Originally Posted by
Milton Keynes
I've never had an issue airing up my tires with my air compressor and a Presta-to-Schrader adaptor. It does take a few extra seconds to pull it out of my under seat bag and screw it onto the stem, but once it's on I can put my tires up to 80 PSI where I need them.
But to each their own.
I did have another thread running on this as well to see if I could find what the problem was ... some of the chucks on the end of the inflator aren't great and were struggling to get a proper seal so you couldn't get an accurate pressure reading which I think was caused as the pin in the presta popped back out with the pressure from the air in the tyre ... it was also a lot worse on one tyre than the other where they had slightly different valves .. one had no thread / retainer and is the one that caused the worse issue.
That said having changed them over the weekend the problem's solved but had also ordered a different air chuck which arrived to day and actually seems to get a reliable seal and possibly would of cured it.
Either way testing the new chuck on both car and bike tyres today works a treat on all of them and made it an incredibly quick and easy job so happy days
