Who the fuck keeps crashing into air pumps?

[motorbyclist]

Suffice to say, finding an air pump nowadays that hasn't had the nozzle run over and destroyed by careless cagers is pretty difficult - but we all know a good one somewhere...

Well today, my friends, my good one was fucking ran over; Not just the nozzle, the whole fucking thing.

Seriously, if there are cagers out there with licences who can't even negotiate a fucking petrol station without crashing into shit what the fuck are they doing on the road?

Fuming into my helmet on my way back home to retrieve my forgotten cellphone, one of these same idiots proceeded to look straight through me, despite my now legally required headlights on, and seemingly tried to have an R6 (which I'm trying to sell) plough into their driver's side door - She barely even slowed down until of course she had blocked my path through the roundabout.

What a great start to the week.

[grusomhat]

It's usually because cunts don't hang the fucking things back up again and just leave them lying on the ground to be run over. When I worked at the servo, we had to fix the damn thing countless times because of idiots. The hose would also end up with splits in it so you would have to cut it down, which meant that people who parked too far away had to stretch it around their vehicle to reach which meant that it split again. It was an endless cycle :/

I like the digital ones though but still, people manage to split the damn hose and they let more air out than in.

+1 for home compressor!

[2wheeldrifter]

Suffice to say, finding an air pump nowadays.......

Finding a air pump that fits is just as hard!! meaning if can get the damn handpiece in/on your tire v/v! :shit::angry2:

[vifferman]

Finding a air pump that fits is just as hard!! meaning if can get the damn handpiece in/on your tire v/v! :shit::angry2:
Ah... that's why I have Ariete 85-degree alloy valve stems. :yes:

[2wheeldrifter]

Ah... that's why I have Ariete 85-degree alloy valve stems. :yes:


Yeah I know, got 90deg on the rear... front!:no:

[ital916]

Finding a air pump that fits is just as hard!! meaning if can get the damn handpiece in/on your tire v/v! :shit::angry2:

it costs like ten bucks for a 90 degree extension, spoke wheels are the hardest with air pumps.

[ital916]

Suffice to say, finding an air pump nowadays that hasn't had the nozzle run over and destroyed by careless cagers is pretty difficult - but we all know a good one somewhere...

Well today, my friends, my good one was fucking ran over; Not just the nozzle, the whole fucking thing.

Seriously, if there are cagers out there with licences who can't even negotiate a fucking petrol station without crashing into shit what the fuck are they doing on the road?

Fuming into my helmet on my way back home to retrieve my forgotten cellphone, one of these same idiots proceeded to look straight through me, despite my now legally required headlights on, and seemingly tried to have an R6 (which I'm trying to sell) plough into their driver's side door - She barely even slowed down until of course she had blocked my path through the roundabout.

What a great start to the week.

Well when you see the size of some of the vehicles on the road :no:. Went down a back road in the city the other day. Dotted yellow lines both sides, so no cars parked down it. Plenty of space for both directions of traffic and lo and behold just my luck a motherfucking hummer comes the others way taking up his lane and half of mine. Lucky I was on the bike, I squeezed past.

If I was in the cage I would have just chucked it into park and made the bastard reverse all the way out.

[2wheeldrifter]

One day I will treat myself... lol

[F5 Dave]

They better keep away from my one at home. Seriously they are so cheap now it's rude not to have one.

PS: lights on not required legally until Nov.

[sunhuntin]

It's usually because cunts don't hang the fucking things back up again and just leave them lying on the ground to be run over. When I worked at the servo, we had to fix the damn thing countless times because of idiots. The hose would also end up with splits in it so you would have to cut it down, which meant that people who parked too far away had to stretch it around their vehicle to reach which meant that it split again. It was an endless cycle :/

I like the digital ones though but still, people manage to split the damn hose and they let more air out than in.

+1 for home compressor!

same here. it got so bad that the boss actually disconnected it and locked the storage box. the hose is kept out the back. suited me fine cos it meant i didnt have get drowned doing some little old biddies tyres. i like the ones where you key in the pressure, but my favourite is busted at the moment and i dont know where theres another. shell used to have one, but then they switched it to the standard one and i wouldnt have a clue how to use one of those. lol.

