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My love of valve caps is purely aesthetic / compulsive
Yea - I kinda have a thing for the yellow conti valve caps.
I like the way you've gone for a stem that follows the angle of the top tube, rather than a -17 that ends up looking droopy. Good stuff.
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Yeah it's not so much them corroding or rusting, more about grit getting in a jamming valve. But that would be more of a issue on schrader rather than presta. But I'm just a wierdo and prefer to see a valve cap.
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Maybe on cars but on bikes valve caps are basically useless.
I wouldn't says useless.
For certain application, I don't see any reason to leave them in, such as for track racing, serve no purpose especially since the bicycle end up being indoor in a dry environment.
However the majority of application most definitely benefit from a valve caps being in places, haven't wrestle with so much stuck valves on customer's bicycles due to even the slightest bit of negligence.
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Maybe on cars but on bikes valve caps are basically useless. There's no way that a valve would corrode or rust within its useable life if you're pumping it up regularly. Regardless, tubes are ~2 quid, who gives a shit. My love of valve caps is purely aesthetic / compulsive