hi this is Tim from canvas bike and supported here in canvas Washington's and today we're going to talk about inflating a road bike tire the materials we'll need for this is a good-quality pump and if you have a Presta valve and you don't have an adapter then you can get an adapter and then use a standard car pump keep in mind if you go to the gas station use the gas station pump they do move a large volume of air in a very short time so it's really easy to over inflate your tire so you also want to make sure you use a good gauge in gauge there and make sure you get the proper rating many road bike tires take very high pressure so you want to be careful and make sure you follow the manufacturers recommendations and they can always be found on the side of the tire printed somewhere as we're going to look for this one it's right here so our pressure ranges anywhere from 115 to 125 psi so grab my trusty floor pump here and this is a Presta valve so what you want to do is unscrew this valve like this give it a tap sometimes they get locked just from being closed for so long and with this smart head pump all I have to do is put the pump on and throw this lever and it locks it on there and now I'm ready to inflate so I just start inflating here pump this guy up once I've gotten it to the pressure that I want then I'm going to pull the pump off and check and make sure that my valve is closed so I'm going to take the pump off there's always going to be air in the hose so when you hear that pop don't think it's your tire and now we're just going to close that valve give it a spin and make sure that the tire is seated correctly in the rim which it is it's nice and smooth and then we'll just adjust the air pressure at least once a week you want to check it just naturally the air is going to seep out and the higher the pressure in the road bike tires the faster it will seep out usually with other mountain bike tires you should only check them about once every couple weeks well with road bike tires you want to check them at least once a week I usually do before every ride just to make sure I'm Tim and that's how to inflate a road bike tire