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  • I was in my local Evans yesterday, its one of these warehouse style ones with offices, so most stuff you have to look up on a screen and get them to send one down just to look at it, i wanted to try some bars.

    I asked why they did not carry velcro straps, i was then talked down to by to young hipsters about the small buisness and the reason there are no small bike shops in our town anymore.

    You should have seen their faces when i asked for an adapter for my 'old fashon' pump, "no you cant buy them anymore" am i really that old, you used to be able to walk into any hardware store on your local parade and they would have 2 types of plaid/cloth covered adapter that screw into any bike pump, now you can only get the car type and a little adapter for the smaller one on my new 700c's, oh, there are no hardware stores left round here because of b&q and the like.

    If i ever win the lottery, i'm opening a local bike/skate/hardware/butchers/greengrocer/fishmonger/florist/bakers/offlicence,

    oh bugger, thats a supermarket.

    i feel old today, hahahahahahahaha.

    Those adapters were shit. Good riddance. For a start they were predominantly for woods valves which are the most irritating contraption in the history of bicycles. And furthermore they leak air, so are impossible to use to get your tyres to anything higher than 20psi, but then the kind of pumps you attach them to cant manage that either.

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