Product Review: The Titan High-Pressure Inflatable SUP Pump from Red Paddle Co.

Earlier this year, we received our first shipment of Red Paddle Co’s long-awaited Titan high pressure SUP pump. The Titan pump was touted as a game-changer, with the ability to cut inflation time in half.

For years, the standard inflatable SUP pump was the Bravo HP single-action, high volume/low pressure pump, a squatter, thick-barrel single-action pump designed to put in more air volume, which in turn took more effort to reach higher pressures.
Higher pressures in an inflatable board vastly improves the board performance, by increasing rigidity (reducing flex).

In 2013, Red Paddle Co introduced the HP EZee  single-action, low volume/high pressure pump, a taller, thin-barrel single action pump designed to put in less air per stroke, thus allowing one to more easily pump to higher pressures.
As the pros and cons of each are obvious – one fills a board up more rapidly, while the other takes longer but is less of a struggle to reach 18-20 PSI – numerous paddlers opted to purchase both pumps.
In response, other manufacturers expanded the slim-barrel design to a double-action pump, putting air in on the up and down stroke. While theoretically this will put air in twice as fast, in actuality it becomes a struggle on the “up” stroke.

In 2015, the Titan made its debut. What makes the Titan different? The Red Paddle Co Titan pump is an amalgamation of the two pumps. The new Titan pump has two chambers, basically one side is a high volume/low pressure, and the other a low volume/high pressure. A unique double gear system actually combines the two chambers, so that when initially pumping, paddlers are using BOTH chambers to fill the board, allowing them to put in a whopping 4.71 liters, compared with just over 2 liters for the standard HP pump. When the pumping starts to get tough, one can switch the internal gear over to the high pressure chamber, allowing one to easily attain higher PSIs with less effort. An integrated pressure gauge allows one to monitor the process.
While we were keen to test out the new pump, the Titans sold out before we had a chance. Our intent was to review the Titan, as well as update our Guide to Choosing A High Pressure Inflatable SUP Pump – which we published last summer. As we no longer had the Red Paddle Venus 10-0 used in the original comparison, we pulled out the Red Paddle Ride 9-8 – which is fairly similar in specs.
Three shipments later, we snagged the last Titan off the shelf.
So, here is our review of the new Titan dual-barrel high pressure inflatable SUP pump from Red Paddle Co.
The pump as arrived couldn’t be simpler – pump body with integrated pressure gauge and a

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