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Search skillz lacking
Me wheels for the big red Wanga project arrived yesterday, SRAM 406 courtesy of Wiggle.
Nowhere on the blurb did it mention they were drilled for Schraeder valves.  I know MacGyvers have been mentioned before that'll let me run Presta valved tubes without shredding them in the hole but I'm damned if I can find them. Can someone please help the idiot? Thanks Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
Re: Search skillz lacking
I just use a couple of short bits of plastic tube. Texta pen case cut to length and use the presta valve "lock ring" to hold them in place.
You can also buy inserts for the hole in the rim. eg  Last edited by mitzikatzi on Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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ChChing! That'll do me.  Thanks Mitz, I owe you your beverage of choice  Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
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Some profiled valve stem locknuts might do it for you
  There is also a specific alloy insert that you can buy to do the job, but I have some of these very locknuts from tubes I've bought so I could use this if I ever needed to (not looking too likely). Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
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Fairly sure its one of the Continental family of tubes. I think I bought a 5 or 10 pack of their tubes in a Wiggle order once and they had the threaded nuts with a lip such as Pete's posted. Kym
All manner of half finished projects and a bit of randonneuring I used to be tech-savvy. Now I'm just tech-weary.
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That's correct Kym. Guess who got a pair of shiny new 'Gators for the commuter with matching Conti tubes in the same box
Looks like I won't have to chop up any textas Thanks for the link Pete, appreciate it. Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
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these may help
http://www.amazon.com/Schrader-Presta-R ... B000XNZU1S http://www.cyclingdeal.com.au/buy/allow ... tor/VTVL01 http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/mavic-rim-va ... -prod3335/ Ever since the vasectomy...I mostly ride fixed.
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Thanks for that Tally, more good ideas
Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
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