Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I suppose you will be quite unhappy if one day your pump does fail to do its job and you are unprepared to deal with your unexpected situation. Especially if you have to walk past a gas station with your unrideable bicycle.
Or you could carry an adaptor, and make sure you have quarters or cash. Plus you might want to bring a along a spare valve and hose for those things because a bunch seem to be missing them.
I don't know. It seems to be a lot simpler just to make sure you're carrying a working pump rather than hoping a gas station with a working compressor is somewhere close by.
Most cyclists that use gas station pumps seem to use them in place of having a good floor pump at home rather than as a way to deal with flats. That's fine but if you have a good floor pump and a pump to carry with you that would seem to eliminate the need to fill at a gas station in most circumstances. Plus, like many have said, if you want to fill at a gas station, there are cheap and small adaptors that will let you do it.