garage air machines

[scorps]

i give up these new digital air pressure hoses will not fit my bike is this common to all bikes or just mine which is a gixer
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[Mr.Everready]

What do you mean not fit ?

All valves are still the same or do you mean the ahgle that it's at ?

Anyway, buy a foot pump so you can do your tyres before you go out. Less than a tenner, money well spent.
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[scorps]

ive got a air compressor /battery charger thing at home but its broke so best get a foot pump then
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[G]

Most bikes it's hassle to get garage pressure lines on.

A very sensible 'standard' mod the 675 has is 90 degree valves. You can get them aftermarket, and can get adaptors that plug into your normal valves, but I'd be slightly iffy about using the latter if you doing high speeds.

[sickpup]

I have 90degree valves on my sports bikes that need them including my three GSXR's. Strangely I also sell them as well as the adaptors.

[Grav]

Foot pump for at home and one of these for out and about.



https://www.busters-accessories.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=90TV

[xlfive]

[sickpup]

[mr.z]

There rubbish, because..

A. When your tyres warm the pressures can differ 2/3 psi, enough to make a big handling difference on most they should be done from cold

B. Most are hidiously out of calibration, only worth using if you also had a digi gauge with you..

All in all, unless you have a puncture there feckin useless..
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[dainesefreak]

I agree with mr.z, buy yourself a decent tyre inflator for home. It should be something you use quite often and you don't get some hammered piece of crap that a load of monkeys have had their hands on. It's also beneficial not to ride to the place to put air into warm tyres.

[krebsy]

Pissed me off when I had a slow puncture and needed to top the tire up to get it to the garage that when I tried to connect the air hose onto the valve it wouldn't reach. Rather than those 90 degree adapters, is there a flexible hose version with a valve in the top? I want to be able to just screw the adapter on, fill the tire then remove it and ride away.

K.
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[krebsy]

Will have to get some. Surely either the air machine makers or the tire fitters are missing a trick here... make a machine with a flexible hose or fit angled valves when you fit a new tire....

K.
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[krebsy]

Never thought about angled valves to be honest. Will pick up some of those brass 90 degree adapters or maybe just one. All I'll need to do is screw the thing onto the standard valve prior to topping up then remove it later.

If the short flexible hose adapter had a valve at the top and a screw threaded air hose fit at the bottom then you wouldn't get a flat. You'd only stick the thing on anyway when you were filling up and it'd screw on like a standard valve cap...

K.
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[veeeffarr]

Wouldn't the flexible hoses flap around and rip the valve out?

[sickpup]

[veeeffarr]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[TheDonUK]

I had a footpump, it was an ok one, the handle snapped when trying to pump my rear tire.

About angled valves, not the adaptors but fitted valves, would they add any extra weight that might fuckup the wheel balancing?

[steveh]

Just run the line, throug the top of the wheel, past the disk and down your spokes (easyer if its a 3 spoke wheel) And down to the valve.

thats how i do mine, never had a problem.
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[Jamie S]

Having a compatiotion trials bike, I run the back tyre at about 3-5psi and the front at 5-7 depending on the venue/terain, I use a digi one and I can get it down to things like 4 and a half which is really good , I think is was about £5 from some shop like B&Q.
And when only half a PSI can make the diffirence between me fiving a section or cleaning it then its money well spent. As I am trying to come from seccond place in the cheshire champion ship to first this year.Ive done it before and ill do it again ! just wish that tw*t on a fantic would fu*k off


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[Pete.]

I just jamb the garage air pump fitting in a hole somewhere on my bike, bend slightly, pull it out a bit, bend it again, pull it out a bit more, bend it again. That way it don't kink and break by trying to bend it too much in one place, everyone else can still use it and it will always fit my tyre valves and other bikes. You can also bend the tyre valve quite a way over without doing any harm to them.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Chriss]