This thread reminds me of the "training scene" in American Flyers.

I miss my old Silca pump with the pronged Campagnolo head, but a water bottle can be just as effective.

I have been bitten twice by dogs. The first time I was cycling slowly up a 16% grade in an alley in west Los Angeles and got nipped by a golden retriever who was probably just playing. The damage was minimal and the dog owners were so nice about everything that I did not even ask them to pay for my tetanus booster.

The second time, I got chomped in the thigh by an American Staffordshire terrier (basically a pit bull) while jogging home from work. Since this dog was a known neighborhood menance who had previously attacked other dogs in the neighborhood, I immediately phoned animal control. The sympathetic officer wrote up my injury as "moderate" instead of "slight." Vindication came several months later when this dog self-euthanized while biting the tire of a moving car. (Yes, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.)