Schrader and Presta valves
11-10-21, 09:10 AM
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11-10-21, 09:19 AM
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11-10-21, 09:31 AM
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Count yourself luck then. That 30 patches on a tube above is only one tube. Every tube I own that has been in a tire…and I have a couple of dozen of them on hand right now, in addition to the 30 that are mounted… has at least one patch and most have far more. I’ve flatted on goat heads in every month of the year. Fixing flats is just part of riding here.
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11-10-21, 09:37 AM
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11-10-21, 09:38 AM
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BTW...I have a mechanical heart valve, but I don't know if its presta or schrader.
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11-10-21, 03:50 PM
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11-10-21, 04:34 PM
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11-10-21, 05:22 PM
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11-10-21, 05:32 PM
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It'd be cool if it was a Tesla valve: https://www.cnet.com/news/nikola-tes...e-sense-today/
11-11-21, 07:05 AM
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11-15-21, 12:24 PM
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Good morning all. I was at walmart recently, looking over their bicycle inventory to see if they had the inner tubes for my bike. I saw that they had the tube, but it came with a presta valve. My bike has the shrader type. will the presta fit in my rim? I have a Marin hybrid bike. also, why would they design two different types of valves? Thanks
11-15-21, 12:48 PM
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There is a adapt screw on thingy for the Presta valve that changes it to a Schrader valve...any bike shop has them. Doubt that WallyWorld has it, but ya never know.
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11-17-21, 09:24 PM
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First, don't buy your tubes at Walmart. Even your LBS is unlikely to have good ones. If you stick with Continental, Schwalbe, or other top brands you're going to have a lot fewer flats. I've had Kenda tubes not make it out of my driveway, for example, and those QTubes that are sold everywhere are also cheap made-in-China garbage. The difference in price is well worth it.
11-17-21, 09:40 PM
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I've done several rides with caps in almost 50 years of riding presta tubes. Never saw a plus to using them, just another task to do (and undo). Every cap I don't lose doesn't end up in some animal's stomach. Now if I could just find a use for my bag full of them.
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The highest and best use for a valve stem caps once removed for tire installation is to replace the cap that comes on Drislide Bike Aid to prevent the admittedly slow evaporation of the carrier mineral sprits that I am constantly loosing when I shake the container trying to get that little ball to mix the molybdenum disulfide with the carrier.
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The highest and best use for a valve stem caps once removed for tire installation is to replace the cap that comes on Drislide Bike Aid to prevent the admittedly slow evaporation of the carrier mineral sprits that I am constantly loosing when I shake the container trying to get that little ball to mix the molybdenum disulfide with the carrier.
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...that stuff is used as an aphrodisiac, in the folk medicine traditions of the Mediterranean, where it originates.
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