[James Deuce]

November. The headlight thing. It ain't law until November.

[Swoop]

Simple solution.

With the declining standards of kiwi drivers, you will see less of the petrol stations with working outlets.

[nosebleed]

Thats why I went and bought a pump from a cycle shop. Got sick of the very reason you posted.

Sure it's a little bit of coin, but you get consistency. A couple of cross references with other guages to find the margin of error, and your away.
The same pump with the same guage, every time.
Plus you get to check when the pressure when the tyre is 100% cold.

[Taz]

Just buy a compressor for you garage.

[swbarnett]

it costs like ten bucks for a 90 degree extension, spoke wheels are the hardest with air pumps.
WHERE?????

I would love one. I've yet to find a service station air pump that I can actually use. If I didn't have a compressor at home I'd be screwed.

[ZK-Awesome]

Just get a handheld pressure gauge from repco and a foot pump. Sorted.

[unrealone]

All the ones I use in Wellington seem to be just fine.. but I have my own foot pump at home for the reason nosebleed stated.

[davebullet]

Even that woman in Aus filling her jerry can wasn't content destroying the air pump, she burned the whole fucking station!

[Fatt Max]

I was waiting at the Mobil in Parnell once to use the air, there was a chick in a convertible Audi fucking around with the hose, walking up and down and getting all...like.....stressed and stuff....

Getting the picture now....

Anyway, I'm sitting there being very patient. Finally got off the bike and walked over to see if I could assist but she shooed me away like a fucking rabid cat.

So, eventually she gets all ....whatever-like-and-stuff and thows a really girlie strop, chucks the hose on the ground, jumsp into the car and goes to drive off. As she does she pulls up alongside me and says:

"oh, take care of that for me, I'm..like..in a real hurry and stuff....." and then she fucks off.

Now there is one genre of cager I feel would be guilty of fucking up the iar hoses...

[Forest]

Ah... that's why I have Ariete 85-degree alloy valve stems. :yes:

Oh - hadn't thought of that.

Would I need to get the wheels rebalanced?

[Devil]

Buy a pump and a guage. Those gas station air pumps are usually quite inaccurate. I've seen even one of those digital - enter your pressure - type ones out by 4psi and some analogue ones out by up to 6!

[Ender EnZed]

People crash into things at petrol stations way too much. A bicycle pump with a gauge in it from a cycle shop will save you time at the station and so reduce your chances of being there when someone slams their SUV into the big LPG tank.

[James Deuce]

I have a 12 volt air compressor and a decent gauge. Saves on leg wear.

[YellowDog]

Just buy a compressor for you garage.
Yep bought one.

There's a guy on Trademe selling them for $125 including all the valves.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=241880186

Problem solved.

[SMOKEU]

It's not cheap to buy a decent quality pump. I bought a bike pump for about $30 and the first time I used it the frame on it bent and it wouldn't work

[Ender EnZed]

I'm sure mine wouldn't have been more than $30.

It looks like a cheaper version of this. http://www.capitalcycles.co.nz/blackburn-air-tower-1-pump-p-1052.html

It works just fine and fits onto the valve better than any petrol station pump I've ever tried.

[YellowDog]

I'm sure mine wouldn't have been more than $30.

It looks like a cheaper version of this. http://www.capitalcycles.co.nz/blackburn-air-tower-1-pump-p-1052.html

It works just fine and fits onto the valve better than any petrol station pump I've ever tried.
I don't like those myself. We use one at work (heavy usage) and the hose parts company with the valve without too much help.

Maybe for weekly usage by one or two people they would be fine.

[Devil]

I don't like those myself. We use one at work (heavy usage) and the hose parts company with the valve without too much help.

Maybe for weekly usage by one or two people they would be fine.

Yep, plus lifetime warranty...

Forget the foot pump jobs, they just bend.

