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We gently slipped PutPlace out of beta and into full paying proposition. So now you get 20GB for 30 days and then its time to crack open the credit card.

However if you signup using the promotion code betaguest you will get 20GB free from now until Christmas.

So knock yourself out for free!

Track Pump

So this is my track pump. A sound investment that eliminates hours of painful handing pumping each year. Four or five depressions of the top handle will get most tyres up to 60 PSI.

So I had to get a replacement inner tube this weekend. I didn’t quite know the size so the guy in the shop gave me the best fit he could from a rim measurement but not much else. It was a pretty tight fit to get the tube over the rim (Hmmm should have paid attention to that) but  I’ve had this before with new inner tubes before. I had got new tyres the week before so I thought, new tyres, new tubes, lets take it up to 80 PSI. I normally inflate to 75 PSI but the tyres and tubes were rated to 100 PSI.

Well we got to around 70 PSI pretty fast and everything was hunky dory. I squeezed the tyre and it didn’t seem particularily drum tight. So I hit the pump are a few more times and KABOOM!

When my ear drums recovered I was looking at this,

Exploded Rim

Well the inner tube was shredded by a rip about a foot long and that long white bendy piece in the picture, well thats the rim of the wheel.

Lets just say, I’m gonna be a bit more respectful of the power of the track pump in future.