Seized pressure gauge

Can I use a thumb-ometer?

You shouldn't need to use a pressure gauge in the first place. Most people are born with two, one on each hand and they call them thumbs. Pressure gauges are stupid things attached to pumps, to appeal to idiots and make them spend more money. They are completely and utterly pointless. They add more complexity, weight and expense to your pump. They provide extra chances of leaks and further opportunities to go wrong or fail (as you're experiencing now). They take the energy that could have been usefully employed putting air in your tube, to push an inaccurate needle, round a hard to read dial. Their only function is to satisfy the wants and needs of complete mechanical incompetents or those anal and sad weirdoes, whose day will be spoilt, if they know one tyre has 2 pounds per square inch, more pressure than the other.

As a practical measure, you should know exactly how hard or supple you like to run your tyres and know what that feels like to your thumb. Their benefits of thumb pressure gauges are many. They are free, simple, easily calibrated, self lubricating and unless you are a complete moron, difficult to loose in a cluttered work shop. With a little practice, you can get tyres easily within a couple of pounds of each other and that is plenty fine for the needs of a any and all cyclists and that includes the pros.

And check if the chip pan is hot enough by weeing in it.

Excellent, so you do not have to add salt to the chips!

Is that another recipie from the Moser Cook Book?

Excellent, so you do not have to add salt to the chips!

Is that another recipie from the Veronica Moser Cook Book?

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You can check spoke tension using some simple maths and a guitarist's pitch pipe.

I wouldn't though.

Thumbs are not just great for checking tyre pressure, they can also be used measuring other things. For example did you know, the average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb?

Mine's not, my thumbs are massive and my

I'd better stop there

snail has made 1 friend.

snail has made 1 friend.

you? reported for grooming.

I thought he needed guidance in how to wind people up on LFGSS

the average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb?

Surely this is the other way around?

Women have longer thumbs on average....

But smaller penises?

To keep men under?

the average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb?

Surely this is the other way around?

No. Only for you Snotty.

If only I had a reliable gauge to double check, could I borrow your miracle thumbs, and maybe a miracle finger or two for some "other" measurements.

I would go for the lightest oil I had readily available. For me, that would not be FinishLine (my favourite general cycle oil) but machine oil, either from my hair clippers or girlfriend's sewing machine.

You're trying to convince us you have a girlfriend?
I think not.

Funny that you should mention that General, because, I'm really mystified as to why I don’t have a girlfriend. In fact I’m so mystified, I’m as confused as Lieutenant Geordi La Forge was, as he examined the Enterprise's faulty warp drive during the season 3 finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I think I know why.

I think I know why.

I think I know why.

Those Lezyne Micro pumps no longer come with the inline pressure gauges.

Are they thumbing their nose at conventional wisdom?

Those Lezyne Micro pumps no longer come with the inline pressure gauges.

They sell an accessory now which will sync with Strava

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sad weirdoes, whose day will be spoilt, if they know one tyre has 2 pounds per square inch, more pressure than the other

If you actually had a clue, you'd know that most cyclists should have more difference than that between their two tyres.

snail has made 1 friend.

I think you two may get on in real life.

"you fitted some marathon plus tyres to their bike and then sent them on their way with 40 psi in the tyres, why was that?"

Could it be because 40psi is the right pressure for some riders on some sizes of Marathon Plus?