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Flat again today but prepared.
On 5/17/2021 9:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:58:56 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:02:03 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: I like a decent pump a lot better. My favourite pumps are the Zefal HP or Zefal HPX. I agree. And I had some luck with my HPX the other day. I hadn't used it for a long time, so grabbed it instead of my floor pump to inflate my tires. Well! I couldn't get it to switch from "X" mode (for clipping into my bike frame) to "HP" mode (for actually inflating the tire). It took several shots of lubricant into the fancy 2-way handle, plus a lot of working things back and forth. And the steel pump shaft was a bit rusty too. I cleaned and lubricated that plus the leather washer. I was glad I learned this at home instead of on the road. Moral of the story: Maintain your pump. - Frank Krygowski Silca is coming back to life and perhaps they will use their own pump technology to build full sized frame pumps if enough people write them about it. ??? Silca USA has made them, very well, for about six years. http://www.yellowjersey.org/silca15.jpg -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 1:14:14 PM UTC-5, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/17/2021 9:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:58:56 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:02:03 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: I like a decent pump a lot better. My favourite pumps are the Zefal HP or Zefal HPX. I agree. And I had some luck with my HPX the other day. I hadn't used it for a long time, so grabbed it instead of my floor pump to inflate my tires. Well! I couldn't get it to switch from "X" mode (for clipping into my bike frame) to "HP" mode (for actually inflating the tire). It took several shots of lubricant into the fancy 2-way handle, plus a lot of working things back and forth. And the steel pump shaft was a bit rusty too. I cleaned and lubricated that plus the leather washer. I was glad I learned this at home instead of on the road. Moral of the story: Maintain your pump. - Frank Krygowski Silca is coming back to life and perhaps they will use their own pump technology to build full sized frame pumps if enough people write them about it. ??? Silca USA has made them, very well, for about six years. http://www.yellowjersey.org/silca15.jpg -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 How easy is it to get the Silca up to say 90 psi and can that even happen? I have no information on them other than they are a frame pump. My assumption is they probably are much easier than any mini pump. Deacon Mark |
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On 5/17/2021 4:43 PM, Mark cleary wrote:
On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 1:14:14 PM UTC-5, AMuzi wrote: On 5/17/2021 9:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:58:56 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:02:03 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: I like a decent pump a lot better. My favourite pumps are the Zefal HP or Zefal HPX. I agree. And I had some luck with my HPX the other day. I hadn't used it for a long time, so grabbed it instead of my floor pump to inflate my tires. Well! I couldn't get it to switch from "X" mode (for clipping into my bike frame) to "HP" mode (for actually inflating the tire). It took several shots of lubricant into the fancy 2-way handle, plus a lot of working things back and forth. And the steel pump shaft was a bit rusty too. I cleaned and lubricated that plus the leather washer. I was glad I learned this at home instead of on the road. Moral of the story: Maintain your pump. - Frank Krygowski Silca is coming back to life and perhaps they will use their own pump technology to build full sized frame pumps if enough people write them about it. ??? Silca USA has made them, very well, for about six years. http://www.yellowjersey.org/silca15.jpg How easy is it to get the Silca up to say 90 psi and can that even happen? I have no information on them other than they are a frame pump. My assumption is they probably are much easier than any mini pump. Deacon Mark Define 'easy' !! They're not light - heavy aluminum construction compared to a classic Immpero. Heavier than an HPX too. By a lot. But tough. Besides dog flailing (much discussed, infrequently practiced) you could really hurt a man with one of these. Made much like a police baton with a rubber seal inside the end. Diameter is smaller (20mm) than a classic Impero (21mm) but larger than an HPX (17mm) and most minis (17mm & smaller). With your typical young rider's physique it's great. Riders who are less strong will fight to inflate to road pressures. Long is a feature but as we all know from HPX, long and skinny is better for most purposes. My daughter OTOH defines 'easy' as asking me to drive 180 miles each way to change her tires. I was there last evening. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On 5/17/2021 5:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/17/2021 4:43 PM, Mark cleary wrote: On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 1:14:14 PM UTC-5, AMuzi wrote: On 5/17/2021 9:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:58:56 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:02:03 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: I like a decent pump a lot better. My favourite pumps are the Zefal HP or Zefal HPX. I agree. And I had some luck with my HPX the other day. I hadn't used it for a long time, so grabbed it instead of my floor pump to inflate my tires. Well! I couldn't get it to switch from "X" mode (for clipping into my bike frame) to "HP" mode (for actually inflating the tire). It took several shots of lubricant into the fancy 2-way handle, plus a lot of working things back and forth. And the steel pump shaft was a bit rusty too. I cleaned and lubricated that plus the leather washer. I was glad I learned this at home instead of on the road. Moral of the story: Maintain your pump. - Frank Krygowski Silca is coming back to life and perhaps they will use their own pump technology to build full sized frame pumps if enough people write them about