Originally Posted by
Trakhak
If you're in the "Presta valve caps and nuts are superfluous" camp, you deserve to know that the knurled nut atop the valve core is superfluous, too, so snip that off!
Originally Posted by
Trakhak
The way they did it was to glue the tubular tire on the rim, inflate it fully, and only then snap off the top nut. As long as the pressure was kept above 20 psi or so, they were able to keep riding the tire until it flatted or wore out.
You could do it with a clincher tire and inner tube, of course. But in the 1960s, there were no high-performance clincher tires on the market, so all racers rode tubulars exclusively.
So is your logic that because I don't want to castrate my knurled nut, I need to keep the stem caps? Sorry, but at this point, I have a bit of a morbid fascination with the truly awful analogy.
Also, I get to type knurled nut again. Twice,