Tried to get air into my tyres using my new mini pump today. (Bought my no-name pump 'cos it fitted the provided support points on bike.) Tyres use Schraeder valves, and bike has Alex G3000 rims which are quite deep. Pump has clamp arrangement for Schraeder valve, but I couldn't get hole in pump to fit round end of valve before valve was disappearing into rim. Interference fit wasn't quite the right description! Sorted it today by using my car pump, but on the road...
Apart from getting another pump, any ideas please? Thanks -- M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm
Apart from getting another pump, any ideas please?
I dunno what width those rims are, but you can get inner tubes with extra long valve housings on them to go through those aero shaped wheels. Try your LBS, they'll probably be able to suggest something.
-- bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com bobarnott.combobarnott.comOpen ↗ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month." -- Wernher von Braun
Apart from getting another pump, any ideas please?
I dunno what width those rims are, but you can get inner tubes with extra long valve housings on them to go through those aero shaped wheels. Try your LBS, they'll probably be able to suggest something.
-- bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com bobarnott.combobarnott.comOpen ↗ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month." -- Wernher von Braun
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Apart from getting another pump, any ideas please?
I dunno what width those rims are, but you can get inner tubes with extra long valve housings on them to go through those aero shaped wheels. Try your LBS, they'll probably be able to suggest something.
Many thanks, visited LBS - problem solved. -- M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm
