Re: [CR]Pump with hose vs. pump with press-fit pump head

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From: "Gilbert Anderson" <cyclestore@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Pump with hose vs. pump with press-fit pump head
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:39:32 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


John,

Your photo link is not what Amir was hoping for I think. As I recall the Campag pump head had two prongs for wedging in a frame joint and worked quite well. The two prongs he wanted to see were a pair of opposing frame mounted pump pegs I think. My Rene Herse has two pump pegs (one is actually a ball bearing wart on the rear dropout) mounted on the left seat stay. I like this position because you can pickup and carry the darn thing into the Cirque (don;t let the tires get dirty) by the top tube without knocking the pump off of, say a top tube mounting.

The original pump was the pull out hose variety but I never cared for them. I replaced it with a Silca with a rare Silca pump head with a small counter sunk molded hole in the head. The standard Silca frame fit pump had a pump peg hole molded into the curved top handle.

Campag or somebody like 'SILCA" would do well to reintroduce that steel pump head Campy used to make.

From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> Subject: Re: [CR]Pump with hose vs. pump with press-fit pump head Message: 7

At 06:06 PM 12/15/06 +0200, Amir Avitzur wrote:
> Were any pump heads, that screwed onto old pumps,
> designed to fit between two prongs?

I have a Silca pump with an oval head, like the upper one here: http://www.yellowjersey.org/SILCA.JPG One of those old style pegs should hook around that head and hold it. John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada

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Gilbert Anderson

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