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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: First flat in a looooong time
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 11:59:35 -0500
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On 4/2/2025 11:49 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 12:23:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/2/2025 8:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/1/2025 10:20 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Turns out she'd borrowed a Schrader mini pump. She didn't recognize
>>>> that it didn't fit her Presta valves. So I gave her tire irons, taught
>>>> her how to change a tube, and advised on buying the proper pump and a
>>>> spare tube, checked over the rest of the bike, etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Pumps with single valve format (i.e., not reversible) are very old now.
>>
>> Huh. My only mini pump is the one I carry on my folding bike. (I did
>> some minor filing on the pump head to allow it to fit inside the bike's
>> seat tube.) Anyway, it's got only a Presta head, with an oddball adapter
>> kept inside its handle to inflate Schrader. I'm guessing it's 10 - 15
>> years old.
>>
>> Before I visited the young lady I mentioned, I suggested she buy a floor
>> pump, which she did. Dual head made of plastic, but the Presta head
>> seemed very difficult to properly clamp on the valve. And the (once
>> replaced) head on my own floor pump is getting dodgy as well. I need to
>> open it and see what's gone wrong. I suppose there are better and worse
>> pump heads on the market, but I don't know which are which.
> 
> https://www.modernbike.com/topeak-mini-morph-g-frame-pump-with-foot-pad
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

+1
An excellent and very popular product

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Andrew Muzi
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