cheers guys, for your insight on these ruddy adapters. its reassuring knowing it's not just me

anyway, i ended up removing the air inflater from the end of the air hose.... fitted an air nozzle in place - forced air into the adapter to discover there was a puncture in the tube.

[slightly trued the wheel to my liking while i had it off
and wanted to take everything off to see if i could find the cause of the puncture

the bike is new to me, a fellow clean swapped it for a mountain bike i had. it was too big for him
very happy with the deal... the mountain bike i got for free... and is no-where near the value of this thing....



what a ride!!