How To Pump A Bike With A Presta Valve

As opposed to schrader valves which resemble car tire valves and are more common on u s.

How to pump a bike with a presta valve. Schrader valves presta valves and presta. How to use a floor pump with a presta valve. Here s a quick and easy way to pump up a presta valve with a d i y. How to fill those funny bicycle tube valves called presta valves.

Bicycles presta valves require a pump with a different connector than schrader valves use. This video shows the steps necessary to inflate a bicycle tire with a presta valve. Metal presta valves on bicycle tires are sometimes known as french or skinny valves. Serving all of flagler county.

A presta only pump has a rubber gasket in the head or chuck that will fit snugly around a presta valve but not a schrader. They are a little trickier to inflate as they use a manual locknut to open the valve for inflation. The schrader valve is the same valve that s used on car tires. Call tony at 386 313 2900.

Stop in at palm coast 1 bicycle shop. This is typically found in bicycle tubes on many road bikes and some mountain bikes. Presta valves are a lot narrower and are commonly found on higher end bikes with narrow rims. So a bicycle tube with the schrader valve can be pumped up at your local gas station if no hand pump or co2 cartridge is available.

As they have no spring in the valve presta valves are easier to pump up than schrader especially so with small capacity hand pumps and it also means small pumps don t need an in built device. To inflate a presta valve you ll need a regular air pump and a special adapter. The presta valve is on the left. Hi in this video i show how i pump inflate a mountain bike bicycle tire schwalbe nobby nic with presta valve.

The presta valve adaptor is sold seperately. The pump i am using is a blackburn airtower 2. The floor pump is control tower 4 by giant cool light plastic pump.