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Pyromancer
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Something (well, several somethings) I've wondered about for a while all
seem to have come up at once in different threads:
Pumps, and particularly the connections from them to the tyre valve.
I've seen various recommendations for people to get track pumps, and
always meant to ask just what a track pump was, from a recent thread I
now know and can see why they're recommended! Planning to acquire one
from a decent LBS soon - but I gather some of them also have those
horrid "rubber ring" connectors that seem so common nowadays?
In my youth, pumps came with a short length of hose which screwed onto
both pump and valve. As long as you were careful not to let the pump
end unscrew they were great, all the air you pumped went into the tyre
and you could rest the end of the pump against the chainstays to make
pumping easier.
Then there seemed to be a change, and all of a sudden pumps had these
built-in rubber contraptions which never seal properly to anything and
force you to have the end of the pump bearing on the valve stem, rocking
back and forth and trying to twist the wheel rim with every stroke, and
leaking air all over the place unless you clamp them to the wheel with
g-cramps.
The Gazelle seems to have slightly different valves to either the
traditional thin ones, or the car-tyre type we had in the days of
Choppers (which were IMO the best as you could use garage air-lines or a
car foot-pump to get some decent pressure in), so I'm not sure what kind
of screw-on hose I need, but can anyone recommend a track pump that
comes with screw-on hoses instead of those awful rubber monstrosities? I
know it's not just that I've a bad pump as I've had loads over the years
they were all the same in terms of wasted air and forces on the valve.
NP: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
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- DJ Pyromancer, Black Sheep, Leeds. <http://www.sheepish.net>
Hard Rock, Leeds <http://www.hard-rock.org.uk>
Broadband, Dialup, Domains = <http://www.wytches.net> = The UK's Pagan ISP!
<http://www.inkubus-sukkubus.co.uk> <http://www.revival.stormshadow.com>
seem to have come up at once in different threads:
Pumps, and particularly the connections from them to the tyre valve.
I've seen various recommendations for people to get track pumps, and
always meant to ask just what a track pump was, from a recent thread I
now know and can see why they're recommended! Planning to acquire one
from a decent LBS soon - but I gather some of them also have those
horrid "rubber ring" connectors that seem so common nowadays?
In my youth, pumps came with a short length of hose which screwed onto
both pump and valve. As long as you were careful not to let the pump
end unscrew they were great, all the air you pumped went into the tyre
and you could rest the end of the pump against the chainstays to make
pumping easier.
Then there seemed to be a change, and all of a sudden pumps had these
built-in rubber contraptions which never seal properly to anything and
force you to have the end of the pump bearing on the valve stem, rocking
back and forth and trying to twist the wheel rim with every stroke, and
leaking air all over the place unless you clamp them to the wheel with
g-cramps.
The Gazelle seems to have slightly different valves to either the
traditional thin ones, or the car-tyre type we had in the days of
Choppers (which were IMO the best as you could use garage air-lines or a
car foot-pump to get some decent pressure in), so I'm not sure what kind
of screw-on hose I need, but can anyone recommend a track pump that
comes with screw-on hoses instead of those awful rubber monstrosities? I
know it's not just that I've a bad pump as I've had loads over the years
they were all the same in terms of wasted air and forces on the valve.
NP: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
--
- DJ Pyromancer, Black Sheep, Leeds. <http://www.sheepish.net>
Hard Rock, Leeds <http://www.hard-rock.org.uk>
Broadband, Dialup, Domains = <http://www.wytches.net> = The UK's Pagan ISP!
<http://www.inkubus-sukkubus.co.uk> <http://www.revival.stormshadow.com>