Look mom no valve stems
11-28-22, 08:51 AM
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11-28-22, 09:53 AM
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11-28-22, 01:20 PM
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I wonder how many of the people mocking this own a bike with internal cable routing, which also similarly serves no purpose beyond aesthetics and extremely marginal aero gains.
11-28-22, 01:48 PM
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IMO, the only purpose internal cable routing serves is to be a royal PITA when changing cables.
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11-28-22, 03:35 PM
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An aero valve stem is silly but if pros all start running it, it's a pretty good bet that you'll see it start showing up on road bikes at your local club ride or LBS.
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11-28-22, 09:07 PM
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It's a yuge issue here too. Those poor victims.
I kid and understand what you are saying.
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11-29-22, 05:58 AM
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Agree. For top-level pro riders who are looking for marginal aero gains, internal cable routing (or things like aero valve stems) might make a tiny bit of difference so they're willing to put up with the annoyances that come with it, but for everyone else it's entirely aesthetic. Bike manufacturers produce most bikes with internal cable routing because people want/expect high end road race bikes to look like what the pros ride, and by extension it's an easy marketing win to make less expensive road bikes look like the higher end ones. Internal cable routing really doesn't add any cost to the bike and can be marketed as an "upgrade".
An aero valve stem is silly but if pros all start running it, it's a pretty good bet that you'll see it start showing up on road bikes at your local club ride or LBS.
An aero valve stem is silly but if pros all start running it, it's a pretty good bet that you'll see it start showing up on road bikes at your local club ride or LBS.
11-29-22, 07:42 AM
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Lots of mocking here, but actually it looks like quite a neat solution for deep section wheels vs a super-long valve stem that is prone to damage when inflating. Also better looking than valve caps or exposed screw threads.
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12-02-22, 11:20 PM
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I have valve caps that double as a spoke wrench and a valve core tool. This would be a net loss. Why not simply have short valves and cary a small extender (which is what I do, not for aero reasons, but due to a purchasing error).
