Timeline for Which kind of tube valve is the best?
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| May 21, 2014 at 5:17 | comment | added | Jahaziel | Almost all modern bike pumps have some sort of check valve to avoid back pressure, and many have dual purpose heads for presta/schrader use. | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 0:59 | comment | added | geoffc | @BillyNair We are agreed. Car tire style (Schrader) need something to depress the valve. The thinner racing tire style (Presta) use air pressure to depress it on each pump. | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 7:16 | comment | added | BillyNair | I have read this a few places and I am not sure why people are saying that you need air pressure to depress a Schrader valve. There might be some pumps that do this, but all the pumps I have ever owned use a small rod to push the core down, absolutely independent of air pressure. | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 2:55 | comment | added | D'Arcy Norman | @neilfein I use presta, and picked up a valve adapter for under a buck. keep it in my panier in case I need to use gas station pumps (or other non-presta pumps). works great. weighs maybe a gram. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 20:27 | history | edited | geoffc | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 26, 2010 at 13:54 | comment | added | Dan McClain | @neilfein: If you have presta valves, you should definitely carry an adapter so that you can use normal pumps. If not, you aren't properly equipped! | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 22:40 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | I would add that Schrader valves are better where it's important that you be able to use a gas station pump. | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 20:37 | vote | accept | Johan Dahlin | ||
| Aug 25, 2010 at 20:21 | history | answered | geoffc | CC BY-SA 2.5 |