New to cycling

[mik]

speaking of bike tyres , after buying some car valve adapters to fit the petra valves, bloody hell , i never heard about these petra valves until i went to put some air in and found the valves had changed to these weird things, i suppose they have been out for a while and the bike shop just expected me to know about them, anyway i bloody dont like em much , at tyre change i might drill the rim out and put the old car valve style back in.

After putting some extra air in , it was a whole lot easier of a ride tonight, the tyres did not actually feeel low on air, though they are big spongy mountain bike tyres, i put the auto air thing on inflate from flat....... (full throttle) and put my thumb into the tyre while putting pressure on it with my other hand to get a feel how far i could pump them up before popping , woweee what a difference.
I felt stuffed before i left , been full on today, i felt pretty good on the bike after a k or 2 though , knocked over 10.7 k`s tonight.
i used the cycling app on my galaxy note for the first time tonight, ive had galaxy notes for 3 years and never opened the app up until recently on walks , and bikes , dam good it is , you set a target distance , say 6 k`s and it will tell you your distance every half and full k`, at the full k it tells you the average speed, expected time to finish , and at the end it gives all the details , calories burned, max hills over distance , etc , etc and it tracks you with the gps and leaves you with a map and thew route you took with the details , ............ very cool i reckon.