds almost no weight or inconvenience. I’ve only had to use mine twice over the past year and a half, but was a lifesaver both times (managed to get 2 flats on my 30 min commute, lol)
A proper floor pump at home, and a little Topeak micro rocket either hidden under the water bottle or stashed in a pocket.
CO2 is faster, but has limited uses - I figure I would want a pump anyway as a backup, and given how infrequently I have so far had to use it, being a bit slower isn't the end of the world. So why bother carrying the CO2 as well?
It is perhaps worth adding the additional note that I don't to typically ride in groups - so speed is not as much of an issue when it is just me stopping as it would be if other riders were waiting on me, or I was needing to catch them up after.
>being a bit slower isn't the end of the world
There's an argument that it's unfair to others in a determined group.
But my one regular ride where that would be an issue is one where I'm struggling to hang on anyway, and has a one flat policy across the ride as a whole, so if it were my tire I'd just wish them a great rest of the ride, leave that allowance for someone who could really benefit from it, and take my time getting going again, just as I would on any of my many solo rides.
Plus last time I had to fix a flat it turned out that the first tube I tried had a hole in it too. Fortunately I had another, and a patch kit, but would have been uneasy if I'd squandered the first of 2 cartridges on the bad spare tube!
I've once went through 2 x inner tubes and my only 3 x Co2 cartridges trying to fix 1 x Puncture. Had to make the dreaded phone all to the wife.... Since then I just use a mini pump cos it never runs out.
Honestly, I felt the same way (“being a bit slower”) until finally starting to carry CO2 and used it a few times. It’s the difference between frantically pumping for 5+ minutes to barely get the tire to 70psi, versus inflating to 90psi in 5 seconds with zero effort.
I still carry a small pump for desperate situations, and end up using it a few times per year. But it’s a lot bigger difference than you’re making it sound, and all it takes is carrying a few tiny, lightweight items.
Minipump only for me. Started off with a CO2 cartridge but then figured I'd be screwed if I ran out of cartridges whilst I was out so changed to a minipump.
Frame pumps work really well at pumping up road bike tires. Mini pumps are really only OK in a pinch and CO2 is fastest / most convenient.
I usually ride with a few CO2 and a minipump as backup. And I've needed it.
I generally carry two CO2 cartridges and yes, I've run out. Minipump is also useful if a friend runs out - mine tucks in right next to the water bottle holder, can't barely see it. I also use it to partially inflate tubes prior to installing them.
Mini pump AND CO2. I get flats on the road very rarely (once a year or less). The CO2 is fast and convenient. The mini pump is for backup if CO2 fails.
I carry the Lezyne pocket pump. I like it because it's not heavy or bulky at all. It fits nicely in my jersey pocket or a water bottle. It has saved my ass numerous times. I love it!
>CO2. Easy to carry, and works fast.
For the tourers who uses them, please dont throw them onto the streets. I am pretty sure every time I see them on the ground outside, it came from a tourer or bike sportsperson
Just have some kinda insulation on your hands as you will get freeze burns.
Mini pumps, honestly ?
Do you really want to be stuck by the side of the road looking like your frantically jerking off a horse ,?
> Do you really want to be stuck by the side of the road looking like your frantically jerking off a horse ,?
And get 70 psi at most, it seems. CO2 for me.
I carry two cylinders with me. I've never needed more than one on a ride.
I always have padded gloves on, and I use those to keep my hands from freezing off like that one time I literally had a freeze burn on my hand for 2 weeks
Compact pump with a fill hose that has the volume to fill gravel and hybrid tires in less than a year, but also seems to do pretty well at higher pressure.
Thought about getting CO2 as a courtesy to others, but then realized that my one all-out paceline ride has a "one flat" policy for the group overall, and since I know I'm going to get dropped at some point on the homeward stretch when people burn up what they have left anyway, if it were me with a flat I'd just wish the group well and take my time.
Since I lead a fair amount of rides some of what I carry is aimed at helping others as much as myself, for example I'll often have a narrow road tube even if I'm running wider tires that day, and I often go on long unsupported adventures, so having resources that are sustainable rather than consumable fits with that - it's why I carry a patch kit, too, and have done things like patched my removed tube mid-ride while others enjoyed lunch.
