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[Speedbag]

I was thinking about nitrogen for speed bags recently. I remember when nitrogen was promoted in the Chicago area for car tires back in the 60's, 70s, featured as a selling point, a we're better than the other guy kind of thing. Looks like it's still available for discerning car owners like yourself.

I knew someone who worked for the telephone company that had a nitrogen cylinder from work at home in his garage which he used for filling his car tires. Telephone cables are pressurized, you might sometime see a cylinder strapped to a telephone pole at the base, not sure what current practice is, but that's a nitrogen tank used to chase out moisture.

I'd like to try hydrogen in a speed bag, haha, hope for some static electricity, make the last punch really mean something. Acme brand hydrogen is best, beep! beep!

Actually they offered to put Nitrogen in because I had a tire that was constantly going flat and they couldn't find any reason for it, but it kept setting the dash "low tire" light off. At the time the weather was making extreme temperature changes (30 degrees one day, high 80's the next. Jan and Feb in Texas) and they said that nitrogen helped smooth out the pressure changes within the tire. At the time it sounded like a "we don't know, hey let's try this and make the customer happy.." type of deal, - but it worked. the tire hasn't gone done since they did it, almost a year ago.