Re: [CR] Silca or CO2?

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:41:58 -0700
From: "Guy Taylor" <guy.taylor@sbcglobal.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, David Manderscheid <dmanderscheid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Silca or CO2?


As a caveat I will say that I have never used a CO2 cartridge for tires. But I am unlikely to as I always seem to see worst case scenario. I recently saw an ironman triathalon on tv where one of the top people stood at the side of the road unable to inflate a tire. She had screwed up the first CO2 cartridge and lost all its pressure. With only one cartridge she was finished until someone gave her another... and that was a long wait.

Guy Taylor
Anaheim, CA  USA


--- On Mon, 6/29/09, David Manderscheid wrote:


From: David Manderscheid <dmanderscheid@gmail.com> Subject: [CR] Silca or CO2? To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 3:29 PM

I had a flat while riding my 76 Masi yesterday and it took forever, it seemed, to get a rideable pressure in my spare sewup using my silca with campy metal head. Fellow riders were amused and suggested I enter the modern age and use CO2 cartridges. Are they safe for sewups? Any gotchas?

Thanks
David Manderscheid
Lincoln, NE