Re: [CR] Silca/Zefal, now launching Silcas

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PY-10)

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:11:15 -0500
From: "Ken Wehrenberg" <wnwires@htc.net>
Organization: wnwires@htc.net
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Silca/Zefal, now launching Silcas
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Steve Barner said:

If the owner is not being cautious, and if there is nothing to hold the piston back, it will become a very effective rocket. As long as it doesn't knock someone's eye out, and if the angle of the pump is right, the handle can take a very exciting trajectory, really enlivening the pre-ride ceremonies. I saw one go across the road into a field on the other side, once. The tire will, of course, go completely flat and the erstwhile rider, in an attempt to preserve his manly pride, will then and ever after refer this model pump

only prefaced with uncouth adjectives.

Steve Sheffield added:

Pump pump pump pump phwing! (as the Impero handle goes flying across the

room in Midvale, Utah)

Yep, happened to me, too.... fixed tire and was finishing pumping up when the fraction of a Silca rocketed across the road directly in front of a delightfully cute rider who probably thought me a_______.

Ken Wehrenberg, Hermann, MO -- aero versus lightweight anyone?