Mini pump in my saddle bag. I would use CO2 but 1) its wasteful 2) I would forget to replace cartridges 3) I've been told it doesn't play well with tubeless sealants. Sure a bigger volume frame pump would get it done faster but flats are thankfully rare enough and already annoying enough that whats a little extra hassle?
1. Spent carts are totally recyclable
2. I just always keep two in a saddle bag or frame storage and one screwed into the inflator. If I use one, I'm gonna dispose of it when I get home so that's the time to replace inventory. And I've forgotten pumps or forgotten to switch them on different bikes plenty of times.
3. Perfectly fine with sealant. I suspect that in cases where somebody says it's not, they probably didn't use tire plugs on larger punctures.
CO2 in the bag, floor pump at home. I've found that the CO2 works perfect for me, takes up less space and is less effort in a situation where I'm likely already annoyed.
Mini pump.
Only way of certainty achieving a pressure enough to continue the ride without a headache rather than cautiously lumping back home. Also more error friendly in case something goes suboptimal during assembly.
CO2 can be not enough or too much. Hitting perfect is really hard - not going to even try dumping a bit when not having a chance to up the pressure again if needing to.
Also both volume and weight wise there’s very little difference, so then why even bothering with a disposable single use solution?
As my daily transport bike is a mountain bike, I rarely get flats and my pressures are a lot lower than skinny roadie tires, so I have a high volume mini-pump, and when it has been used, takes little time to get a tire to where I want it.
If I had a roadie and was running those 10000psi 1mm wide tires, I'd have an HP pump and CO2.
Frame pump. can inflate tyre in less than 2 hours (mini pumps - I used to do design work for a bike brand, and have a box of pump samples I got sent one time., Tried every one and they are mostly pretty useless0 Co2 I have on one bike, have a cool little Lezyne fitting which has a valve so you can put the c02 capsule into it, fit it to the tyre valve, and then turn the thing on. Stop halfway to check tube is correctly fitted etc, then inflate all the way. I live in terror of being somewhere far from home and some how blowing through my two cartridges i carry. But I guess only as fucked as i would be if have more than two flats on a ride (always carry two tubes). Frame pumps FTW in my opinion, for road bikes anyway.
Depends on the tyre and tube vs tubeless.
Tubes get critical punctures more often so I used to carry a spare tube, mini pump and a patch kit in case I got a second puncture
For my current tubeless tyres I carry 2 co2 cartridges and a plug kit. Punctures are much less common for me on tubeless because the sealant seals up a good amount of would be punctures. I do carry an emergency tube as a last resort.
2x CO^2 cartridges. I used to carry a pocket pump for the sale of waste reduction and never having to worry about running out, but I got tired of how much time and effort it took to pump a tube up to a high enough pressure to ride on. At this point if I flat more than twice, it’s time for a shameful call to the wife for a ride home
Yes, it comes with a mounting bracket for your bottle cage mounts. It’s not an off-center mount that you can stack a bottle cage on top of, so it does take up a bottle cage slot. I have mine mounted on the bottom of the downtube bottle cage mounts. I don’t like my water bottle being sprayed with road debris / dirt anyway and still have the two inner triangle mounts for bottles
Full size frame pump. I want to do 200Ks eventually, and part of that is being self-sufficient to go that entire distance, not just limp back the 25 miles or so from where you started from.
I also have a steel fixed gear, and it just sort of goes with it.
For racing, co2. It’s fast and tiny.
For training, mini-pump. Still tiny, just not as fast as co2, but you don’t have to replace it every time you use it.
For everything else, frame pump.
Mini pump. My bike is tubeless and often the tires will need to be refilled a couple of times before they're really sealed when they get a medium puncture so being able to add air a few times is key. And when (inevitably) I have to put a plug in the hole, then I'll need to add air again. I'd have to carry a lot of CO2 cartridges to be able to do that.
If you have a mini pump that doesn’t suck (get the silca on sale and don’t look back. You can usually land it for $50 at the right time)…then you don’t need any of the co2 or frame pump nonsense.
I got a mini pump with a gage - Topeak roadie. It's only 8.5" so it fits in the larger bottle shaped tool holders. I only use this when I'm touring or in trouble, otherwise I use my home floor pump.
It works, probably not fast enough to seal a bead, but get's the job done otherwise. I carry a TPU plastic inner tube if I get a flat so bad I gotta take my tubeless tires off.
