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Why use Presta valve stems vs Shrader valve stems?   Message List  
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Re: [handcycling] Why use Presta valve stems vs Shrader valve stems?



Gary,
Been using Presta valves for at least six years over
13,000 miles without a problem. Sorry for your
troubles, but you use what works for you.
Dale
--- Gary <cwthe3rd@...> wrote:

> Never had a Presta that didn't leak!
>
> Never had a Shrader that I couldn't use one of those
> portable
> battery air units to work just great!
>
> Never had a Presta that I could EVER get the
> required amount of air
> in without the battery pack going DEAD long before
> that happened!
>
> ALWAYS had to go to the gas station to get air for
> ANY tire with a
> Presta valve in it!
>
> ps: I don't like Presta valves!!!
>
>




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Sat Aug 7, 2004 10:25 pm

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Never had a Presta that didn't leak! Never had a Shrader that I couldn't use one of those portable battery air units to work just great! Never had a Presta...
Gary
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Aug 7, 2004
3:58 pm

Gary, Been using Presta valves for at least six years over 13,000 miles without a problem. Sorry for your troubles, but you use what works for you. Dale ... ...
dale beck
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Aug 7, 2004
10:25 pm

... Same here, Dale. Prestas for ALL my tubes, wheelchairs AND handcycle. Same when I was still able to ride a road bike. All my bikes had Prestas. Twenty...
Michael
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Aug 8, 2004
9:01 pm

Have bought those little screw on gadgets to enable Prestas to be air'd up with Schrader[normal]air pumps. They all leak! I don't have much of a problem at...
Gary
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Aug 9, 2004
2:14 am

... Well, it's sure not like you haven't tried. Almost sounds like someone's put some BAD hoodoo on you. You ever piss off any Frenchmen?:-) At least...
Michael
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Aug 10, 2004
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