Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
Fine if you have good frame pumping skills and strong hands/arms. Many guys I have met have one of these but fail at the other. Many women I know have less of each. But, yes, the Campy head is the only way to run a Silca. Andy
Conti sew-ups, Silca pump and a very small swiss army knife and when I flatted, which was often, I took off the rear wheel, cut the sew-up, pealed it off the rim. Then, I put on the spare Conti, which was stretched and had lots of glue on it, and pumped it up to thumb feel "high pressure".
I could change a flat much faster with sew ups than I ever can with clinchers and CO2.