jakonovski
Member
This is for mountain biking though. If you're worried about crashing then you want knee pads and (to a lesser extent), elbow pads. At worst your hands will get a bit dirty unless you break something, in which case the gloves wouldn't have helped anyway. I'd say they're only essential if you suffer with compression of the ulnar nerve.
As for the pump, there are posters here who still do nothing more than the squeeze test on their tyres. If you're running a fat bike on tubeless, sure, pressure is very important... but pump gauges are shit anyway, so you'll want an actual pressure gauge for working with that.
The glove issue is clearly philosophical, so no more on that. But regarding the pump, you have to be a masochist to pump mtb tyres only with a hand pump. And since basically all floor pumps pumps come with a gauge, it's a no brainer.