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		<title>Attn bike jocks -- How does this pump work??</title>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:00:51 GMT" ctSaves="12" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="916" text="Attn bike jocks -- How does this pump work??" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/03/attnBikeJocks.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.42" versionServer="0.42" whenLastSave="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:08:51 GMT">
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:52:58 GMT" pgfnum="5962" text="&lt;b&gt;Update: With the help of the smartest guys in the world (the community here on Scripting News), it &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/03/attnBikeJocks.html#comment-177356541&quot;&gt;works&lt;/a&gt; and I now have two inflated tires on my bike. &lt;/b&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:54:42 GMT" pgfnum="5955" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/rapid.2/3875/36256/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/03/bikesmall.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;88&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named bikesmall.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been feeling kind of sick, but I must be feeling better cause I want to get my bike working! :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:54:59 GMT" pgfnum="5956" text="After a winter of inactivity, both tires are flat. So I bought a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5585281942/&quot;&gt;hand pump&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5585280902/&quot;&gt;howto&lt;/a&gt; that came with it."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:00:58 GMT" pgfnum="5957" text="So I tried clamping the thing onto the valve first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5584691439/&quot;&gt;one way&lt;/a&gt; then the other (they don't make it clear which way is open and which is closed). "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:01:38 GMT" pgfnum="5958" text="But either way I just get a brick wall. The pump won't go down. The tire remains flat."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:01:57 GMT" pgfnum="5959" text="I did manage to completely empty the rear tire by fiddling with the valve. Absolutely every last bit of air is gone."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:02:20 GMT" pgfnum="5960" text="Any clear, slow, step by step advice would be much appreciated. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:02:45 GMT" pgfnum="5961" text="&quot;curly&quot;"></outline>
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