Love my presta-Schrader adapter!

[Zen]

yeah and I grew up with blackboards made of slate and fountain pens, but look at me, look at me now!!

We used quills back in my day
I love fountain pens. They're very hard to find lately.

[MomOnBike]

I impressed the bike repair guy on RAGBRAI by having an adaptor.

We'd given away our spare 20" tube to a family who needed it and needed to replace the tube. DH asked for Schrader but all they had was Presta. I spoke up and said "We can handle Presta." Which was true (the adaptor, and all). For some reason that really impressed the repair guy.

I'm a bit amazed at all this. I thought that everyone who ran Presta valves had an adaptor or two rattling around in the patch kit. Seems only sensible to me.