Airing up your house bikes
12-05-23, 05:49 AM
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I have no problem with clinchers, but my tubulars go flat every 7 days, making the bike look ill-maintained.
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12-05-23, 06:38 AM
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House Bikes.
I'd need a new house and a new wife. Maybe just the new, ahhh, I'll keep my bikes in the garage.
I'd need a new house and a new wife. Maybe just the new, ahhh, I'll keep my bikes in the garage.
12-05-23, 07:21 AM
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Topeak Joe Blow (the yellow one)works for me. I have one at my shop/office where most of my bikes are and one at home. I have had both for a few years and they work well. If I am traveling , one of the comes with the bike. My only complaint is that the gage is low , but it has limiter tabs that you can set for the right pressure reading. I got them when REI was having a sale . I had a cheapie previously and it failed.
12-05-23, 07:26 AM
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My compressor is so quiet I can hear the air inflating the tires. For bikes I use a floor hand pump.
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12-05-23, 07:52 AM
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12-05-23, 08:15 AM
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have compressor and bike floor pumps including two Silca pumps - but use battery powered inflator almost exclusively
12-05-23, 08:22 AM
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There's a floor pump on each floor (two Park, one Schwinn). Ryobi 18V inflator in the truck and another one in the main work area at home; the auto-shutoff is handy if I wanna run off to do something else while it's topping up or refilling a tire. Later this week I should be receiving a couple little Ryobi "stick" inflators run by a USB-charged battery.
I have a tank like the one in the opening post, and a small compressor in the basement to fill it. Years ago that was the only "practical" way to top up the 10-ply 235/85R16 tires on the trucks, But with no garage and a steep basement stairway, it was not much fun hauling the tank up and down. The automatic Ryobi inflators changed all that.
I have a tank like the one in the opening post, and a small compressor in the basement to fill it. Years ago that was the only "practical" way to top up the 10-ply 235/85R16 tires on the trucks, But with no garage and a steep basement stairway, it was not much fun hauling the tank up and down. The automatic Ryobi inflators changed all that.
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12-05-23, 08:52 AM
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I’m sentimentally attached to the old Silca floor pump I bought used in 1980. Definitely got my money’s worth out of it. I’d like to try one of the Hiro or Hirame heads on it.
12-05-23, 11:54 AM
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12-06-23, 03:57 PM
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^^^^^^^ Conventional or otherwise removeable battery? Maybe there's some western-alphabet branding in the compartment (shrug).
12-06-23, 07:53 PM
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I have both and prefer the Hirame. I finally got the Silca to work but the Hirame is on the compressor and that is what I use first then the Silca floor pump to get to the higher pressure.
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