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Alan J. Wylie
Guest
Left the office the evening, unchained the bike, and as I swung it
round noticed that the front tyre was flat. Sighed, put the rubber
gloves on, removed the inner tube, and went for the pump clipped onto
the down tube. It was a TruFlo Maxair, or rather half of one - the
barrel was still there, but the handle and plunger assembly has
disappeared. Fortunately, I'd picked up a cheap pump in the local
Netto a few months ago and left it at work, and it had a Schraeder
fitting, which matched the mountain bike valves - I've put the shiny
new tourer to one side until the rain salt and grit season is over.
Now I'm wondering how and when the innards unscrewed and fell out
without my noticing.
I never found the hole in the inner tube (swapped for spare), or any
foreign body in the tyre either.
--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
round noticed that the front tyre was flat. Sighed, put the rubber
gloves on, removed the inner tube, and went for the pump clipped onto
the down tube. It was a TruFlo Maxair, or rather half of one - the
barrel was still there, but the handle and plunger assembly has
disappeared. Fortunately, I'd picked up a cheap pump in the local
Netto a few months ago and left it at work, and it had a Schraeder
fitting, which matched the mountain bike valves - I've put the shiny
new tourer to one side until the rain salt and grit season is over.
Now I'm wondering how and when the innards unscrewed and fell out
without my noticing.
I never found the hole in the inner tube (swapped for spare), or any
foreign body in the tyre either.
--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery