Tag: Impero

  • Pumped: Silca Impero Ultimate

    Pumped: Silca Impero Ultimate

    The frame pump is a much-maligned piece of equipment, suffering in the last decade or so from the proliferation of minimalist pumps and Co2 canisters, and its incompatibility with a lot of modern road frames with their swoopy carbon tubes. It didn’t really matter that it remained the best, most-efficient way to inflate a tyre, it…

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  • Silca Pumps Up The Volume

    Silca Pumps Up The Volume

    Long before you could fit a pump in your pocket or have it hanging off the side of your bidon cage like a cigar-shaped tumour or silver turd, way before you could screw a tiny chuck on a Co2 canister and freeze your fingers to it on a winter’s day, the frame pump was the undisputed…

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