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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Robert Schenker" <ris@schenkerdesign.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:26:36 -0800
Subject: [CR]

Silca once made a metal head that fits those two-pronged frame fittings. I'm not sure how easily it would adapt to hose-type pumps, though. I thought I had a bike with a pump set up this way on it, but I can't find the pump. I might have been hallucinating.

Bob Schenker Oakland, CA
> Campy's 1030 pump head seems to have been designed
> to replace the hose on hand pumps.
>
> Hand pumps with hoses had more places to loose air pressure,
> most conspicously around the screw-on valve fittings,
> and the plastic hose to metal joints.
>
> Hand pumps with hoses required two umbrella fittings
> or two prongs to hold them on a bike.
>
> My problem with campy's 1030 is that it was not designed
> to fit a two prong set.
>
> Were any pump heads, that screwed onto old pumps,
> designed to fit between two prongs?
>
> I'm trying to find a good classic pump, with a press on type head,
> that will fit between the two pump prongs on my Hobbs.
>
>
> Amir Avitzur
> R"G Israel