Re: First flat in a looooong time

On 4/2/2025 4:02 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 23:20:38 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

BTW, last week I helped a young woman resurrect her mountain bike,
unused for five years, so she can begin riding to work. She told me she
needed new inner tubes because the old ones wouldn't hold air.
>
Turns out she'd borrowed a Schrader mini pump. She didn't recognize that
it didn't fit her Presta valves. So I gave her tire irons, taught her
how to change a tube, and advised on buying the proper pump and a spare
tube, checked over the rest of the bike, etc.

 Even if that last anecdote was true, which I doubt, what was your
point in posting it? 

It was just general conversation. And I thought some might be interested that there are people who don't understand about two types of bicycle tire valves, even while trying to pump. (The woman is no dummy. She has degrees in chemistry and physics and works in a very high tech scientific laboratory. Different people know different things.)
You've told us how you stay away from other people as much as you can. You've told us how you refuse to even return greetings from people on your bike trail rides.
But people with fewer fears and inhibitions do have conversations just for the fun of conversations.
What was your point in asking about it?
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- Frank Krygowski