presta valves are rubbish

[Easy_Rider]

I say again, Dunlop!

Presta = Fragile, temperamental French thing
Shrader = Overweight American thing
Dunlop (Woods) = Under engineered, elegant, simple British thing that's still used in many countries, but oddly not the UK :?

 

[ratbane]

....

How about the old Dunlop valve

My Grifter had those.

 

[andrewl]

does anyone else detest these bloody things ?

Well I love them. Never had an issue at all with these valves.

Tubes on the other hand, are not a big favourite the only flats I've had in the last 6 years have involved tubes. Tubeless much better

 

[shogun700]

Mostly, presta valves make me hate myself-I'm a notorious 'misplacer' and always seem to lose the threaded locknut on them somehow. Teeny caps always vanish as well. Bah! What a moron!

 

[Radar]

Locknuts - pm your address I'll post you loads. Never use locknuts. I only run mavic rims which mtb wise have a nice rubber bung which keeps everything snug and in place.

 

[lewis1641]

Switched over to presta years ago,, and never had any problems.. ?

Always used quality tubes though,, what inner tubes you using.. ?

i have used cheapies but also specialized and bontrager and hate all equally.

maybe i'm too ham fisted

 

[DM]

Spesh, Bontrager & Schwalbe.
Though I haven't snapped the Schwalbes yet.

Mebe I R hamfisted 2?

 

[perry]

Hate them too . Using the airline at the garage is too convenient for that roadie crap and who hasn't nicked the valve cores out of a mates tyres while he wasn't looking then laugh as you watch him pump the tyre up and lose all the air when the pumps removed

 

[Steve Kish]

Presta FTW - Schrader ..... not for me.

BTW, I never use the threaded locknut, as AFAIK, these were made for the old 27 x 1 3/8 steel high pressure rims that needed something to clamp the valves against the thin single layer steel rim. Alloy rims with twin walls shouldn't need these. In fact, my Presta valves on my road bike don't have a threaded shaft.

 

[FluffyChicken]

I like them as I can use any pump on them. Just keep an Alu (not brass as they is heavy) adaptor either in your bag for petrol pumps or leave it screwed on.

Best of both worlds