Roughly 130 years ago, New Yorker August Schrader and his able son, George, applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect the ownership of their new invention. It was a valve. "This ...

There aren't many technologies as ubiquitous in cycling as the Presta air valve. So it's surprising that, in the roughly 100 years since its invention, it's basically never changed. Until now. A new ...

If you’ve worked on a high-end mountain or road bike for any length of time, you have likely cursed the Presta valve. This humble century-old invention is the bane of many a home and professional ...

If the cylinder heads are on the engine, you will need to add air pressure to the cylinder to hold the valves in place. Our example is the Craftsman 47089 compression test kit using the 14mm long ...

IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A BIKE PUMP. That’s because this isn’t the 1970s, grandad. Only masochists still use a manually-operated ...

Schwalbe has presented “a revolution” for bicycle valves with the Schwalbe Clik Valve (SCV). The product has the potential to become the new industry standard in the medium term thanks to it tackling ...

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