Advice: inflating wheelchair tyres

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A recently wheelchair-using friend is finding that a bicycle pump doesn't seem to fit her wheelchair tyres, and they are slowly getting flatter and flatter. She mentions that she once had the tyres inflated from the compressed air at a garage, but I know that if I take the chair to a garage they will have no idea what to do or whether I'm in danger of blowing the tyres up. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks!

Comments

[stgpcm.livejournal.com]

By "doesn't seem to fit" do you mean "it is completely wrong" or "it looks like it ought to work, but doesn't" ?

Either way, probably the best bet would be to go to your local "familly run" bike shop and ask there

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea. I suspect a pump like this would work It has an Presta valve fit on one side, Schraeder valve fit on the other. We have one and it is so much easier to pump up stuff than a silly little hand pump.