{"id":110790,"date":"2025-01-21T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=110790"},"modified":"2025-01-21T08:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:09:33","slug":"20250121-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20250121-01\/?p=110790","title":{"rendered":"Why is there a bulge on my bicycle tire when I inflate it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After replacing a bicycle tube, I experienced a problem: When I inflated the tube, there was a bulge near the valve stem. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the bulge. I thought that maybe I hadn’t seated the tube properly, but no amount of reseating made the bulge go away.<\/p>\n

A bicycle technician explained to me that I was getting the order of operations wrong.<\/p>\n

The order of operations for replacing a tube is<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Insert new tube.<\/li>\n
  2. Inflate.<\/li>\n
  3. Secure valve stem nut.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I had gotten the last two steps in the wrong order: I was tightening the valve stem nut before inflating.<\/p>\n

    It seems that the Internet tells me that the bicycle technician was wrong, and the valve stem nut should be secured before<\/i> inflating, since it prevents the stem from going into the rim.\u00b9 I don’t know who’s right, but changing the order of operations fixed my problem, so that’s what I’m going to keep doing.<\/p>\n

    \u00b9 And the Internet seems to feel that the nut is superfluous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Get the order of operations right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-110790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

    Get the order of operations right.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}