Absolute nightmare finding a working air pressure hose for the car around here. The one at BP yesterday was busted, went to the nearest petrol station for the hose there to be fucked, another guy there said the hose at the 7 Eleven doesn’t work. I drove through one petrol station twice to find theirs, it was off in a corner. And there was a guy in a work ute taking forever to do his tyres. Petrol stations probably don’t care about their air pressure hoses because air is free and inflated tyres improve your fuel economy
I’ll need to use the portable air compressor I have for more than just bike emergencies. The people at the first petrol station had a noticeably low tyre and I felt bad I couldn’t help them
You can get little portable compressors, easy to keep in the boot. Often have multi function like flashing lights for emergencies and usb to charge your phone from. Handy.
It’s so frustrating, right?! Am glad that a Reddy close to work has a working one that I’ve even seen a tech attending to lately. Feels like a fuckin’ unicorn! My car loves to throw a pressure warning as well, need to get that checked at it’s 10k service.
You have inspired me. I have my own compressor and my tyres were well overdue for checking, I went out and did that just after reading your post!
Then I got on a bit of a roll, I’ve now cleaned the windscreen (which had way too much bug residue) topped up the wiper spray fluid and checked what sort of headlight bulbs I need so I can replace those. The manual is useless and just tells you to replace the bulbs with the same type, but doesn’t tell you what that is. And it turns out to get to the bulb is a bit of a pain in the butt - it looked like it should be easy, but where it is positioned is jammed against other parts which make it really hard to manoeuvre, so that took way longer then I anticipated. But at least now I can find out what sort of bulbs to order. I don’t really want to wait for one to burn out, given I’m regularly doing night drives along the freeway now, only having one working headlight would be pretty nasty.
Absolute nightmare finding a working air pressure hose for the car around here. The one at BP yesterday was busted, went to the nearest petrol station for the hose there to be fucked, another guy there said the hose at the 7 Eleven doesn’t work. I drove through one petrol station twice to find theirs, it was off in a corner. And there was a guy in a work ute taking forever to do his tyres. Petrol stations probably don’t care about their air pressure hoses because air is free and inflated tyres improve your fuel economy
Maybe it’s time to invest in one bro.
I’ll need to use the portable air compressor I have for more than just bike emergencies. The people at the first petrol station had a noticeably low tyre and I felt bad I couldn’t help them
You can get little portable compressors, easy to keep in the boot. Often have multi function like flashing lights for emergencies and usb to charge your phone from. Handy.
It’s so frustrating, right?! Am glad that a Reddy close to work has a working one that I’ve even seen a tech attending to lately. Feels like a fuckin’ unicorn! My car loves to throw a pressure warning as well, need to get that checked at it’s 10k service.
I found this too, with riding my bike. So many places had broken air hoses that I started carrying my own bike pump in my backpack!
You have inspired me. I have my own compressor and my tyres were well overdue for checking, I went out and did that just after reading your post!
Then I got on a bit of a roll, I’ve now cleaned the windscreen (which had way too much bug residue) topped up the wiper spray fluid and checked what sort of headlight bulbs I need so I can replace those. The manual is useless and just tells you to replace the bulbs with the same type, but doesn’t tell you what that is. And it turns out to get to the bulb is a bit of a pain in the butt - it looked like it should be easy, but where it is positioned is jammed against other parts which make it really hard to manoeuvre, so that took way longer then I anticipated. But at least now I can find out what sort of bulbs to order. I don’t really want to wait for one to burn out, given I’m regularly doing night drives along the freeway now, only having one working headlight would be pretty nasty.