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  • I recently switched off of click valves.

    They’re are incredible for everyday cycling AND if you use a floor pump.

    They are terrible with hand pumps. Here’s why: with presta valve the pump head usually grips onto the valve stem (not the valve core). With a click valve, you only use the exposed click core.

    It can break off when you’re trying to hand pump a tire in the field. If you use a battery powered pump (as is all the rage these days) click valves are great. If you use an hand pump, it’s very easy to break the clik valve in half. A ruined ride is how I discovered this.

    If it happens to you, you can rip out the spring and pin and use a t-10 driver, tapped into the remain part of the clik valve core to remove it from the valve stem.

    I went back to presta.

    While the problems clik fixes are real, and it’s a joy most of the time, in my opinion the failure mode is so much worse.

    I was about to outfit 12 bikes with clik when this happened to me. Saved me some money and possibly a lot of pain. Long rides with hand pumps are my jam.

    Clik is still a great option for a lot of cyclists.


  • I have the same kit and it’s pretty great for all Shimano-style bleeding (shimano, tektro, TRP and more).

    OP if you have a modern SRAM brakes with a bleeding edge port, their bleeding edge tool is a godsend and you can buy it independently of their full bleed kits (and use it with this ez-MTB kit).

    I don’t have experience with Hayes, Hope or Magura brakes.