Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
This just makes me upset. I won't dwell on it for too long because it's friday night and beer, but still, what the hell are people thinking?
Penny wise pound foolish thinking I'm assuming.
Definitely a caveat emptor scenario.
He checked everything out, even going as far as bringing a chainwhip and lockring pliers to see if the rear was stripped. Everything except for the valve holes under the now debunked assumption that nobody will tamper with that.
They spun very true too.
He only realized something was wrong when he inserted a presta valve stem and there was all this play. He actually tried to inflate it this way only for the valve stem on his tube to be torn when it was pressed through the opening by the pressure.