What is the advantage of yellow valve caps and threaded Schraedervalves?

I replaced the tires on my daughter's bicycle that she rides to school
since they were all cracked on the sidewalls, and put on narrower tires,
so I had to get smaller diameter tubes. The ones I got were Continental
tubes, and the Schraeder valves are metal had have a nut (like on Presta
valves) and yellow valve caps.

The nut is kind of nice when you're inflating a tire with a new tube
since the valve doesn't get pushed through the hole, but why the yellow
valve caps? Do yellow valve caps make you go faster? Or am I supposed to
use something other than regular air (on my motor vehicles, they all use
nitrogen in the tires and have green valve caps, and the nitrogen does
help a lot).

On Dec 1, 12:22*pm, SMS wrote:
I replaced the tires on my daughter's bicycle that she rides to school
since they were all cracked on the sidewalls, and put on narrower tires,
so I had to get smaller diameter tubes. The ones I got were Continental
tubes, and the Schraeder valves are metal had have a nut (like on Presta
valves) and yellow valve caps.

The nut is kind of nice when you're inflating a tire with a new tube
since the valve doesn't get pushed through the hole, but why the yellow
valve caps? Do yellow valve caps make you go faster? Or am I supposed to
use something other than regular air (on my motor vehicles, they all use
nitrogen in the tires and have green valve caps, and the nitrogen does
help a lot).

It's for European Heritage & MystiqueTM!

Even though their tubes are probably made in Taiwan.

SMS writes:

The nut is kind of nice when you're inflating a tire with a new tube
since the valve doesn't get pushed through the hole, but why the
yellow valve caps?

It's not just any yellow, it's *Continental* yellow (or whatever
"contigelb" is in English).

Hank wrote:

On Dec 1, 12:22 pm, SMS wrote:
I replaced the tires on my daughter's bicycle that she rides
to school since they were all cracked on the sidewalls, and
put on narrower tires, so I had to get smaller diameter
tubes. The ones I got were Continental tubes, and the
Schraeder valves are metal had have a nut (like on Presta
valves) and yellow valve caps.

The nut is kind of nice when you're inflating a tire with a
new tube since the valve doesn't get pushed through the hole,
but why the yellow valve caps? Do yellow valve caps make you
go faster? Or am I supposed to use something other than
regular air (on my motor vehicles, they all use nitrogen in
the tires and have green valve caps, and the nitrogen does
help a lot).

It's for European Heritage & MystiqueTM!

Even though their tubes are probably made in Taiwan.

My Conti tubes are made in India.

Hopefully the threaded metal stem might reduce failure at the
stem/tube junction if the bike is walked any distance with a
flat tyre. But I've only recently started using such tubes, so
that's untested.

John

SMS aka Steven M. Scharf wrote:
I replaced the tires on my daughter's bicycle that she rides to school
since they were all cracked on the sidewalls, and put on narrower tires,
so I had to get smaller diameter tubes. The ones I got were Continental
tubes, and the Schraeder valves are metal had have a nut (like on Presta
valves) and yellow valve caps.

The nut is kind of nice when you're inflating a tire with a new tube
since the valve doesn't get pushed through the hole, but why the yellow
valve caps? Do yellow valve caps make you go faster? Or am I supposed to
use something other than regular air (on my motor vehicles, they all use
nitrogen in the tires and have green valve caps, and the nitrogen does
help a lot).

The yellow caps are easier to find when you drop them on the floor or
ground.

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
LOCAL CACTUS EATS CYCLIST - datakoll

On Dec 1, 8:22*pm, SMS wrote:
why the yellow
valve caps?

Eye viz.

Andre Jute
who often has to ask his family to come hunt for dropped parts