I CAN be done, but your tube may squirm in the rim, and a broken valve is unpatchable. A broken valve on your spare is thus disasterous.
You can buy plastic sleeve adapters/grommets for your presta valves so they sit in the center of the schrader holes. Pecco's boys once old me all MAVIC MTB rims built for tubes will be drilled schrader going forward. No sense producing two products which differ only in the holes. You can also buy very nice BRASS adapters for the same purpose. More expensive, heavier, but much harder to "forget", and they will last forever. You only have to buy two. I've broken the plastic ones, I have no idea how, perhaps they were squirming and the hole's edge cut through the grommet. See ya Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OBC Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 16:30 Subject: [obc] Presta Tubes with a Schraeder Rim ? > > For reasons which I am guessing are relatated to a more global availibility, my latest > touring bike came with Schraeder size rim holes. I've got a stack of Presta tubes that > are touring size, and I was wondering if it was an acceptable practice to use Presta > tubes in a Schraeder rim? > > Anyone have any experiance with swapping these tube types? > > regards, > > ,__o Greg Goodwin > _-\_<, "Life's a Journey, not a Destination" > (*)/'(*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > http://www.magma.ca/~whitey > > ------------------------------------------------- > For list help, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 230-1064 > Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb > Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter > ------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------- For list help, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 230-1064 Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter ------------------------------------------------- ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