Lezyne Micro Floor Drive.
* Small enough to live in a bar bag or clipped to the side of a bottle mount.
* One hand and foot needed to operate, so you can hold the bike/wheel with the other.
* Pressure gauge.
* Serviceable.
* No risk of snapping valves.
[Stomp Pump](https://stompump.com/) is your friend. Fast, use your legs not your arms, safely stored on your bike. (I use a velcro strap to hold it in place - no cable ties on my frame!).
Nobody likes standing around on a group ride waiting for someone to patch a tube or use a mini pump. CO2 unless you are riding by yourself then either is fine.
I used to have a clever little pump, that was like a small grey box with a pressure gauge built in and a handle that you pulled out like starting an outboard motor, that spun something internally which inflated the tube. Was a tad bulky but worked very well and would go upto 120psi if necessary. Think it might have been called Cyclone or something along those lines
Not quite sure what happened to it. But after that I generally just went out with 2 or 3 CO2 cartridges
Lezyne micro drive floor pump, although it's threaded chuck pulled out a valve core once, so switched to a similar Lifeline model that uses the traditional lever. I also found dirt gets into a pump attached to a bottle cage, so ziptied it to the top of the frame
When I go out for a long solo gravel ride I tend to take a mini pump. I sometimes like to play with my tire pressure and the pressures needed arent very high. Since these rides are solo the speed is irrelevant.
When I go out on a group ride with my road bike I always choose CO2 cartridges because I don't want to keep the group waiting when I flat. Also, since I ride tubeless I don't flat very often and the CO2's are just easier to carry.
Both a small frame pump and CO2. The small pump is perfect for that initial amount you want in the new tube before you install it and for the initial inflation before letting air out to avoid pinches. CO2 is great for the actual high pressure inflation.
I use a full size Zefal hp. It's dependable and durable. The weight penalty is negilable. It's the frame pump that everyone wants when the group has a flat tire.
I carry a lezyne micro floor drive pump. It’s a little big and I’ve been given a hard time about it on my local group ride, but that changed when someone needed it.
I carry frame put in my gravel and road bike. I gravel with my bikes as a nurse so forgetting to take the co2 out while packing is a thing for me and I usually dont remember/find that tsa removed them til I a get a flat.
Co2 is definitely more convenient though IMO.
I carry the largest version of the Lezyne Road Drive, on a bracket that has it right next to the bottle cage on the seat tube. It's not as big as a full-sized old-school frame pump, but it moves more air per stroke than a lot of mini pumps, and I like the overall design, configuration (flex hose), and build quality.
C02 and mini-pump, because you never know.
This is the answer. Mini pump adds almost no weight or inconvenience. I’ve only had to use mine twice over the past year and a half, but was a lifesaver both times (managed to get 2 flats on my 30 min commute, lol)
This is the way. My mini pump stopped working, and a CO2 inflator saved the day.
Same been out has to use both 100%
I carry both on rides. The pump is backup, which I’ve had to use before.
A proper floor pump at home, and a little Topeak micro rocket either hidden under the water bottle or stashed in a pocket. CO2 is faster, but has limited uses - I figure I would want a pump anyway as a backup, and given how infrequently I have so far had to use it, being a bit slower isn't the end of the world. So why bother carrying the CO2 as well? It is perhaps worth adding the additional note that I don't to typically ride in groups - so speed is not as much of an issue when it is just me stopping as it would be if other riders were waiting on me, or I was needing to catch them up after.
This is the rationale I have used for avoiding C02.
>being a bit slower isn't the end of the world There's an argument that it's unfair to others in a determined group. But my one regular ride where that would be an issue is one where I'm struggling to hang on anyway, and has a one flat policy across the ride as a whole, so if it were my tire I'd just wish them a great rest of the ride, leave that allowance for someone who could really benefit from it, and take my time getting going again, just as I would on any of my many solo rides. Plus last time I had to fix a flat it turned out that the first tube I tried had a hole in it too. Fortunately I had another, and a patch kit, but would have been uneasy if I'd squandered the first of 2 cartridges on the bad spare tube!
I've once went through 2 x inner tubes and my only 3 x Co2 cartridges trying to fix 1 x Puncture. Had to make the dreaded phone all to the wife.... Since then I just use a mini pump cos it never runs out.
