I Want to Ride My Bicycle

[bugshaw]

Just been out for my first bicycle ride of the summer! It's a nice quiet afternoon, there's a car number 317 half a mile away, so an ideal time to get the bike out for some practice.

The ride lasted 40 seconds, and now I need to learn how to pump up the tyres. They looked fine till I sat on the bike!

EDIT: I did find the pump and the valves, but couldn't connect them, even with the flexible tube thing. The Internet tells me I have Presta valves, so I might have to nip up to the cycle shop with my pump and wave it feebly and ask if it ought to connect and I'm just being dim, or if I need a special connector connector.

EDIT II: Cycled 15 minutes. Am knackered and my bum hurts. Is comfy sofa taim nao plz?

Comments

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

How annoying and inconvenient. I hope you can get it sorted out soon.
Pumping up tires is tiring and annoying but it is good exercise.

I looked at my bike yesterday. It was still there in the shed, covered in cobwebs. I was quite relieved - it could've been nicked ages ago for all I'd have known.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It is sorted already! Cycle Kings sold me a connector for a whole pound; pumping has occurred. I will blooming well cycle, in a few minutes when I've got my breath back.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

If you want to know if the tyres are full in future, pinch them between the thumb and a finger. If you can squash them by more than a millimeter, then they probably need pumping.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's a handy tip for this novice :-)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/

Come on the tandem some time, it is less dangerous than being a tiger's dentist.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

He's where I found out about Presta valves! Nice Internet, helpful diagrams for the nervous.

[dalmeny]

Bicycle!