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Old April 8th 18, 02:31 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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Default AG: A curious incident


Since it's a glorious day and an incision on my forehead means I can't
wear my rear-view mirror, I decided to take the Trek Pure (aka
"pedal-powered wheelchair"} around the block. The shortest block was
as far as I cared to go. The Friday before yesterday, I took a
twenty-seven mile ride on my Fuji. Which is not curious at all; the
Trek Pure is emphatically and by design not a road bike. I sometimes
suspect it of being designed to keep Granny from wandering off.

The tires were soft, and it had been so long since I pumped up a tire
that I let the remaining air out of the back wheel while remembering
how the pump worked. It's a bit awkward to attach a pump to a
Schrader valve that just sinks down when you push on it, but I
managed, and the front wheel went much more smoothly.

What I find curious is that my pump's gage has a ring with an arrow on
it that one can turn to point at the desired pressure, so that one can
read the gage without bending over. This ring was set for thirty
pounds.

Which strongly suggests that the previous pumping-up had also been on
the pedal-powered wheelchair.

It's not really possible that a fat thirty-pound tire in good
condition would lose air faster than a skinny ninety-pound tire. I
must have re-set the ring for some reason.

Or maybe I should pump up the Fuji's tires on general principles.

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