To Inflate, Or Not To Inflate?

How tyresome.

oh shit, and now it starts.

Going to have to tread carefully in this thread...

I ride on 15psi so I can use my lung instead.

I ride on 15psi so I can use my lung instead.

AS AN INNER TUBE?

Ed that is too far man.

I used that pump on Friday of last week to top up on my way home after fixing a rim tape puncture, and it worked fine then.

While they may put shitty pumps outside for people to use, they probably didn't even know it had been broken. It's not like they'd check it every day, give them a break.

This isn't an Evans-bashing - the pump at the Westbourne Grove branch, well, works. Novel idea I know.

yeah yeah but none of the staff do.

Not bitching, no. Commenting. A glitch is a mistake - this is known, so deliberate.

Is it? 'Fitness for purpose', and all that.

Got one, ta. I'm very expensive actually.

fitness for purpose is an idea implied by law into contracts for the supply of goods. contracts entail rights and obligations. by borrowing their pump you are not entering into a contract so you have no rights, or they obligations, in this respect.

free use of someone else's pump is thus a privilege and not a right. if it is broken and left you with deflated tyres, tough shit - serves you right for not carrying a pump with you.

1/ A lot of people can't use a pump
2/ A lot of people don't want to use a pump, they want you to do it.
3/ A lot of people would be happy to steal your pump
4/ A lot of people would be happy to damage your new bikes because they rest their BSO/ POS against them
5/ Tyre inflation is not a God given right

The OP seems to indicate the protagonist doesn't own a pump let alone carry one, is it unreasonnable to think he's at least partially responsible for what happened?

The internet was made for you. Like a feedback loop of sanctimony

Ever heard of the phrase 'it's the thought that counts'? You're being offered a free pump because you can't be arsed to carry your own and the free pump is knackered from so many free-loading cyclists doing the same thing. And you're whinging?!

Evans are providing a service that they by no means have to and a very helpful service at that. The object of this service purely being to build happy associations with Evans as a brand and to get more potential customers walking into their shop. It's hardly rocket science.

No doubt the naff and knackered pumps that have been terminally abused by cycling cheapskates will be replaced once their ineffectiveness is pointed out to management. In the meantime carry a pump and experience the true force of self-sufficiency. Blagging from marketing is a two-way street. Get a life and get a:

http://www.evanscycles.com/categories/bicycle-accessories/pumps/mini-pumps

I used that pump on Friday of last week to top up on my way home after fixing a rim tape puncture, and it worked fine then.

While they may put shitty pumps outside for people to use, they probably didn't even know it had been broken. It's not like they'd check it every day, give them a break.

Aha! You were a lucky ligger my friend, the pump having been abused for months was probably on its downward curve but you caught it while it was still coping. Top karma marks fella.

Bikeradar!

Bit of selective reading on the part of VanUden. I'm not whinging about the pump being broken - I'm 'whinging', which isn't the right word anyway, about them knowing that they're broken. You don't need me to tell you that's daft. If you'd read all I've said, then you'd see that's been my point all along. The employee told me that they only put the bust ones outside. So why bother?

You're absolutely right to say 'No doubt the naff and knackered pumps that have been terminally abused by cycling cheapskates will be replaced once their ineffectiveness is pointed out to management'. That's what I did, and what I hope for.

And save your cheap shots - faceless name-calling is the last vestige of the impoverished mind, after all.

I think the comments about carrying your own pump are spot on. Although if I was near a bike shop and my tyres needed inflating I would go there regardless of wether I had a pump or not. It's easier with a stirrup pump, less time, less effort.

Bit of selective reading on the part of VanUden. I'm not whinging about the pump being broken - I'm 'whinging', which isn't the right word anyway, about them knowing that they're broken. You don't need me to tell you that's daft. If you'd read all I've said, then you'd see that's been my point all along. The employee told me that they only put the bust ones outside. So why bother?

You're absolutely right to say 'No doubt the naff and knackered pumps that have been terminally abused by cycling cheapskates will be replaced once their ineffectiveness is pointed out to management'. That's what I did, and what I hope for.

And save your cheap shots - faceless name-calling is the last vestige of the impoverished mind, after all.

Calm down dear, it's only the interwebz. And nobody, well at least not I, has actually called you a name. So there's been no name-calling. Sounds to me like the employee you spoke to did a pretty good job of pulling your leg with the quip about only the knackered pumps being put outside. Seeing as somebody else in a post on this thread said they used a pump outside the same shop a few days earlier and it was fine...

Regardless, this thread is officially full of warmish air.

:)

Fair play. Agreed.