How To Pump Up Bike Tire With Presta Valve

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How to pump up bike tire with presta valve. How to fill those funny bicycle tube valves called presta valves. Bike stores sell air pumps that can fit both valve styles or just one valve type. If you ride a road bike the presta valve above is pretty much the only type of valve you ll need to worry about dealing with. 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.

Serving all of flagler county. This is typically found in bicycle tubes on many road bikes and some mountain bikes. Road bikes 90 100 psi hybrid bikes 65 80 psi mtb 30 50 psi. The presta valve is on the left.

The pump i am using is a blackburn airtower 2. These valves work with a manual lock nut as opposed the spring found on the traditional schrader valve. Have you ever gotten a flat tire on your bike only to find out that the only pump available won t fit your presta valves. A presta valve s recommended pressure is usually embossed on the tyre s sidewall often as min and max figures.

Here s a quick and easy way to pump up a presta valve with. The recommended pressure to inflate a bike tyre to is usually embossed on the tyre s sidewall often as minimum and maximum figures rather than an exact target. As opposed to schrader valves which resemble car tire valves and are more common on u s. The schrader valve is the same valve that s used on car tires.

Bicycles presta valves require a pump with a different connector than schrader valves use. Metal presta valves on bicycle tires are sometimes known as french or skinny valves. Call tony at 386 313 2900. Inflating a tire with a presta valve is similar to the inflation method for a schrader valve but it does require a specially designed nozzle on the pump.