How do people pump their air zounds? They seem awfully fragile, and I
don't particularly want to have to pull the valve out to get more
extension to be able to fit any of my pumps over it. But then when I
try to pull the tube off, I have to pull on the valve, and I feel like
I'm going to break it.
Then there's the matter of using a pocket pump, which just fits over
the valve, and I can't work out how to get to 80PSI without putting
any lateral force on the air zound. Or using my floor pump, where the
tube isn't long enough to reach the handlebars, and suffers from the
valve not having enough extension to wrap the floor pump's head
around.
And using a ye-olde style pump who actually screws onto the Schrader
valve but won't get anywhere near 80PSI. And suffers from both the
lateral force and tube-not-long-enough problems simultaneously.
In summary, air zounds are great devices[1], but horribly impractical.
How do other people get them charged up?
[1] Which scare the bejeebus out of my bus driver in retaliation for
him waking up my fellow night shift workers when he drives past their
houses tooting a friendly horn.
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TimC
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