Just installed a tubeless tire and had Orange sealant spray all over me during inflation. Strangely I didn’t have any issues with the presta valve. I think there might be other parts of mountain biking that suck more.
Riding tubes in a so-called third world country, it’s been more than 10 years I’ve found tires with Schrader valves at local bike shops. Everyone and their grandma seems to be selling and getting prestas - for bycicles, that is.
His final sentiment is the same as mine, meh who really cares. Presta works fine for me and i’ve never really had any issues with them.
I ride a fat bike in the winter and honestly fuck pumping the wheels with presta valves even just going for low psi. I swapped to schrader and its way faster. The road bike has presta just because thats the size of the hole and I don’t want to drill out carbon rims. It’s also way lower volume so its fast enough anyway.
@Grass @muelltonne It really makes that much of a difference?
at the very least I couldn’t seat the fat tire with the hand pump. I borrowed the bottle thing from my friend where you pump it up to a pretty hich psi and burst the tire on. with the schrader I got it on just pumping kinda fast.
and with either valve type a pocket pump just isn’t happening for a fat bike without unrealistic amounts of patience.
That’s all tubeless btw. Fat tubes I’ve only seen schrader.
Hot take
I like presta valves. I wish my mountain bikes had them instead of Schrader valves.
I’ve always found that both work just fine.
I have bent a presta valve though, but in my case, it continues to work fine. It does prove his point that they’re fragile.
