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Remember to help out your fellow cyclists that use CO2 cartridges.
I was on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday, waiting for
the rest of the people in my group. There's a guy with a wheel walking around looking at various bikes waiting there, most of which were the rental bikes from the places along the wharf. Finally he approaches me and asks if I have a pump. He probably wasn't too hopeful since I wasn't wearing a bike jersey (actually I was wearing my Phil Wood t-shirt from Interbike) or tights, and I was riding my folding Montague hybrid. Of course I did have a pump, but it was in the trunk bag, not on the frame. After he was done with the pump he thanked me, and I said something like "how come you don't carry a pump?" (since he had spare tubes and patches and tire levers), and he said 'I use CO2, but I got two flats and I didn't have enough.' I guess I never understood the logic of carrying CO2 versus carrying an infinite supply of air via a tiny pump like the Topeak Micro Rocket, which weighs 65 gm versus two 16 gram CO2 cartridges (117 grams), since you still need the CO2 inflater. |
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