Re: [Paddlewise] Foot Pumps

Rainer Schroeter wrote:

> > Rainer Schroeter, Marburg, Germany wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Look at: http://www.zoelzer.de/sicherheit.htm
> > >
> > >
> >
> > That's not the one I'm thinking of, though it's similar.
> >
> > > The posting in question was originally by Bob Denton - He has a picture of a
> > > two pedal German-made pump at http://www.flinet.com/gulfstream/paddle.html
> > >
> >
> > That's the one.  It looks like it works asynchronously (i.e one foot forward with the
> > other back).  The one Rainer referenced looks like it might be synchronously
> > pedalled - I can't read much of the German text to figure it out.
>
> I am sorry, but the pump is the same on both sites (Bob Denton scanned a
> picture from the catalogue of Zoelzer). The pump is only the rubber-thing
> in the middle between the steering-pedals. It works like most other
> footpumps with a spring inside, you push it with one foot.
>

You're correct, and someone pointed that out to me offline.  Because the pedals
looked a bit different, I thought they were different units.  It was also pointed
out that the pedals don't work the pump - I thought they did.

My expectation was that the pump and pedals shown sat inboard of the kayak
footpegs and you could take your feet off the footpegs and shift them to the
pump pedals to activate the pump.  This approach seems to me to be a
good one - two footpegs for paddling, two pump pedals for pumping.

Now maybe someone can actually make a device that works that way.

Thanks for the correction!
Mike

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