Bicycle Mechanics - Bought bike off of CL/came with frame pump...

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Alathea
06-21-08, 09:31 PM
A blackburn MP1. There is no flip lock on this little double pump air pump, and no instructions. Dumb question-do I just slip it over the stem and push until I can pump air into it, or is the pump possibly defective?


Thanks!

CAS

jsmithepa
06-21-08, 10:17 PM
My old frame pump didn't have a flip either, seemed to work fine as I remembered. What u gotta lose? Promise it won't blow up!
Alathea
06-21-08, 10:38 PM
Ive slipped it on there, I just might not be pushing it on there far enough. Ill give it another shot in the AM before I pull out the mini compressor. Next stop, Saddle.

ollo_ollo
06-22-08, 08:08 AM
You will need to hold the pump head in place with one hand while you pump with the other.
ScrubJ
06-22-08, 10:07 AM
Contact the maker http://www.blackburndesign.com/index.html
Alathea
06-22-08, 10:09 AM
Thanks all-Im used to the T pumps or foot pumps from when I was a kid, so I already looked at this little thing and wondered how useful it could/would be. Ive been reading and see that its almost a necessity as is.

Thanks for the heads up's.

CAS