Wilsons Sandbox

Quick and easy (read cheap) lessons: 1. always carry extra valve cores. while airing up in the driveway and taking the air chuck off the tire air just kept flowing out. poked the core numerous times. finally took it out and the little seal had 'blown apart' when putting air in. had i been in the middle of no where with no spare core i would have been hooped... 2. when you have not been riding your bike for a while, maybe it's senior itis setting in, and you've killed your bike in gear, and you go to re-start your ride but the neutral light does NOT come on and the start button does nothing... don't panic like i did and assume the battery is dead and get a fellow employee to give me a ride to get my other bike's battery and swap it out and it did the same thing... what? oh crap... put the bike back in neutral, hit the start button and go. man did i feel dumber than --- well you fill in the blank. glad i hadn't taken the bike to the shop for them to fix that one gregc ps. sorry mark i just hit reply not to the group...

On 5/9/2012 3:18 PM, mark ward wrote: > 1st. Go get a valve stem tool. $1.50 +- > 2nd. get some GOOD valve stem caps. > (The cheapies do not have an EXTRA rubber seal inside.) > snipped...