1. Open the bike's lock.
2. If it's cold outside, take the bike inside the building.
3. look for the air pump of the building in order to fill the flat tire with air.
4. If you don't find the air pump, then look for someone who might have a tire pump.
5. If nobody can help you, then go back to the place where the pump should be and look better.
6. If you finally find the pump, than fill the tire with air.
7. Dive the tire in a bucket with water in order to see if any air comes out of the pipe.
8. If the tire does not fit into the bucket and you don't feel like taking out the tire of the bike only to see if the pipe works, than take the bike to the nearest canal.
9. Dive the tire into the water, as shown in the picture:
10. If there is no bubbles coming out of the pipe, then it is OK.note: If it's too dark to see the bubbles properly, then believe in your own instinct.
Protocol to fix a possible hole in a tire's bike (in case of the pipe is OK):
1. Turn the bike upside down.
2. Put a girl with laboratory gloves holding the bike, as shown in the picture:
3. Try to take out the tire, in order to dive it into a bucket with water (the same of the previous protocol) and look for bubbles (they indicate a hole).
note: By now is already night and dark outside, so the canal is not an option, neither your instinct.
4. In case of the nut doesn't rotate because it's STUPID, OLD and RUSTY (grrrr...), then try harder.
5. If it still doesn't rotate, then think a little bit about the issue.
6. Meanwhile, if you realise that the tire, after being filled up with air because of the pipe's test, still seems OK and filled, then think that maybe the tire was only without air, but healthy.
7. Say to the bike's owner (the girl with the lab gloves) to ride on the bike for a couple of days and see if in fact THAT CRAP has a hole.
to be continued...
5 comments:
either that or ask for the help of a mechanical engineer... ;)
Desculpa aí Fred, piadinha fácil, mas na resisti. (na verdade nem sei nada de bikes!)
Cool, also with illustrations and all. However, this looks like more a guide than a protocol and it could be called “Bicycle’s flat tires for Dummies” :P… but for this case the right title would be “Bicycle’s flat tires for blondes adapted” :P :P
Still, nice… :D and poor Fred…
Awesome protocol! I admit that the canal idea had never remotely crossed my mind, quite smart! :P But I haven't been in a lab for a VERY (and happy) long time, and i don't have lab gloves! :D Anyway, the big question is, after 1 day, was the tire OK or did it run flat? :P
P.S: Granda fred!!!! A mostrar ao mundo aquilo que todos nós já sabemos, um aero por perto dá sempre um jeitão! Só é pena que seja um bate chapas :D
to joao: Nao percas o proximo episodio pk nos... tambem nao!
=p
to ines: heey! isto n é o dragon ball xD tudo bem que já vi extraterrestres no blog, mas que eu saiba ainda não te deslocas numa nuvenzinha, ou sim?? :P (isto antes das 7 da manhã é complicado sair algum pensamento d jeito...)
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