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Old 08-18-05 | 04:20 AM
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lisitsa
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From: Melbourne in Australia

Bikes: Old 12-speed commuter, When I earn enough I'll get a fixed KHS flite 100

WENT THROUGH EXACTLY THE SAME PROB

My advice, go for a floor pump
Let me prove why:

I looked everywhere and the only shops that had a solution were kmarts, which had a bit rechargeable one, which was very loud, very slow, and only schrader valve
YOU WILL NOT FIND ONE WITH A PRESTA VALVE, I tried using an adaptor with mine but it didn't hold well enough to the cheap schrader valves.

When I was looking at these solutions, I hadn't tried a floor pump, and was under the impression that it wasn't very quick, but boy was I wrong. Don't get $10 floor pump cause they are crap, but any floor pump from a bike shop (usually 50 or so dollars) will be super fast, with 6psi per press, (and the presses are so easy) so if you're filling up your tire, it's literally 3 presses, and you're back to full pressure.

Enough of my blabbering already, but truthfully, I muddled with adaptors and air compressors for a while, yet a floor pump is so much better, and so much faster, you'll never go back. TRUST ME
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