Silca

Silca Pista Floor Pump

£170.00

Colour: Red
Size: One Size
Sku: SIAMPU001ASY0101
Overview

The Pista Floor Pump is the ideal pump for race-day tyre inflation – super tough, accurate and with the single foot easier to pack in a bag. Ultra high-quality Silca floor pump with heavy steel barrel precision gauge and single foot design to offer compact yet powerful tyre inflation.

Key Features
  • Durable, high strength Steel barrel
  • Compact Ash wood handle with hose guides
  • High-efficiency SILCA leather plunger piston design
  • Brass check-valve assembly
  • Long filler hose with integrated Schrader chuck
  • Push on alloy Presta chuck with a bleeder valve
  • Rated to 220psi

Product information

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You have 100 days to return your item from when it reaches you

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  • Free standard delivery (3-5 working days) on orders over £45.
  • Standard delivery (3-5 working days) on orders under £45 - £2.99
  • Express delivery (1-2 working days) £4.99

For more information on delivery times and prices click here.

The Pista Floor Pump is the ideal pump for race-day tyre inflation – super tough, accurate and with the single foot easier to pack in a bag. Ultra high-quality Silca floor pump with heavy steel barrel precision gauge and single foot design to offer compact yet powerful tyre inflation.

In 2017, Silca took all of the qualities of the original Pista and introduced a re-engineered, limited-edition version of the pump with the iconic Molteni orange barrel to celebrate 100 years in business. These modern orange pumps were initially meant to be a limited-release product to celebrate the Silca heritage, but the positive response and demand for the product have continued.  As they're now in their second century of making high-performance pumps, the Pista is now part of their permanent floor pump line-up and is offered in a modern red livery moving forward.

The modern Pista preserves the beautiful aesthetics of the original but improves on the design in some very important ways. The gauge has been updated to a much higher precision; the handle is a reincarnation of the original but is now made with Ashwood instead of Bakelite, and the steel barrel and piston shaft are upgrades in quality and durability from the original.

History of the Pista

At the request of Fausto Coppi's mechanics in the late 1950's, the team at Silca set out to design a pump that would take the best attributes of each style of pump and combine them into one. The result, launched in 1962, was a design so elegant and timeless that it came to define the entire category of 'Track Pumps' ('Pista' is Italian for 'track' after all.) The original Pista paired a steel barrel with a 3mm thick leather piston washer, solid brass internal valves and the now iconic oval handle with two grooves for holding the hose that allowed the pump to lay flat in a travel bag or in the trunk of a car. These pumps were prized by professional mechanics around the world for their durability, dependability and accuracy.

With the launch of the new Pista, Silca has tried to capture the magic of the original while continuing to improve function and durability. This Pista upgrades the original Celluloid handle to a more classic lathe turned Ashwood and upgrades the chuck assembly to include Presta and Schrader compatibility plus a new bleed button to make chuck removal easier. They have also upgraded to a 3% accurate gauge fully protected in an aluminium base housing. Additionally, self-lubricating internal guide surfaces have been added to make it smoother running and more efficient than any pump before. 

What hasn't changed are the critical components that make Silca pumps so durable and dependable. This Pista uses a 3mm thick leather piston washer and solid brass internal valve assembly which have been produced in the same factories in Milan, Italy since 1947. These critical components are the heart of the pump and have demonstrated more than 70 years of flawless performance under the harshest conditions so it only seems fitting that Silca continues to use them.

More Information

Delivery
  • Free Standard Delivery (3-5 working days) on orders over £35
  • Standard delivery (3-5 working days) on orders under £35. - £2.99.
  • Express delivery (1-2 working days) - £4.99

For more information on delivery times and prices click here.

Returns

Returning a product is free and easy using our Returns Portal, which allows you to send your product back to us by dropping off your return items at any one of over 7,400 CollectPlus locations around the UK.

You have 100 days to return your item from when it reaches you.

For more information on returning items click here.

About Silca

Few brands have been more intimately connected to the last 100 years of cycling than Silca. The Italian-born brand's legacy of legendary quality has seen company's pumps being passed down through generations of professional mechanics and cycling enthusiasts - riders who value the experience of bike maintenance and understand its performance value. Now based in the US, Silca's heirloom quality pumps have been joined by a growing selection of thoughtfully designed tools and stylish accessories.

About Saddleback

Founded by real cycling enthusiasts in 2004, our passion for elite performance runs through everything we do at Saddleback. Our team of dedicated roadies, mountain bikers and triathletes practice what we preach to bring you the finest cycling products and a superior service to match. We're the official UK home of Abbey Bike Tools, Castelli, Chris King, ENVE, HJC, Moots Cycles, Pivot Cycles, PUSH, Sidi, Silca, Sportful, Stages, Troy Lee Designs and Wolf Tooth.

Warranty and Crash Replacement

In addition to our regular 100-day returns policy on unused items, all items purchased from www.saddleback.co.uk are covered by our full two-year warranty against manufacturing defects from date of purchase. We will exchange, refund or repair (at our discretion) items proven to exhibit manufacturing or material faults in line with fair wear and tear.

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