Finally got round to buying a road bike after lugging aroung 15kilos of mountain bike for the last 2 years (hard going for my 100km sunday morning ride!).
Anyway I was messing around with the tire valves and new bike pump (mmm what is this presta thing?). Managed to deflate the tire in 2 seconds flat... literally.
Tire's are rated from 100 to 130 pounds. I have heard that it is hard to inflate them to this rate but I had no idea!
Finally got them up to 100 but what an effort. How the hell do you get them to 130?
Bloke at the LBS said the pump he sold me would be ok... yeah right, maybe when I metamorphosise into godzilla's lovechild.
I saw a presta to schrader adapter on ebay, reckon's you can use a pump at the servo. Does anyone out there do this? Is it safe?
Cheers
Anyway I was messing around with the tire valves and new bike pump (mmm what is this presta thing?). Managed to deflate the tire in 2 seconds flat... literally.
Tire's are rated from 100 to 130 pounds. I have heard that it is hard to inflate them to this rate but I had no idea!
Finally got them up to 100 but what an effort. How the hell do you get them to 130?
Bloke at the LBS said the pump he sold me would be ok... yeah right, maybe when I metamorphosise into godzilla's lovechild.
I saw a presta to schrader adapter on ebay, reckon's you can use a pump at the servo. Does anyone out there do this? Is it safe?
Cheers