What a pain in the ass to pump tires with these things
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You just need one of these.
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You should be able to get one at any bike shop for I don't know 10 dollars?
Then you just have one of these on backwards as a cap. You take it off, loosen the valve thing, put the adapter on, and use a standard pump. Then you take it off, tighten the valve thing, and put it back on backwards.For $10 you should get at least 5. Though bike store prices are bike store prices.
Presta are technically better in certain ways, but they can be a bit annoying if you don't have a good pump/adapter for them.
is just very basic and common due to non-bike uses.It's just frustrating trying to figure out the exact amount you need to loosen the valve that it lets air in from standard bicycle pumps
okkkk, presta sucks and is unnecessary but that is not the case. You just loosen it all the way.
That would make sense, but when I open it all the way the air just won't go in with my pump
This might be a dumb suggestion, but if your pump has a little lever on the head, maybe try flipping it? Each valve style needs the pin pressed in at a different depth, so if it's set to shrader-style, it might not be seating properly on a presta.
I usually flip the lever to lock the head onto the valve, should I try not touching it next time I pump that tire?
Maybe try flipping it the other way? Idk I'm not an expert but for some reason my old pumps you flip the lever down 90° to lock it but on my newer pumps you flip it straight (so it's pointing the same direction as the valve, towards the center of the wheel).
When using a new pump I just keep flipping it differently until it works, and I generally don't have problems with presta. Not sure if some pumps make you flip it differently depending on the valve type - it seems like they all invent their own way to support both so it's confusing.
I don't do that. That might be a shrader thing, but I think it just bumps it off the presta valve. You also might need to open the valve all the way until it won't turn anymore.
You can get a presta to schrader adapter that is a valve cover/cap. You just take it off, unscrew the valve all the way and then put the cap back on, and it works exactly like a schrader. I keep one on one of my presta valves so I can air up with any random pump in a pinch.
Meanwhile I'm over here trying to pump my partners bike tires up and can't get the damn Schrader valve to open with my cheap pump even though my presta valve took literally seconds
I like presta valves more but my dumb ass didn't know how to use them the first time I got a bike with that type of valve. Now the valve tip is bent. I feel it should be possible to replace just the valve without replacing the whole inner tube? But I can't find just the valves at any shops.
On better tubes you can replace just the valve core. If its non removable then its tube replacement unfortunately
Sucks when you use the runflat goo in the tube but it leaks into the threads of the presta valve and gums it shut and then you can't unscrew the valve to add air
