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    Garage air pumps...

    Bastard BP and the crappy Chinese GN build quality have come to a head today! I was checking the tyre pressures in the garage and the combination of an awkward hose and cheap valve lead to the valve stem snapping off and the back tyre deflating; I was most fucked off! I've had to push it to the nearest bike place and now I have to leave the bike in more-or-less the centre of town overnight until I can get them to have a look at it.

    On the plus side, I've been thinking about a new chain for a while and if the back tyre is coming off I might as well get them both done at the same time...

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    It's not a penis - you do not need to keep thrusting it in there!

    Ya rough bugger!
    Pop down to Bunnings or a decent bicycle shop and invest in a hand or foot pump for your shed. Tyre pressures are usually checked when cold so then you can do it and adjust it in the leisure of your own garage. Get your own gauge too - station ones are usually out due to being dropped so often.

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    I didn't think I was being rough at the time, still, I suppose I must have been seeing as it fell off, doh!

    I mean the valve, obviously; not my manhood

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    Got one of those little compressors myself.

    It is amazing how useful it is everytime you want to clean something or pumps something up.

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    Forecourt hoses are not designed for bikes - get a little 90 deg elbow thingy that screws on (and off) when you want to inflate the tyres. Just leave it in the jacket pocket, saves a lot of trouble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Forecourt hoses are not designed for bikes - get a little 90 deg elbow thingy that screws on (and off) when you want to inflate the tyres. Just leave it in the jacket pocket, saves a lot of trouble.
    Ooo Where did you get that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul in NZ View Post
    Forecourt hoses are not designed for bikes - get a little 90 deg elbow thingy that screws on (and off) when you want to inflate the tyres.
    I went the other way, and got some blingy Ariete alloy 80-degree valve stems. They weren't cheap, but they look good and now I don't have problems with lack of clearance between the front disks and the valve stem.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Ooo Where did you get that?
    WMC - it was a strictly under the counter in a brown paper sack deal...

    Nah - I thought they were commonly available????

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    talk to a 'bloke" in a tyre shop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Ooo Where did you get that?
    Seen them in supercheap or repco (both the same arent they?)

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    I've asked in Bike shops and Repco and SuperCheap and got a blank stare as a response. One guy in Repco showed me these big ugly 90 degree truck valves and expected me to buy them.
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    haha - so appropriate! I went to do my tyres for the first time today. Spokes on my wheels are too close together to get the valve thingy on!!! and the hose was too solid at the top to flex around them. GRR - must have looked like a right dick on my hands and knees scrabbling around...

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    I've asked in Bike shops and Repco and SuperCheap and got a blank stare as a response. One guy in Repco showed me these big ugly 90 degree truck valves and expected me to buy them.
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    Will do! Thank you!
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    garage air pumps with the longer shaft have been known to get a bend in em when i have been there....the ol gs doeant have much room between the rear DRUM brake and the rim....might have to look at a 90 deg thingy....

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