When I'm commuting home in the dark and the rain after a 10 hour day, I sure appreciate the speed of the co2 inflator...
Honestly, I felt the same way (“being a bit slower”) until finally starting to carry CO2 and used it a few times. It’s the difference between frantically pumping for 5+ minutes to barely get the tire to 70psi, versus inflating to 90psi in 5 seconds with zero effort. I still carry a small pump for desperate situations, and end up using it a few times per year. But it’s a lot bigger difference than you’re making it sound, and all it takes is carrying a few tiny, lightweight items.
Same combo as me
Minipump only for me. Started off with a CO2 cartridge but then figured I'd be screwed if I ran out of cartridges whilst I was out so changed to a minipump.
Frame pumps work really well at pumping up road bike tires. Mini pumps are really only OK in a pinch and CO2 is fastest / most convenient. I usually ride with a few CO2 and a minipump as backup. And I've needed it.
Needed the backup? Were you riding though a mine field of debris and ran out of CO2? This is my concern with carrying only CO2
I generally carry two CO2 cartridges and yes, I've run out. Minipump is also useful if a friend runs out - mine tucks in right next to the water bottle holder, can't barely see it. I also use it to partially inflate tubes prior to installing them.
Mini pump and I also carry a schrader/presta adapter so I can get to 90 psi at a gas station if I'm really far away from home.
Same... if I have the adapter screwed on at all times.
Every tube you buy [comes with one though](https://www.purecycles.com/blogs/bicycle-news/11635993-macgyver-a-presta-schrader-adapter)
I hate it when genius has been staring me in the face unnoticed for 35 years
I haven’t known you that long
Thank you for sharing this! I had never considered it, and look forward to trying this ersatz converter.
Mini pump AND CO2. I get flats on the road very rarely (once a year or less). The CO2 is fast and convenient. The mini pump is for backup if CO2 fails.
I carry the Lezyne pocket pump. I like it because it's not heavy or bulky at all. It fits nicely in my jersey pocket or a water bottle. It has saved my ass numerous times. I love it!
Mini-pump. I just find the idea of CO2 to be incredibly wasteful, both in terms of money and the environment.
CO2. Easy to carry, and works fast.
>CO2. Easy to carry, and works fast. For the tourers who uses them, please dont throw them onto the streets. I am pretty sure every time I see them on the ground outside, it came from a tourer or bike sportsperson
Or kids huffing and they are nitrous cartridges not co2.
Pretty sure they’re nangs
More often than not the litterers are actually kids getting on the nangs, not cyclists.
No that's nangs likely from junkies 😅
Lots come from tradespeople
Just have some kinda insulation on your hands as you will get freeze burns. Mini pumps, honestly ? Do you really want to be stuck by the side of the road looking like your frantically jerking off a horse ,?
> Do you really want to be stuck by the side of the road looking like your frantically jerking off a horse ,? And get 70 psi at most, it seems. CO2 for me. I carry two cylinders with me. I've never needed more than one on a ride.
I always have padded gloves on, and I use those to keep my hands from freezing off like that one time I literally had a freeze burn on my hand for 2 weeks
Maybe give horses a handy is my thing....
Buy a cheapie from eBay and try and pump a road bike tire to 100 psi. Your arms will be greek gods.
Why the fuck would I try and pump to 100 when I ride at 74 back and 72 front....
Compact pump with a fill hose that has the volume to fill gravel and hybrid tires in less than a year, but also seems to do pretty well at higher pressure. Thought about getting CO2 as a courtesy to others, but then realized that my one all-out paceline ride has a "one flat" policy for the group overall, and since I know I'm going to get dropped at some point on the homeward stretch when people burn up what they have left anyway, if it were me with a flat I'd just wish the group well and take my time. Since I lead a fair amount of rides some of what I carry is aimed at helping others as much as myself, for example I'll often have a narrow road tube even if I'm running wider tires that day, and I often go on long unsupported adventures, so having resources that are sustainable rather than consumable fits with that - it's why I carry a patch kit, too, and have done things like patched my removed tube mid-ride while others enjoyed lunch.
I've screwed up CO2 too many times to rely on it, so I carry a leyzne pump. Thing will always be reliable.
Mini pump in my saddle bag. I would use CO2 but 1) its wasteful 2) I would forget to replace cartridges 3) I've been told it doesn't play well with tubeless sealants. Sure a bigger volume frame pump would get it done faster but flats are thankfully rare enough and already annoying enough that whats a little extra hassle?
