My Bicycle Musings

I haven't been riding for a while, but I have been fooling with the floor pump. I got some 1/4 inch hose at Dixieline a few weeks ago, and today got a brass fitting to connect it to the pump. I got another fitting for the other end, but I couldn't find a schrader chuck that screwed or clipped on, I had to make do with the kind you hold on. This makes it tricky to pump the tire. You have to hold the chuck on with one hand and pump with the other. I can only get it up to about 80 pounds that way. I willl have to keep my eye out for a more suitible chuck.

This whole apparatus cost a little more than a replacement hose from the bike shop but I can now replace any parts as they wear out from the hardware section.

I would have bought a Topeak brand replacement hose for 12 bucks, but none of four dealers had one. Three did not know where of I spoke, either.

And I can't find my big brass Presta adapter!

Hopefully I will go riding tomorrow. I cleaned and oiled the chain on the Schwinn today.

It's dang handy to have a large magnet around when the little axle on the chain cleaner brushes falls into the iceplant...