Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: y_p_w
And 126 PSI is pretty common with high performance skinny bike tires. I remember that my old Silca Pista floor pump could go up to 200 PSI easily.
I put >145 psi into my Vredestein Tri Comp Slicks (with a Michelin latex tube in them), and even more when I use the Vittoria Corsas, and YES, I also use a Silca track ('Pista') pump to inflate these.
Some of the older track tubulars could (and DID) take > 200 psi!!
Silca floor pumps were amazing, but their frame-fit pumps were about the worst ever created. They basically came free with many bikes and I remember trying to use one. It would eventually stop somewhere around 90 PSI. I also had one crack badly and then proceed to shoot off the handle past my head. They made an awesome pump made of steel, but those plastic pumps for pumping during rides were horrible. I had a couple of Zefal HPX frame-fit pumps which were superior with the twist that allowed you to lock out the spring. I only bought another one not because it didn't work, but because I'd bought one size too small because I needed it and the store I bought it at (got a discount since I knew the owner) didn't have the larger one in stock. My older one was also scratched after a small solo crash, but was still functioning well with a dent. A Silca would have cracked in several places.
Originally Posted By: y_p_w
And 126 PSI is pretty common with high performance skinny bike tires. I remember that my old Silca Pista floor pump could go up to 200 PSI easily.
I put >145 psi into my Vredestein Tri Comp Slicks (with a Michelin latex tube in them), and even more when I use the Vittoria Corsas, and YES, I also use a Silca track ('Pista') pump to inflate these.
Some of the older track tubulars could (and DID) take > 200 psi!!
Silca floor pumps were amazing, but their frame-fit pumps were about the worst ever created. They basically came free with many bikes and I remember trying to use one. It would eventually stop somewhere around 90 PSI. I also had one crack badly and then proceed to shoot off the handle past my head. They made an awesome pump made of steel, but those plastic pumps for pumping during rides were horrible. I had a couple of Zefal HPX frame-fit pumps which were superior with the twist that allowed you to lock out the spring. I only bought another one not because it didn't work, but because I'd bought one size too small because I needed it and the store I bought it at (got a discount since I knew the owner) didn't have the larger one in stock. My older one was also scratched after a small solo crash, but was still functioning well with a dent. A Silca would have cracked in several places.