Tuesday, March 21, 2017

How to Put Air in Bike Tires, the Azuki Ice Cream Way

And by the "Azuki Ice Cream" way I mean the "idiot college student raised in the digital era" way.

Enjoy my guide/struggles.

Step one: Look up how to put air in bike tires!

Here's the wikihow page. I love wikihow XD

Seeing as that I have never put air in bike tires before (my dad has always done it for me), I had to look up how to do it. Read/skim this page to get an idea of what exactly you need to do. Hint, the basic thing you need to do is take off cap on air valve and shove pump nozzle onto it. 

Step two: Find your bike!

My bike was in the barn so I dragged it out into the covered area of the barn and leaned it against our glorious 30 year old lawn mower.

You can't tell in the picture, but the tires are really flat. If you put any weight on the bike at all they would just flatten out.

Step three: Find a pump!
There are two in this mess.

Step four: Look at valves
Look at the valves and realize they aren't the standard shove nozzle on there type. Run back inside to look up how this kind works (it's on the wikihow page). Try that method. Fail at that method. Find a parent who is a 70's kid not a 2000's kid like yourself. Realize you have to shove the valve end back in and loosen the top before shoving the nozzle on. Remember electric pump is broken. Get the 40 year old hand pump.

Step five: Put air in tires!

Shove nozzle of 40 year old pump onto valve. Hallelujah it fits. Have parent help you pump air into tires and get tires to correct PSI. Thank parent for their knowledge and think about how dumb you are when it comes to real life skills.

Step six: Admire and ride!

And here is my bike, now with a decent amount of air in the tires. I rode it back to the house and my mom tried to take a picture of me riding because it looked cute or something but then I proceed to almost fall off the bike...yeah I need some practice XD

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