On 3 Jun 2003 02:19:24 -0700,
[email protected] (Trent Piepho) wrote:
>In article <
[email protected]>, Steve <
[email protected]> wrote:
>>I like to carry a spare tube, and now I need to repack my seat pack when I go mountain biking vs.
>>riding on the road with the kids.
>
>Wouldn't it be easier to go the other way? You can buy little plastic grommets that let you put a
>presta tube in a schrader rim. No rim drilling and they take up little space in a seat pack.
>Combine this with a presta to schrader inflation adapter and you'll have all bases covered. Presta
>rim and a schrader pump? Schrader rim and a presta only pump? No problem.
Good idea..just forget the grommets-there is no need for them. As for the difficulty of using presta
valves- that is almost always the new cylist reaction, but in reallity they are easier to use (in a
bicycle applicattion) than a schrader valve-particularly when changing tires, or defating a tube for
any reason.