"David Damerell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Peter Cole said:
Presta valves aren't very fragile. If they're failing it's either a Q/C problem in manufacture or a pumping technique issue.
It's all too easy to bend the shaft once the valve has been unscrewed. Yes, that's poor technique, but I'd describe something that breaks easily with poor technique as fragile, especially when the alternative is not so vulnerable.
Maybe it's a difference in the tubes we buy, but I find the valves difficult to bend/break -- I've never bent/broke one.
I don't just mean the valve body, but the little nubbin on the threaded shaft - if you're cack-handed, which I have been known to be, you can easily use that nubbin to bend the shaft badly.
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bike), but I don't know how it's possible to put much force on the valve with the wheel off unless your hand slips.
I don't normally take my wheels off to pump them - I do far more weekly maintenance inflation than post-flat inflation. -- David Damerell <[email hidden]> Kill the tomato!
"David Damerell" <[email hidden]> wrote > Peter Cole
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I don't just mean the valve body, but the little nubbin on the threaded shaft - if you're cack-handed, which I have been known to be, you can easily use that nubbin to bend the shaft badly.
Oh, that. Yes, that does bend easily, but I don't think I've ever bent one of those either, they just seem to stay out of the way.
I don't anymore, but I used to before I worked out how not to. I think it's reasonable to say that _in this respect_ the Presta valve is inferior, because other valves are harder to break. -- David Damerell <[email hidden]> Distortion Field!
