Thread: long valve stem
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Old 04-23-21 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by vane171
Nowadays it is not easy to shop for inner tubes for the oldfashioned bike from 1970s, with 'normal' rims. Shops seem to carry only long presta valve tubes of the two kinds, for deep and mid deep rims, but even the shorter one sticks out like a sore thumb on my bike with those old shallow rims.

Are there deep rims for Schrader type valves?
I haven't seen any. Someone could drill it out to fit a Schrader, but then you'd be stuck using long Schrader's forever or using a Presta valve saver. I've had mixed luck doing that as they seemed to wear a hole near the valve. YMMV.
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