it. ??? Silca USA has made them, very well, for about six years. http://www.yellowjersey.org/silca15.jpg How easy is it to get the Silca up to say 90 psi and can that even happen? I have no information on them other than they are a frame pump. My assumption is they probably are much easier than any mini pump. Deacon Mark Define 'easy' !! They're not light - heavy aluminum construction compared to a classic Immpero. Heavier than an HPX too. By a lot. But tough. Besides dog flailing (much discussed, infrequently practiced) you could really hurt a man with one of these. Made much like a police baton with a rubber seal inside the end. Diameter is smaller (20mm) than a classic Impero (21mm) but larger than an HPX (17mm) and most minis (17mm & smaller). With your typical young rider's physique it's great. Riders who are less strong will fight to inflate to road pressures. Long is a feature but as we all know from HPX, long and skinny is better for most purposes. My daughter OTOH defines 'easy' as asking me to drive 180 miles each way to change her tires. I was there last evening. Nothing is difficult (or impossible) for the person who doesn't have to do it. https://www.forbes.com/quotes/9/ -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 2021-05-17, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 3:06:08 PM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote: I always ended my flat-tire classes with the note that, 'a flat is never at a convenient time, often associated with rain, heat, cold, mosquitoes or just running late to be somewhere else... We could probably do a thread on worst flat tire situations. Mine was in Acadia National Park, at dusk, on a long marshy path that was a short cut from our campsite to some road or other. The flat was the rear of the tandem. My wife and kid were free to swat at the million mosquitoes, but my hands were too busy for me to defend myself. Fixing the flat seemed to take forever. - Frank Krygowski This is the point at which you break out your emergency cigar and have your wife puff and blow away continuously while you complete the task. Wife and I took turns doing this while cooking dinner one time on a bike hike....eat and dive into the tent. Kill errant mosquitos. Listen to the hum. I can't believe the guys who bike tour without a tent! pH |
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On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 11:14:14 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/17/2021 9:47 AM, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:58:56 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:02:03 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: I like a decent pump a lot better. My favourite pumps are the Zefal HP or Zefal HPX. I agree. And I had some luck with my HPX the other day. I hadn't used it for a long time, so grabbed it instead of my floor pump to inflate my tires. Well! I couldn't get it to switch from "X" mode (for clipping into my bike frame) to "HP" mode (for actually inflating the tire). It took several shots of lubricant into the fancy 2-way handle, plus a lot of working things back and forth. And the steel pump shaft was a bit rusty too. I cleaned and lubricated that plus the leather washer. I was glad I learned this at home instead of on the road. Moral of the story: Maintain your pump. - Frank Krygowski Silca is coming back to life and perhaps they will use their own pump technology to build full sized frame pumps if enough people write them about it. Those don't work very well on anything other than older tube frame bikes. And even then I have shaken them off. The older pumps that fit on a peg were a great deal less likely to come off and go into the spokes. |
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On 5/17/2021 10:23 PM, pH wrote:
I can't believe the guys who bike tour without a tent! When my wife and I were first getting into backpacking in the 1970s, _the_ instructional book to read was _The Complete Walker_ by Colin Fletcher. One of his major points was "you don't need a tent." He advocated sleeping under the stars, or at most, a tarp. In a subsequent edition, he realized that there are places that have mosquitoes. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Tue, 18 May 2021 13:51:42 -0400,
Frank Krygowski wrote: On 5/17/2021 10:23 PM, pH wrote: I can't believe the guys who bike tour without a tent! When my wife and I were first getting into backpacking in the 1970s, _the_ instructional book to read was _The Complete Walker_ by Colin Fletcher. One of his major points was "you don't need a tent." He advocated sleeping under the stars, or at most, a tarp. This was my favorite when I was getting started in the 70s: Backpacking: One Step at a Time by Harvey Manning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...46-backpacking It was a really enjoyable read. Now, I doubt I'll ever go backpacking again. The body just doesn't seem up for it. In a subsequent edition, he realized that there are places that have mosquitoes. Heh. WHo knew? -- Ted Heise West Lafayette, IN, USA |
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Flat again today but prepared.
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:51:46 p.m. UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/17/2021 10:23 PM, pH wrote: I can't believe the guys who bike tour without a tent! When my wife and I were first getting into backpacking in the 1970s, _the_ instructional book to read was _The Complete Walker_ by Colin Fletcher. One of his major points was "you don't need a tent." He advocated sleeping under the stars, or at most, a tarp. In a subsequent edition, he realized that there are places that have mosquitoes. -- - Frank Krygowski That's what I love about winter camping = no black flies or mosquitoes. Cheers |
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On Tue, 18 May 2021 15:17:15 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote: That's what I love about winter camping = no black flies or mosquitoes. And the poison ivy and thorns are under five feet of snow. I only got to go once, though. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at centurylink dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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