At least, I'm not alone, Tiffanie. It's good to have company. Let me scoot over and make some room for you.

I'll post a picture when I get home from work. They are black tubie looking things. Like an upside down U with another piece of black tubie looking thingy coming off one side with a cable coming out of it.

Well, I did have to go to the shop yesterday. They had told me to inflate the tires before every ride. And yesterday I was going on my second ride. Woowoooooo

I tried to attach the pump to the back wheel valve and it wouldn't hold. I let out all the air instead and couldn't put any in. My DH came down to help. My first mistake. He's worse than I am at this stuff.

He forced it down and held the pump on the valve while he put in air. Then we tried to take the pump off. It wouldn't come off. So he forced it off. All the air was gone again and the valve was flopping around.

I took the front tire off so I could fit the bike in the car and took the bike and the pump back to the shop for real help. Lord knows this poor bike wasn't going to get any help in this house.

Turns out that the locked position and open position are reversed from my old pump and we had it in the locked position. That's why I couldn't get the pump to stay on. And why he couldn't get it off when he forced it. Duh.

I mentioned that it was next to impossible to remove the tire and I was gonna have to remove it regularly. They said it was tight but would loosen up with time. And to bring it back in a month for it's check up. But it's really really hard and I think they are wrong. Mind you, my last bike was 20 years ago but those tires popped on and off easily.

Vlad (daughter's boyfriend) said - of course they are gonna say that. Cause you are wrecking your brakes. And they don't care if you wreck your brake. They make money when you wreck something on the bike.

Got totally confused and came here. I am so glad this board is here.