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Old 10-14-20, 09:54 PM
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Classic and Vintage Frame Pumps

Curious as to what sort of frame pumps you folks use on your C and V bikes,vintage or modern.
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Old 10-14-20, 10:02 PM
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Zefal HP and HPX
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Old 10-15-20, 07:36 PM
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Colour-matched Silca Impero with Campagnolo pump head, natch!
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Old 10-15-20, 08:48 PM
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Silca Impero with a Campy head.
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Originally Posted by ManekiNico
Colour-matched Silca Impero with Campagnolo pump head, natch!
Ditto on three bikes. Zefal HP on the the not quite so classy looking bike.
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Old 10-16-20, 12:12 AM
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Painted-to-match Silca with Campy metal head for the Eisentraut. Zefal HPs everything else (2 Cinellis, a Ron Cooper and a Paramount). I might switch over to a Silca (not painted to match, but close match) on one of the Cinellis, but I might not.

I also carry CO2. When I have to change a tube on the road, I start with the pump, finish with the CO2. I like having and using both, and I get more air in than with a pump alone. I really like having the pump in case I screw up with the CO2. I hate being stranded with no way to inflate my tire. I carry at least two sparte tubes, sometimes three, for the same reason. What can I say, sometimes belt-and-suspenders is the way to go.
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Originally Posted by bikingshearer
Painted-to-match Silca with Campy metal head for the Eisentraut. Zefal HPs everything else (2 Cinellis, a Ron Cooper and a Paramount). I might switch over to a Silca (not painted to match, but close match) on one of the Cinellis, but I might not.

I also carry CO2. When I have to change a tube on the road, I start with the pump, finish with the CO2. I like having and using both, and I get more air in than with a pump alone. I really like having the pump in case I screw up with the CO2. I hate being stranded with no way to inflate my tire. I carry at least two sparte tubes, sometimes three, for the same reason. What can I say, sometimes belt-and-suspenders is the way to go.
Its clear as mud, If I don't take it, I will need it, if I do take it, I won't need it.

Spare tubes, inflator and frame pump, never been stranded from being overprepared.
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Old 10-16-20, 07:42 AM
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This topic has me rethinking my modern mini-pump; might need to source frame pumps. I grew up with a Zefal Solibloc, which is pretty but no idea if as efficient as the HPx.

And can the Zefals be color-matched to the bike?
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Originally Posted by tiger1964
This topic has me rethinking my modern mini-pump; might need so source frame pumps. I grew up with a Zefal Solibloc, which is pretty but no idea if as efficient as the HPx.

And can the Zefals be color-matched to the bike?
Sure, just so long as you stick with light grey or black bikes.
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I have my original Celeste Silca Impero on the Bianchi and a modified Zefal Solibloc inside the seat post and seat tube of the Cannondale MTB

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Originally Posted by davester
Sure, just so long as you stick with light grey or black bikes.
Funny, and technically correct, but I was of course thinking along the lines of can you disassemble one and paint it.

Hmm, now I recall that I also used to have a Zefal Competition, I think that one worked really well (I've until now avoided Silca as inadequate as a dog deterrent).
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Zefal HP for me as well (I only have a pic of he Fuji wearing one, though - same one since 1979! I bashed several before that over bad doggie noggins...




I have another on the Univega Gran Tourismo...

One spare -- just in case - but always looking for another!

I pick them up at various yard sales/online auctions/bike co-ops when i find them.
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HPx because they just work. I stripped the paint off one to go with my chrome Pro, and I may make a winter project of repainting another to match the off-white on my Mercian's seat tube. I have some Mercian transfers courtesy of nlerner to go all matchy-matchy.
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Bluemels Tour de France

I bought this Bluemels, and it fit, just not tightly enough on my braze-on pump pegs that are 19" apart.
I got a few rides out of it, and then it fell and I rode over it, smashing the tube. I saved the rest of it, (It cost
$60.00 with the shipping), and am hoping for a longshot chance at a new tube.

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