[CR] Silca floor pumps and Hirame pump heads

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From: "Mike Schmidt" <mdschmidt56@verizon.net>
To: Peter Weigle <jpweigle@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To: <006e01c9bdd4$a201e780$210110ac@PETERTR0JQH071>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:36:30 -0400
Cc: "Classicrendezvous@Bikelist.Org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Silca floor pumps and Hirame pump heads


For those of you who have Silca pumps and have not refitted them with an Hirame pump head, you are missing an opportunity to make it more efficient and easier to use the pump.

My only complaint is the ergonomics of the silca pump handle. Can the handle be replaced with something better? It still my favorite pump.

Mike Schmidt Millington, New Jersey Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Peter Weigle <jpweigle@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada
> asked,
>> I remember reading that the pump bodies were actually made from
>> Columbus
>> tubing and some had Columbus stickers on them. Anybody know the
>> story on that?
>
> John,
> My trusty orange 1973 Silca pump does have a Columbus decal near the
> base of the pump.
> No big deal, it was the local brand of "pipe" over there,,,
> My pal John Drake of Bike Works in Sylvania Ohio sent me a Hirame
> pump head for my Silca, and as Mark Petry kind of said, doesn't get
> any smoother than that, a real pleasure, thanks again John.

>

> peter weigle

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