Zoë was feeling a little squirrely yesterday; it felt like she just wanted to be flicked over. It took very little shifting of weight or movement of the bars to start her leaning, and I honestly felt a bit uncomfortable. This morning I checked her tire pressure, and both were just a touch low (about 30 PSI rather than the recommended 33 for the front tire, and 32 instead of 36 on the rear). I topped her up this morning (and now am probably a bit high, given that I have to ride to the gas station to add pressure) and she feels much more stable. I'm quite surprised that such a small difference in pressure leads to such a dramatic change in handling. Today I need to look into buying a cheap pressure pump; topping up at home would be so much easier, and I wouldn't have to guess at how much to add to a warm tire.
Lots of fog on I5 this morning; nothing like the pea-souper at St Helens on Sunday, but still heavy enough to slow traffic to a crawl. Every day I ride I'm grateful for the HOV lane, and the cutting in half of my commute that it leads to.
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There are many small air compressors for around $20 from Fred Meyer, WalMart, etc. I keep one in my car and one in the garage. Most are 12v and work off a car cigarette lighter.
I also bought a very small 12V air compressor from Aerostich. From Bluepoof I got the idea to make it even smaller by removing it from the housing and replaced the aligator clips with a Powerlet plug.
It plugs into a Powerlet receptor I installed in the side panel of my ZR-7 and I keep it under the seat of my ZR-7 with my tools.
www.aerostich.com/home.php?cat=266&sort=orderby&sort_direction=0&page=2
www.powerlet.net/products/multifit_panel.php --
www.powerlet.net/products/plugs_sockets.php
Posted by OldGuy | October 25, 2005 9:25 PM
Posted on October 25, 2005 21:25