[rebyl]

I feel your pain. I went and bought a cheap compressor and always check my tyres before heading out on the road....But just in case I have an electric air pump( goes in the cig lighter) in my saddle bag and its amazing how many bikers I have helped out on the side of the road that are trying to pump up a flat black thing.
I also carry a tyre repair kit......Those that I help out don't tend to laugh at my Harley Ultra Mini Bus with all the bags on it that are filled with all sorts of interesting things as well as Bourban:laugh:
As far as Dip Shits that pull out in front of you....bugger we have gun laws:no:

[ital916]

I feel your pain. I went and bought a cheap compressor and always check my tyres before heading out on the road....But just in case I have an electric air pump( goes in the cig lighter) in my saddle bag and its amazing how many bikers I have helped out on the side of the road that are trying to pump up a flat black thing.
I also carry a tyre repair kit......Those that I help out don't tend to laugh at my Harley Ultra Mini Bus with all the bags on it that are filled with all sorts of interesting things as well as Bourban:laugh:
As far as Dip Shits that pull out in front of you....bugger we have gun laws:no:

Ultra classics are badass (badarse for hitcher). I would have one......If I had money :weep:

[ital916]

WHERE?????

I would love one. I've yet to find a service station air pump that I can actually use. If I didn't have a compressor at home I'd be screwed.

Motomail can get you one, if you are lucky there will be one on the parts shelf, if not it will take only a day or two to come in and they costs around ten bucks.

[Big Dave]

http://kiwiriderproducts.blogspot.com/2009/09/tyre-valve-elbow.html

[Danae]

Ugh, that really ticks me off. They must have been bloody drunk! I haven't done enough driving to become fully familiar with the placement of my four wheels but I haven't bloody well crashed into anything or even curbed it.

I hope the servo replaces your fave pump...shame on whoever crashed into it, hope they admitted to it and/or were caught on the security cam.

[nsrpaul]

my god

get a hand pump you soft barstad

and I really hope your not using the servo pressure gauge, notoriously inacurate they are, not leeast because of all the abuse you mention

given the effect tyre pressures have on handling i like to have a known pressure to work with

hope your not negleating brown fury with these kind of mechanical errors

:jerry::jerry:

[bogan]

my god

get a hand pump you soft barstad


or even better, blow them up with your lung power, or.. if you are a real hardout, just glare at the surrounding air until it gets in your tyre, thats what chuck norris would do.

[nsrpaul]

or even better, blow them up with your lung power, or.. if you are a real hardout, just glare at the surrounding air until it gets in your tyre, thats what chuck norris would do.


if i did that they would be full of hot air

how would that effect the performance of my tyres?

[grusomhat]

if i did that they would be full of hot air

how would that effect the performance of my tyres?

Probably be the same effect as a warm tyre wouldn't you think? That or the bike will float.

[nsrpaul]

Probably be the same effect as a warm tyre wouldn't you think? That or the bike will float.

good call, might save me having to cart a generator to the racetrack for warmers then:eek:

[grusomhat]

good call, might save me having to cart a generator to the racetrack for warmers then:eek:

A practical use for an impracticable method of tyre inflation. I like it! Just need to get some balloons for lung air dispersal exercises.

[boman]

I go to my local Firestone shop. I know it is correct, well maintained. I rock on up check my own pressures and ride away. She big job mate.:laugh:

[Ixion]

Purchase a good dual cylinder foot pump , from all quality stores. Ten seconds mild exercise and tyres sorted. The pumps come with a built in gauge (accurate, by my observation)

[PirateJafa]

Purchase a good dual cylinder foot pump , from all quality stores. Ten seconds mild exercise and tyres sorted. The pumps come with a built in gauge (accurate, by my observation)

Sod that. I bought a motorbike so I wouldn't have to do any exercise.

[Ixion]

Sod that. I bought a motorbike so I wouldn't have to do any exercise.

Then get your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/signficant other/goat (as appropriate) to do the pumping. Sheesh, do I have to explain everything.

[MaxB]

I was waiting at the Mobil in Parnell once to use the air, there was a chick in a convertible Audi fucking around with the hose, walking up and down and getting all...like.....stressed and stuff....

Getting the picture now....

Anyway, I'm sitting there being very patient. Finally got off the bike and walked over to see if I could assist but she shooed me away like a fucking rabid cat.