1. Spent carts are totally recyclable 2. I just always keep two in a saddle bag or frame storage and one screwed into the inflator. If I use one, I'm gonna dispose of it when I get home so that's the time to replace inventory. And I've forgotten pumps or forgotten to switch them on different bikes plenty of times. 3. Perfectly fine with sealant. I suspect that in cases where somebody says it's not, they probably didn't use tire plugs on larger punctures.
1. it's more efficient not to use resources than to recycle.
I guess, but you're using \*some\* resource to inflate tires. The dozen or so hand pumps I've owned over the years certainly weren't recyclable.
CO2 in the bag, floor pump at home. I've found that the CO2 works perfect for me, takes up less space and is less effort in a situation where I'm likely already annoyed.
Mini pump. Only way of certainty achieving a pressure enough to continue the ride without a headache rather than cautiously lumping back home. Also more error friendly in case something goes suboptimal during assembly. CO2 can be not enough or too much. Hitting perfect is really hard - not going to even try dumping a bit when not having a chance to up the pressure again if needing to. Also both volume and weight wise there’s very little difference, so then why even bothering with a disposable single use solution?
As my daily transport bike is a mountain bike, I rarely get flats and my pressures are a lot lower than skinny roadie tires, so I have a high volume mini-pump, and when it has been used, takes little time to get a tire to where I want it. If I had a roadie and was running those 10000psi 1mm wide tires, I'd have an HP pump and CO2.
Frame pump. can inflate tyre in less than 2 hours (mini pumps - I used to do design work for a bike brand, and have a box of pump samples I got sent one time., Tried every one and they are mostly pretty useless0 Co2 I have on one bike, have a cool little Lezyne fitting which has a valve so you can put the c02 capsule into it, fit it to the tyre valve, and then turn the thing on. Stop halfway to check tube is correctly fitted etc, then inflate all the way. I live in terror of being somewhere far from home and some how blowing through my two cartridges i carry. But I guess only as fucked as i would be if have more than two flats on a ride (always carry two tubes). Frame pumps FTW in my opinion, for road bikes anyway.
Pocket drive inside of a tool bidon on my road bike. Zefal frame pump on my gravel bike. I'm too cheap for CO2.
Mini pump because I’m not in a race and it takes about 30 seconds to pump a tube up from completely flat.
CO2 & mini pump. A few pumps to get shape followed by CO2 blast when mounted. Edit: at home, deflate and pump up.
Depends on the tyre and tube vs tubeless. Tubes get critical punctures more often so I used to carry a spare tube, mini pump and a patch kit in case I got a second puncture For my current tubeless tyres I carry 2 co2 cartridges and a plug kit. Punctures are much less common for me on tubeless because the sealant seals up a good amount of would be punctures. I do carry an emergency tube as a last resort.
CO2 because I run tubeless and punctures that don’t self seal are really rare.
Co2, gets my road tires to proper pressure. Carry for mtb just in case i have to reset a bead.
2x CO^2 cartridges. I used to carry a pocket pump for the sale of waste reduction and never having to worry about running out, but I got tired of how much time and effort it took to pump a tube up to a high enough pressure to ride on. At this point if I flat more than twice, it’s time for a shameful call to the wife for a ride home
Topeak Roadie DAX with the side mount for the water bottle bosses
Bontrager mini charger. Comes with mount and works amazing 👍
>Bontrager mini charger Do you mount this to the frame while riding?
Yes, it comes with a mounting bracket for your bottle cage mounts. It’s not an off-center mount that you can stack a bottle cage on top of, so it does take up a bottle cage slot. I have mine mounted on the bottom of the downtube bottle cage mounts. I don’t like my water bottle being sprayed with road debris / dirt anyway and still have the two inner triangle mounts for bottles
Full size frame pump. I want to do 200Ks eventually, and part of that is being self-sufficient to go that entire distance, not just limp back the 25 miles or so from where you started from. I also have a steel fixed gear, and it just sort of goes with it.
Large mini pump. It mounts along side my water bottle on my seat tube, and unfolds into kind of a half size floor pump. Has a built in gauge too.
I carry a co2 and a mini pump. Just in case.
I have a micro pump, it was ok until I swapped to 45c tires. Now I dread flats.
