This might be a dumb question - Presta tubes in a Shrader drilled rim?
03-15-10, 06:22 PM
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The adapter slides clean through both holes. Looking closer even a shrader valve has a bit of room to wiggle around. Doh.
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Also, I can not remember ever seeing a rim that failed at the valve hole, presta or schraeder.
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If you do enlarge your presta-sized holes, consider using a hand reamer. Harder to muck things up royally compared to using a drill.
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This works nicely for enlarging holes: https://www.amazon.com/Irwin-10233-Un.../dp/B00004THYZ
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I have a pair of Schrader drilled rims which are too narrow to take the Presta rim hole adapters I have tried. I have installed a pair of Silca 2220 Schrader to Presta adapters on my Schrader valve tubes. These are adapters which are opposite to normal as they adapt a Presta pump head to work with Schrader valve tubes. They have their own valve assembly built in and when screwed onto a Schrader valve tube they depress the Schrader valve assembly so that the valve in the adapter becomes the active one. I have installed them and just leave them on the tube stem. They have worked fine so far.
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