Author Topic: Recommended Tyre Pumps  (Read 710 times)

Offline RDfella

  • Wise & Enlightened
  • *
  • Join Date: Aug 2017
  • Posts: 2194
  • Karma: 15
Re: Recommended Tyre Pumps
« Reply #15 on: 03.08. 2021 10:50 »
Used to be able to buy a tyre pump that worked off cylinder pressure. You took a spark plug out and screwed this in its place. Still have one, though don't use it. So your BSA runs on one cylinder whilst the other pumps your tyre. Its era is given away by the fact it is threaded 14mm and 18mm to fit engines using either plug sizes.  Don't try it on a B series or gold star .......
It has a valve to control flow direction and sufficient breather holes to mitigate pumping your tyres with mixture instead of air.
'49 B31, '49 M21, '53 DOT, '58 Flash, '62 Flash special, '00 Firestorm, Weslake sprint bike.

Offline muskrat

  • Global Moderator
  • Wise & Enlightened
  • **
  • Join Date: Jul 2009
  • Posts: 10780
  • Karma: 130
  • Lithgow NSW Oz
    • Shoalhaven Classic Motorcycle Club Inc
Re: Recommended Tyre Pumps
« Reply #16 on: 03.08. 2021 20:48 »
 G'day RD.
*eek* I remember those. I can imagine what the new ethanol fuel will do to an inner tube  *ex*
Cheers
'51 A7 plunger, '57 A7SS racer now a A10CR, '78 XT500, '83 CB1100F, 88 HD FXST, 2000 CBR929RR ex Honda Australia Superbike .
Australia
Muskys Plunger A7