Those are pretty fruity rims eh? Isn’t the trend away from wider rims just now anyway?
Not sure, but I’m pretty good at following trends 5-10 years delayed so this makes sense for me! They sold anyways, which is good I didn’t exactly need them.
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i feel like i only have an air compressor for setting up tubeless tires, but im also finally accepting the fact that i cheaped out at harbor freight and bought the cheapest and weakest one they had. and its not cutting the mustard on these new jones wheels.
should i buy a new air compressor for like $200 or should i keep my old shitty compressor and instead invest in one of those pumps with the tubeless air blast valve for $70?
If you’re not seating tires every week I’d probably go the airblast route first.
I have a basic pancake compressor and a topeak airblast canister thing (that you hook up to another pump to charge). The canister thing works fine, it’s a little more work to pump/etc but a lot less noise and less of a pain to dig out of storage and put back in storage.
It was different when the compressor lived in the garage full-time for topping off car tires, but that’s handled by an electric inflator now.
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I’ll cop to using a CO2 canister to set a bead a couple of times when I didn’t want to fire up the air compressor
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Either an airblast pump, or one of those inflator bottles. It’s really the quick blast that gets the bead seated.
I have the HF pancake compressor, too. It works the best when it’s completely full. The inflator gets rid of all the hose and valving that might be reducing the airflow needed.
inflator bottle is probably the way i’ll go because my floor pump and my air compressor still sorta work and im not ready to be buying $200 pumps OR compressors.
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I have one of those Topeak inflator bottles that I’d sell cheap. DM me if interested.
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A strap around the circumference of the tire can sometimes help get it seated when you have a low flow air source, at least that’s worked for me a few times in the past.
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Take the valve core out. Use the straight up air nozzle on the compressor. I can’t imagine any manual thing is gonna beat any sort of compressor.
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This worked, and I hadn’t really even considered it until I read about it today. Tires seated up easily with no sealant.
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Beat me to it. This works great.
I had a bottle blster for a while but splurged on a blaster pump last year. Not going back. Worth it next time a new pump is in order.
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How much caffeine is too much for training or racing? I occasionally ride with a guy who I found out today takes in around 200mg of caffeine for a weekday 2 hour MTB ride.
That’s intense, I rarely hit that for 3-4-5 hour races or 6+ hour rides. Which makes me think I could have a lot more?
Google tells me that this is an average sized cup of coffee
That’s funny because Google told me 95 g was average for a cup of coffee
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Well there is a number given for 8 oz as a cup of coffee that is closer to 100 but I know of like two coffee shops that will serve you only 8oz.
I refuse to buy a compressor for the philosophical reason that bicycles are supposed to be simple. I lowered my standards enough to get one of those blasty cannister things that you blow up with your pump. I don’t think its ever failed me.
isn’t the ‘official’ cup of coffee like 6oz which is why coffee machines’ measurements are all misleading?
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Yeah if I make a pot of coffee I get 8 “cups” and it’ll fill three of our coffee mugs which are not particularly large
Are we doing coffee talk on every thread or am I having a stroke?
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