Watch out for snake bites, you got that right. While working in the garden it occurred to me that the only thing that could possibly explain the pump failure was the one way intake valve, and I could not repair or replace that. Time for I new pump. 30 miles RT to the nearest bike shop and I had a shiny new Lezyne floor pump. I got busy replacing tires. Actually, I miswrote in my first post it was my Trek which had the flat, since I had taken the tires off of my Saluki and given them to my wife. So I needed to repair tires on the Ram & Trek and replace new tires on the Saluki and ordered new tires. Those new Pari-Motos aren't too hard to mount but they are hard to mount straight. Having gotten them on the bike, brakes adjusted and blown up, I spun the front and realized it wasn't very straight. I walk around and spun the back to check it out. That's when the front tube blew. Snake bite.
I'm reduced to eating popcorn and having a glass of wine. Michael On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 12:01:20 PM UTC-4, Ron Mc wrote: > > watch for snakes, bro > > On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 9:55:23 AM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: >> >> Last night I discovered the rear tires on both the Ram & Saluki were >> flat. I took them off but couldn't find a hole in either, even under >> water. I put the tires back together and pump them up to 80 & 60 lbs >> respectively. This morning each had lost noticeable amounts of air. >> Repeated the test (both Kendra tubes btw.) with the same results. Decided >> to simply replace the tubes. Put the Saluki's 650b together with a new >> Schwalbe tube. When I tried to blow it up with my well worn Air Hammer >> floor pump, the pump jammed. Disassembled the pump, cleaned it up, but >> finally decided it needed a new O ring. Ten miles round trip to the >> hardware store. Now reassembled the pump seems to work in reverse! The >> handle feels very firm when I lift it up, but when I let go the suction >> pulls the pump more than half way down. >> >> I think I'll go roto till the garden. >> >> Michael >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
