Nope, just sat in behind me after I overtook him. I just wished I'd had a dodgy vindaloo the evening before. I guarentee he wouldn't have been there for long!

It will be from now on.

Yep, going out to look for them tomorrow. Will let you know what I find.
Can't believe I've been scooting around the countyside for the last 6 months secure in the knowledge that I had my trusty mini-pump with me.
Yeah, I reckon it's with the foot out.

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Never underestimate the power of a well aimed snot rocket :eek:
Works best after a hacking gurgly cough!

I use a long, narrow mini pump, which I've seen packaged with three different brandings!! It weighs 108g, cost about $35, is rated to 160psi, and has a very small red & white label which says "Air Supply". I've only used it once coz i've only had 1 puncture in 12 months (!!) -- that's Beach Rd for ya :p

Before each ride I top up my tyres with an old Zefal hpx, then get them bang-on the correct pressure with a Silca track pump. The Silca isn't really suitable for moderate pressures; it's more for very high track pressures. The narrow bore is necessary for very high pressures, but having a narrow bore also means that more strokes are required to get to any given pressure. A mate of mine has a floor pump with a bore that is about 1.5 times the Silca, and it seems to get 20psi per stroke!!

i was once rolling home after a hard ride, doing about 28kmh along Chesterville Drive -- which is basically a side street -- and the next thing I know there's some dude drafting me :p

I reckon I've seen a few pumps that were different brands that looked exactly the same.
I used to get a fair few up here... 'till I bought the Stelvios - which are probably due fer replacing soon.

I also have a silca pista, I really like it. You're right it isnt a fast pump, but at least you can get spare bits for it.

HDT 'owns' a black Silca too. I like it very much. Goes rather well with my red one :D

I have a Topeak Mountain Morph. Looks just like the one you linked to. Great pump. I usually carry it on longer social rides on the mtb but for training and commuting I carry C02 cause it's lighter and fits in a ride shirt pocket. They work very well. I can get two fills from one large canister. First time I used it I popped the bead out. They are way cheaper on ebay.

I cracked the base of my Silca, I think because I let it become loose, and was a bit rought with it. Luckily, a guy at a shop had a few bits lying around, including a base.

How accurate are the gauges? Coz, i see dudes who lecture me about tyre pressure, saying that only 110psi is needed, then I feel their tyres, and they're ROCK HARD!!

Occaisionally my liver and I like to have a good soak in Tooheys Extra Dry. By most ppls standards its a bit of a crap beer, but I like it coz I have a very narrow palate for beer (hoppy ales and lagers only), it has light taste and nose, and it's slightly sweet.

Anyway to cut a long story long, I dropped into the local IGA tonight and the dude brought out an 8 pack of a never before seen Tooheys Premium Dry. You won't find it on the lion-nathan website, and not even google knows about it. It's supposed to be smoother across the tongue than Extra Dry, but here's the kicker: the label on the neck of the bottle reads 6.5%. That's the equivalent of longwall mining your last few remaining briancells out. Think Elephant Beer and you'll be on the right track

IGA reckons an 8 pack will sell for about $20, which makes it only slightly more exxy than extra dry which seems to have found itself in the boutique brews section of most liquor shops even though it's probably just tooheys new cold filtered and dressed up in a clear bottle.

Look for it in you IGA store some time in June. Look for 17yo kids and unsuspecting yanks passed out on your front lawn about the same time. :D

Have fun.

now thats the funniest thing ive read all day!

i too am a fan of the extra dry, so ill be sure to keep an eye out for that!

oh yeah, I once "clocked" my Zefal HPX frame pump at the bike shop (using a digital tyre pressure meter), at 193psi!!

A few years ago, some boofhead at a bike shop told me that a Zefal HPX couldn't generate any more than 120psi, so, I then thought if I pump my tyres up as hard as I can with these pumps, I'll have 120spi in my tyres. You guessed it; I pump the absolute crap into a 20mm wire-beaded, Continental Ultra (rated to 150psi), and, 10km down the road, in the Hawthorn shopping strip, it EXPLODED (people looked around as if a gun had gone off -- fairdinkum, you shoulda heard it!!! :)), ripping about 10 inches of the wire bead to bits!!

I love it when a 200+psi beyatch lets go at DGV. KaBLAAAMMMMO.... and only the noobs bother to bat an eyelid, the old tools just carry on yakkin as if nothin's happened. Funny.

You sure about this? The Zefal website claims 135psi. Maybe you have a mutant HPX. :eek:

Can I call you to come and pump up my tyres next time I get a flat? :D

Yep

I've had four or five over the years, and they were all the same!! Funny thing about the Zefal rating on their website is that the last HPX I bought had "160psi" written on the box!! In fact, I cut it out and kept it coz i've encountered skeptics before :)

http://vmartin.bigpondhosting.com/ph...hpx_160psi.jpg

I started a thread about this a while ago, and some 'expert' said that max psi out of a pump is more about strength, rather that the structure of the pump....RAH ME!!! :p

Yep...nothin like it!! :) KABLOOOEY

Yeah I can only get a tire up to 120 psi with a floor pump because after that I can put all my weigh on the pump handle but its going nowhere.

The mini pump you were describing with the "Air Supply" written on it is the same one that I was trying to describe. Mines been faultless and I've used it a few times.

Regards, Anthony

I also had a rim 'blow' on me; and this was before I even knew that a rim could wear so much that they break, so ididn't know what the hell was happening. When it 'went' (half the depth of the Mavic CD4, x ~8" length broke off), the tyre and tube obviously blew at the same time, so that was also quite a KABLAMMO!!

I've got 3 of them, just for convience. I think I paid 30 or 32 bucks each.

Do you have any idea how much that pump cost his employer in shipping charges? :D By the way, I still have 2 of those left. They were US$10.

You over your hangover yet Jock? :D

I don't usually suffer from a hangover berny. That's not necessarily a good thing, especially from my liver's point of view.

But I'm sure some serious damage could be done with that rocket fuel when it becomes available. :eek:

If you want to wave bye bye to your brain cells in a tasy Belgian way, just head to your nearest Belgain Beer Cafe and order any Leffe beer. They start at 6.5% and go up from there :beer: For an occasional treat I like the blonde, and the brune, and...

It would however be a tad more expensive than the Tooheys.