re: [CR]Pump Mounting Question

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:55:05 -0800
From: "Jack Fortune" <jfortune@uoregon.edu>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: re: [CR]Pump Mounting Question


> Hi All:
>
> The bike is a 1979 Jack Taylor Tourist, SN 7345. It has a pump peg brazed
> on behind the seat tube up near the seat cluster. The problem I am having
> is that all of the vintage pumps I have tried to fit in that location are so
> thin that they just slide between the chain stays. The only way I have been
> able to make it work is if I mount the pumps with the handles downward - not
> a great solution as the handle will collect rain water. Does anyone know
> what the correct pump mounting arrangement for this bike would have been?
> Thanks!
>
> Dave Clementson
> Palo Alto, CA
>

Are you fitting the pump bottom to the left chain stay?

Jack Fortune
Eugene, Oregon