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Inflating the bike tube. Personal transport

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To pump up a bicycle chamber with a conventional pump, you have to work hard. And the whole difficulty is in the nipple valve of the chamber. It is easy to replace it with a spool valve used on cars and motorcycles.

True, my method is only suitable for old chambers with a non-vulcanized valve: remove the regular valve by releasing the nut, and put a spool valve in its place. These are already on some bikes - for example, the well-known "Kama". They also have a pump with a matching hose. However, the hose is not a problem: buy a motorcycle one and screw it into a bicycle pump.

The first pumping will show the gain from such modernization: faster, easier, and keeps the "atmospheres" more reliable.

Inflating the bike tube

Author: A.Kuznetsov, Orenburg

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