Are you familiar with that meme of the ‘This Is Fine’ cartoon dog calmly drinking from a mug whilst its house is burning down all around it?

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By ben_haworth

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That dual purpose pump is a stroke (forgive the pun) of genius.

You surely want flush cutting jaws for smooth / non-lacerating zip ties? Those aren’t flush cutting jaws…..

capra with bottle access preferentially for southpaws?

Nail clippers make a nice rounded off ziptie end.

No batteries, no problem

Hannah: “[Non-digital] because I’m tired of batteries always being dead just when I want to set my bike up.”

I’s confuzzled, what do batteries, or the lack thereof, have to do with shockpumps/trackpumps?

Yes I have cut myself on a zip tie and yes I still have the scar!

what do batteries…etc

Do digital pumps have a lickle battery to power the display? Hannah’s must do.

Unlucky Mark, getting a busted leg on his hols all the way in Canadian Canada. 🙁

I’s confuzzled, what do batteries, or the lack thereof, have to do with shockpumps/trackpumps?

Pros and cons of digital pressure gauges vs analogue pressure gauges?

Pros and cons of digital pressure gauges vs analogue pressure gauges?

Ah, of course, duh. I’ve only ever had analogue, hence my confuzzlement

Those Pro bars remind me of Tribe bars by their packaging…

I’m off to patent a solar powered digital shock pump and a headset spacer cup/bottle holder.😀

I’m off to patent a dynamo powered digital shock pump

A couple of pumps should give enough charge to read the pressure gauge – what could be simpler and more reliable than that? (except a dial, obvs).

Solid bearings, it’s something to do with sausages isn’t it?

Liking the bird of prey in the top left corner of the pic of Mark getting airborne on his crutches 🙂

@dessie72 it’s Vancouver so that’ll be a Seagull of some kind, just saying …..

every days a school day………..

Stopp, Seisku Aeg is very pretty but the melody seemed immediately familiar. I’ve just now remembered – it’s Clannad’s Passing Time (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGO-HT5-p8k to make your own comparison) from 40 years ago. Nice to know someone still remembers the Brennan kids! (Their sister, Enya, is rather better known.)