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03-08-20 | 06:52 PM
#26
Recreational Road Cyclist
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From: MetroWest, Mass.
Bikes: 1990 Peter Mooney road bike, 1996 Gary Fisher X-Caliber mountain bike
At one time, long, long ago in a bicycle galaxy far, far away, you could buy clamp-on doodads to hold a frame pump, if you didn't have a brazed-on peg:
But the need for these kinds of things has been superseded by
03-08-20 | 08:28 PM
#28
Old fart
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From: Appleton WI
Bikes: Several, mostly not name brands.
Campagnolo never made a pump. But Silca, for which Campagnolo made a pump head for their "Impero" pump, made a frame-fit pump that would work with those fittings.
03-09-20 | 11:45 AM
#29
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From: Madison, WI USA
BTW, be mindful of Zefal pumps like the one pictured in post # 4. The aft end against the seat tube can do this to the finish:
That's just below the top tube, some PO must've had a frame-fit pump with a steel or hard plastic end like the Zefals have. The Campag head for the Silcas has rubber coating on the tips that wrap around the frame tube. They can also be sized to fit vertically against the seat tube, with the head nestled down on the BB shell and the concave top snapped under the top tube, with no braze-on needed. For a pump like the Zefal, a wee piece of retired innertube rubber might do the trick to avoid the damage shown above.
Mad Honk - 04/01/2020 is coming up; someone should take the "TELEPHONE" sign out of that alcove and put one up in its place reading "TELEPORT". Would be esp. appropriate in a Cyclotron building.....
That's just below the top tube, some PO must've had a frame-fit pump with a steel or hard plastic end like the Zefals have. The Campag head for the Silcas has rubber coating on the tips that wrap around the frame tube. They can also be sized to fit vertically against the seat tube, with the head nestled down on the BB shell and the concave top snapped under the top tube, with no braze-on needed. For a pump like the Zefal, a wee piece of retired innertube rubber might do the trick to avoid the damage shown above.
Mad Honk - 04/01/2020 is coming up; someone should take the "TELEPHONE" sign out of that alcove and put one up in its place reading "TELEPORT". Would be esp. appropriate in a Cyclotron building.....
03-11-20 | 01:10 PM
#31
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My granddaughter put a dial phone app on my cell phone.
03-11-20 | 01:13 PM
#32
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I'm sure I've told this story before but it always a good one. I was making a delivery in one of our campus's older building just before renovation. It had housed one of the first cyclotrons in the country,so it clearly was due to be renovated. But while walking down the main hall off the building I heard a student exclaim "Wow, they have special booth marked telephone that I can go into and have a private conversation on my cell phone! As you can imagine any traces of a phone were not in the old cabinet. Smiles, MH
03-11-20 | 06:03 PM
#33
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From: NWNJ
Bikes: Road bike is a Carbon Bianchi C2C & Grandis (1980's), Gary Fisher Mt Bike, Trek Tandem & Mongoose SS MTB circa 1992.
to be used on steep and long climbs.
also, early aero design.
03-12-20 | 09:33 PM
#34
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1. To install your pump holding fixture, first locate the black, gold, and green decal that says "531". This is where you will install the Campagnolo pump holding fixture.
I had seen pictures of the Impero pump with Campagnolo head before, but I can't say that I had actually seen one live before. I recently bought an F. W. Evans that included a Silca pump with Campagnolo head and Campagnolo pump umbrella properly installed directly on the Reynolds decal, so now I own one. Included in the photo is one of the better hand-held calculators available in 1970. Back in the days before I became part of the permanent leisure class, I worked with a geologist from Brazil who claimed to have never seen such a thing. But, she was sort of mean to me and may have just been pulling my chain.
03-13-20 | 07:34 AM
#35
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From: Appleton WI
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Included in the photo is one of the better hand-held calculators available in 1970. Back in the days before I became part of the permanent leisure class, I worked with a geologist from Brazil who claimed to have never seen such a thing. But, she was sort of mean to me and may have just been pulling my chain.
Mine's bigger than yours:
03-13-20 | 09:01 AM
#36
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Yeah, it is. That's a trip. In high school, in that town that couldn't get any respect just south of you, there was one of those in the chemistry class room. It was a gigantic Pickett and I think it was even the yellow color of the old Pickett slide rules. There's a lot to be learned from one of those things, most all of which I've long forgotten.
