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On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 10:34:24 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:39:30 -0500, AMuzi wrote: On 5/13/2021 9:28 PM, John B. wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2021 08:16:09 -0700, sms wrote: On 5/12/2021 7:48 PM, John B. wrote: snip I was, probably rather obscurely, commenting on the comments about inflation. Dumping money into an economy normally results in an increase in costs (inflation) :-) True. But there are worse things than inflation. The U.S. has had many years of extremely low or zero inflation. One side effect of this has been similarly extremely low interest rates on savings. When I was young you could but your money in a Certificate of Deposit and get 10% interest plus a free toaster or blender. These days you're lucky to get a 2% return. Many big-ticket items have increased in price at a rate much lower than the inflation rate. Well yes, the U.S. has years with minimal or very negative inflation.. in 1930, for example the inflation rate was -6.4% and the GMD growth was -8.5% :-) But basically the inflation rate tends to follow the growth in the economy. Not perfectly , but generally any growth in GDP is balanced by an increase in the inflation. Re interest rates, I am not really on to of this as basically our bank accounts are in the nature of "ready cash" and "investment money" is invested in (hopefully) inflation resistant places such as real estate - The Bangkok house cost 200,000 baht for the land and 400,000 to build the house and today my wife reckons we would ask 8 million if we wanted to sell. Of course we've had the house for 40 years :-) but never the less, better then cash. And if you calculate the rental, which we didn't pay for all those years, then it is an even better. In many places, notably Chicago, that's a losing proposition after taxes. What's your land tax like in Thailand? We own two houses, the "Bangkok house" where we lived for about 40 years and the "Country house" where we have lived for the last 2 years. The Bangkok house we pay no tax on the land and the Country house we were billed 2,000 baht (~$66) land tax but due to the Covid they only charged us 200 baht ($6.). Hmmmmm. I believe there might be a very different economic, monetary system in effect in Thailand compared to the US of A. At least on property taxes. I'm not sure of this but I believe that if a house is your domicile then you don't pay any tax on it. At least we never paid any tax on the Bangkok house but when we bought the Country house my wife had to show her "record of domicile" which was, of course, the Bangkok house and thus the newly purchased house couldn't be a domicile so we get billed for taxes. I refer to "us and our" but in fact it is nearly impossible for a foreigner to own property (land) in Thailand so all property is actually in my wife's name. Funny though, As my wife is a married woman she has to have her husband certify that he is aware that she is buying property and although they will not register property in my name they are quite happy for me to certify that I am aware that my wife is buying the place :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 5/13/2021 7:28 PM, John B. wrote:
snip Re interest rates, I am not really on to of this as basically our bank accounts are in the nature of "ready cash" and "investment money" is invested in (hopefully) inflation resistant places such as real estate - The Bangkok house cost 200,000 baht for the land and 400,000 to build the house and today my wife reckons we would ask 8 million if we wanted to sell. Of course we've had the house for 40 years :-) but never the less, better then cash. And if you calculate the rental, which we didn't pay for all those years, then it is an even better. Usually real estate is a much better option though there are no guarantees. As we saw during the 2008 recession and mortgage crisis, you can lose money in real estate too. In the U.S. rust belt states houses have not necessarily been a good investment. The pandemic has driven up housing prices in Silicon Valley to very high levels, while rents for apartments have plunged. A house on my street just sold this week for around $3 million. These are not luxury mansions, they are 1960's wood-frame tract houses, around 1900-2500 square feet, on about 0.17 acre lots, that sold for less than $20,000 when they were new in 1963. The cumulative rate of inflation was about 175% since 1963. The $3 million house increased in price by 14,900% since 1963. Remote working, which many companies are going to continue to allow post-pandemic, has allowed people to buy houses in more affordable areas instead of renting small apartments at very high rents. There are ridiculous offers by apartment owners desperate to get new tenants. |
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On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 8:53:05 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 7:56:26 AM UTC-7, wrote: Op maandag 10 mei 2021 om 16:22:09 UTC+2 schreef Wolfgang Strobl: Am Mon, 10 May 2021 04:26:45 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Lou Holtman : Op maandag 10 mei 2021 om 12:57:03 UTC+2 schreef Wolfgang Strobl: Am Mon, 10 May 2021 01:45:06 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Lou Holtman : Op maandag 10 mei 2021 om 07:45:24 UTC+2 schreef James: On 10/5/21 11:50 am, Frank Krygowski wrote: It might be handy to see a chart of "pump strokes to 100 psi" for various brands and models, starting from an empty tube. Don't forget effort (force) to achieve said pressure. Diameter and length affects volume / stroke. Diameter also affects force @ pressure. To minimize force and strokes, opt for smaller diameter and longer barrel. However - is it still a "mini pump" with a long barrel? I've got a Lezyne road drive pump for my road bike with up to 25mm tyres @ 100psi, and a higher volume Lezyne pump for my gravel bike that has 42mm tyres @ 50psi. 100psi is easily achievable for the road bike, but I wouldn't want to use the larger diameter & volume gravel bike pump to reach 100psi, though it might take fewer strokes. -- JS 100 psi easily achieved with a minipump? I don't believe that. Did you ever checked that? I don't either. My minipump does about 5.5 bar ~ 80 psi. This takes quite some time and leaves me somewhat exhausted. Tried this recently, after a similar discussion in the German language bicycling newsgroup. https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/technik/komponenten/taschen/DSC_3462.jpeg 5.5 bar is enough for me on that bike, for getting home. I won more than one bet from people stating that they can achieve 7 bars with a minipump. They were allowed as much time they wanted after which I measured the pressure. Most of the times it was 5 bar. Still enough to make it home. I switched to CO2 catridges (carry two cartridges and two tubes) and so far they worked well for me. 7 bar in a few seconds. Many years ago I got talked into CO2 cartridges, bought three of these and stowed them in the desk in my office, as a backup. Months later, working overtime, it had gotten late. So I packed my things and went to the basement of our office building where I had parked my bicycle. https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/IMG-2461.JPG/view.html There I noticed a flat tire. :-( Patching was no problem, I always carry both a spare tube and a patching set, using the spare tube only in cases where patching would fail. But where is the pump? At home, of course. Back at my desk, I found the cartriges, mounted the adapter necessary für Presta/Sclaverand valves, walked back to my bicycle and tried to fill the patched tire. The first became empty before I was able to fasten the adapter strong enough to get some CO2 into the tire at all. The second cartridge worked, but only to let me notice that there was a second hole in the tube. So I inspected the mantle of the rear wheel, again, noticing and removing another piece of glass. Only with the third cartridge did I get barely enough CO2 into the rear wheel to be able to ride home, carefully. Lesson learned: CO2 cartridges are no replacement for a working pump. In my case they are. You have to use the correct inflater and spend one catridge at home to practice. Choose wisely between 12, 16 and 32 gr cartridges. YMMV. There is technique involved, and if you're careless, you can blow through cartridges. I still carry a back-up clown pump, at least when riding alone.. That seemed a good idea to me until most of the expensive road tires got non-puncture belts. I've still gotten a couple of unfixable flats but learned my lesson not to ride directly through broken whiskey bottles which sadly enough seem to be along the roads in the more expensive areas. |
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