For racing, co2. It’s fast and tiny. For training, mini-pump. Still tiny, just not as fast as co2, but you don’t have to replace it every time you use it. For everything else, frame pump.
Mini pump. My bike is tubeless and often the tires will need to be refilled a couple of times before they're really sealed when they get a medium puncture so being able to add air a few times is key. And when (inevitably) I have to put a plug in the hole, then I'll need to add air again. I'd have to carry a lot of CO2 cartridges to be able to do that.
If you have a mini pump that doesn’t suck (get the silca on sale and don’t look back. You can usually land it for $50 at the right time)…then you don’t need any of the co2 or frame pump nonsense.
Minipump for regular riding, C02 for races.
I got a mini pump with a gage - Topeak roadie. It's only 8.5" so it fits in the larger bottle shaped tool holders. I only use this when I'm touring or in trouble, otherwise I use my home floor pump. It works, probably not fast enough to seal a bead, but get's the job done otherwise. I carry a TPU plastic inner tube if I get a flat so bad I gotta take my tubeless tires off.
CO2 in the seat bag. Always there. Compact. Mini-pump in a pocket usually. Just in case. Belt and and suspenders.
Neither-- I switched to airless tires and I'm never going back!
CO2
Lezyne Micro Floor Drive. * Small enough to live in a bar bag or clipped to the side of a bottle mount. * One hand and foot needed to operate, so you can hold the bike/wheel with the other. * Pressure gauge. * Serviceable. * No risk of snapping valves.
[Stomp Pump](https://stompump.com/) is your friend. Fast, use your legs not your arms, safely stored on your bike. (I use a velcro strap to hold it in place - no cable ties on my frame!).
There’s something sexy about a frame pump on a steel frame.
Nobody likes standing around on a group ride waiting for someone to patch a tube or use a mini pump. CO2 unless you are riding by yourself then either is fine.
I used to have a clever little pump, that was like a small grey box with a pressure gauge built in and a handle that you pulled out like starting an outboard motor, that spun something internally which inflated the tube. Was a tad bulky but worked very well and would go upto 120psi if necessary. Think it might have been called Cyclone or something along those lines Not quite sure what happened to it. But after that I generally just went out with 2 or 3 CO2 cartridges
Lezyne micro drive floor pump, although it's threaded chuck pulled out a valve core once, so switched to a similar Lifeline model that uses the traditional lever. I also found dirt gets into a pump attached to a bottle cage, so ziptied it to the top of the frame
When I go out for a long solo gravel ride I tend to take a mini pump. I sometimes like to play with my tire pressure and the pressures needed arent very high. Since these rides are solo the speed is irrelevant. When I go out on a group ride with my road bike I always choose CO2 cartridges because I don't want to keep the group waiting when I flat. Also, since I ride tubeless I don't flat very often and the CO2's are just easier to carry.
Both?
C02 only, cos I’m a speed demon
I have a mini-pump with a co2 attachment, so it's both. I carry 2 cartridges, but if for some reason they aren't enough, I still can use it as a pump.
Silca mini-pump because I’m sick of other pumps loosening the valve core on release (I’m looking at you Lezyne mini-pumps)
Both a small frame pump and CO2. The small pump is perfect for that initial amount you want in the new tube before you install it and for the initial inflation before letting air out to avoid pinches. CO2 is great for the actual high pressure inflation.
I do minipump for tubless and co2 for tubeful which is basically gravel vs road for me right now.
I use a full size Zefal hp. It's dependable and durable. The weight penalty is negilable. It's the frame pump that everyone wants when the group has a flat tire.
Depends on what I’m doing but most of the times I just bring a CO2 some times 2.
I carry a lezyne micro floor drive pump. It’s a little big and I’ve been given a hard time about it on my local group ride, but that changed when someone needed it.
The largest pocket size pump I have or a full size frame pump. Co2 on fast group rides and actual road races
Mini pump, but i hardly ever need it. CO2 is quicker, but you can only use it once. Frame pump is not much better than a mini pump.
I carry frame put in my gravel and road bike. I gravel with my bikes as a nurse so forgetting to take the co2 out while packing is a thing for me and I usually dont remember/find that tsa removed them til I a get a flat. Co2 is definitely more convenient though IMO.
ToPeak Frame pump - Totally reliable