Although Presta valves are pretty much standard on higher-end bikes' wheels, the things definitely do have their drawbacks. Dutch company BBB Cycling has decided to do something about that, with a ...

AIGO-TEC is one of those brands that’s been around for ages, but you’ve probably never heard of them. The German company traces its lineage back to Margarete Steiff, and the invention of plush toys ...

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 ...