Wolf Tooth Parts goes all-in with Schwalbe’s quick-connect Clik Valve normal, including new EnCase Pumps and colourful Tubeless Valves already arrange for the brand new, sooner & simpler strategy to air up your tires. When Schwalbe sprung the easy-to-use, easy-to-convert Clik Valve idea on us final summer season, we questioned if it might acquire business traction, and whether or not shoppers would ditch their fiddly Presta valves for an additional new normal. It was already straightforward, however now, Wolf Tooth is making it even simpler to make the change to Clik Valve.
Why Clik Valve within the first place?
The great thing about Clik Valve is how straightforward it’s to make use of. Simply snap the valve cap off, click on a pump onto the valve, pump away, and snap the pump head off if you find yourself completed. No extra tightening or loosening the tiny nut of the tip of a Presta valve, and definitely by no means once more bending (or breaking) that fragile valve core when furiously pumping a tire again up on the facet of the highway or path.
However the true secret to Clik Valve, although, is its backward compatibility. You may simply improve any Presta valve with a detachable core, and you may nonetheless pump up a brand new Clik Valve geared up tire with virtually any standard Presta-ready pump.
Plus, Schwalbe claims a 50% improve in airflow with their Hello-Circulate Clik Valves in comparison with normal Presta cores.
Wolf Tooth Clik Valves on EnCase Pumps & Tubeless Valves
The Wolf Tooth EnCase Pump is now the business’s first mini-pump to be suitable with Clik Valve. Positive, you could possibly connect Schwalbe’s personal plastic converter head to your present mini-pump (which I did), however that simply makes it stick out an additional 2.5cm, possible ruining its compact portability.
As an alternative, WTC dedicated to Clik Valve by making a brand new set of the particular pump head internals to click on your valve into place, all whereas maintaining the low profile of the unique EnCase pump.
The brand new EnCase Pump for Clik Valve is offered in the identical 3 sizes as the unique EnCase minipumps and for the very same value. The extremely compact 30cc x 120mm lengthy and the marginally bigger 40cc x 141mm lengthy pumps promote for $65. And the largest 85cc x 244mm lengthy pump sells for $70.
Inside, you’ll be able to nonetheless disguise your different EnCase restore instruments, identical to the unique Presta/Shrader EnCase pumps that launched final summer season.
Wolf Tooth Tubeless Valve Stem Kits for Clik Valve are even less complicated. For $37 you get to choose both 44mm lengthy or 60mm lengthy alloy tubeless valves in your favourite of 9 anodized colours, and Wolf Tooth with ship them to you with Clik Valve cores already put in. Technically, it’s the primary likelihood to purchase tubeless Clik Valves in colours aside from black, in case you didn’t simply purchase valves and Clik cores individually.
However the WTC Tubeless Clik Valves are the primary to get correct matching-color anodized alloy valve caps, moderately than Schwalbe’s plastic snap covers. The Wolf Tooth Clik Valve Caps additionally double because the Clik Valve core elimination software.
A lot Extra Wolf Tooth Clik Valve choices, as properly!
Wolf Tooth additionally now sells the Schwalbe Clik Valve conversion equipment, too. As a result of when you go Clik Valve on one bike, you actually are going to need to do it on all of your bikes. A pair of Schwalbe Hello-Circulate Clik Valve Cores will set you again $12 per pair to transform one wheelset.
And naturally, you’ll need to convert your flooring pump software. Wolf Tooth has a pleasant CNC-machined alloy Clik Valve head for $14 that merely attaches to the Schrader facet of your present pump or perhaps a mini-inflator. Plus, if you have already got one in every of their EnCase mini-pumps and need to convert it over to Clik Valve your self, a $15 equipment from WTC gives you the brand new guts to make that work in a tidy setup.
All the brand new Wolf Tooth Clik Valve goodies can be found now (as are Clik Valve flooring pumps from Lezyne).
So possibly now’s the time to make the change!