So, eventually she gets all ....whatever-like-and-stuff and thows a really girlie strop, chucks the hose on the ground, jumsp into the car and goes to drive off. As she does she pulls up alongside me and says:

"oh, take care of that for me, I'm..like..in a real hurry and stuff....." and then she fucks off.

Now there is one genre of cager I feel would be guilty of fucking up the iar hoses...

Coming back from the Cheesecutter ride I stopped at that Mobil. A blonde chick in a black Audi soft top pulled up to a pump and just stared as it for ages. When the attendant said over the loadspeaker you will have to come to the counter to pay she tried to reply by talking into the Eftpos slot on on the pump.

When I said to her that the Mobil guy wanted to help and she should see him she stormed off and sat in her car. On the passenger side. After about a minute she got out planted herself in the drivers seat and drove off with the petrol flap still open.

Maybe its the same chick?

[Fatt Max]

Coming back from the Cheesecutter ride I stopped at that Mobil. A blonde chick in a black Audi soft top pulled up to a pump and just stared as it for ages. When the attendant said over the loadspeaker you will have to come to the counter to pay she tried to reply by talking into the Eftpos slot on on the pump.

When I said to her that the Mobil guy wanted to help and she should see him she stormed off and sat in her car. On the passenger side. After about a minute she got out planted herself in the drivers seat and drove off with the petrol flap still open.

Maybe its the same chick?

Hmmmm, possibly, but I reckon this one was plain ignorant, your one seems to be, well, plain stoopid..!!

[Squiggles]

You should go to the one round the corner from ya mrs... it retracts back into the machine and is up against the wall so takes a special kind of retard to break :)

[MattRSK]

It's usually because cunts don't hang the fucking things back up again and just leave them lying on the ground to be run over. When I worked at the servo, we had to fix the damn thing countless times because of idiots. The hose would also end up with splits in it so you would have to cut it down, which meant that people who parked too far away had to stretch it around their vehicle to reach which meant that it split again. It was an endless cycle :/

I like the digital ones though but still, people manage to split the damn hose and they let more air out than in.

+1 for home compressor!

Haha I am so pedantic with those things. I often unroll it again because I don't think it is coiled good enough. I guess it comes from rolling cables for years.

[motorbyclist]

so i found a mobil near my motorway onramp that has a working pump. while waiting in the queue i had an interesting chat with a courier driver about how friggen useless cagers are (oh the irony) and exactly how many pumps in west auckland work. we could think of three, one of which is intermittent.

heck once i made the mistake of filling up on the northern autobahn - left with half the pressure i arrived with and had to ride to silverdale before i could fix it


it costs like ten bucks for a 90 degree extension, spoke wheels are the hardest with air pumps.

i dunno about that; anything with double discs is usually a prick


Thats why I went and bought a pump from a cycle shop. actually that's not a bad idea... my 12v pump has a buggered gage on it so is only really good for the dirtbikes

might also mean the tyres are properly cold too...



and I really hope your not using the servo pressure gauge, notoriously inacurate they are, not leeast because of all the abuse you mention

never considered that before, and sure enough tonight i re-did the pressure at a caltex just down the road from uni and it read 5 psi less than the mobil out west.... either that or there is a leak in the tyre.

i did find the old style gauge/nozzle thing on the ground though...

hope your not negleating brown fury with these kind of mechanical errors


lol, Brown Fury is currently completely dismantled for the most thorough clean and service it's ever had! the only stuff left intact is the shocks and gearbox:doctor:

the new little end bearing arrived today! hopefully this one fits but I won't get to find out for a few days yet...

[EnzoYug]

Kathmandu Floor pump for mountain bikes. Reliably fills up to 140/150 PSI for those who need their rubber really tight.

Has a long shaft so it delivers it's plenty with each stroke (that's what she said) - all in all, for $40 you couldn't do much better. Also fills up inflatable beds, balls, dates etc...

[Swoop]

...it retracts back into the machine and is up against the wall so takes a special kind of retard to break :)

Don't lay down a challenge to the retards. They will happily accept it...:rolleyes: