Re: What is this tiny piece of rubber in the tube repair kit?

[Theo Bekkers]

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Maybe this is obvious, but I have been trying to figure out what this
> tiny piece of rubber pipe that comes along with the patches, glue and
> sand in the tube repair kit is for. I do not remember seen this before
> (I just moved from Europe to Australia). Any ideas?

Is for your valve. The valves they had when I was a kid.

Theo

 

[DaveB]

Theo Bekkers wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Maybe this is obvious, but I have been trying to figure out what this
>>tiny piece of rubber pipe that comes along with the patches, glue and
>>sand in the tube repair kit is for. I do not remember seen this before
>>(I just moved from Europe to Australia). Any ideas?
>
>
> Is for your valve. The valves they had when I was a kid.
>
> Theo
>
>

I seem to recall hearing they still use them in Europe somewhere. I
raised the question when I went on a bike maint course.

DaveB

 

[mfhor]

Theo Bekkers wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Maybe this is obvious, but I have been trying to figure out what this
>>tiny piece of rubber pipe that comes along with the patches, glue and
>>sand in the tube repair kit is for. I do not remember seen this before
>>(I just moved from Europe to Australia). Any ideas?
>
>
> Is for your valve. The valves they had when I was a kid.
>
> Theo
>
>

I seem to recall hearing they still use them in Europe somewhere. I
raised the question when I went on a bike maint course.

DaveB

It fits on the old Woods style skinny valve with the collar, pre-Presta, pre-Schrader. If you pull the valve core out, you might have found a seat for the tube, which acted as a valve core seal, and a filler hole seal as well. They tended to perish, hence the need for a spare or two. Still necessary in Asia, as many old bikes (including their repeatedly patched tubes) are still around. Hence their presence in our Asian-derived patch kits.

Here endeth the lesson.

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