Muc-Off Tubeless Presta Valves

Muc-Off says that its Presta Tubeless Valve Kit is a premium solution and at over £20 a pack it's not wrong, but it certainly has all the options covered to make sure these provide the perfect seal with your wheels. The anodised machined finish is absolutely spot on, too, for that added bit of colour coordinated bling.

• Pros: Impressive range of colours, excellent quality
• Cons: Pricier than most if you aren't interested in the bling

Most tubeless wheels already come supplied with their own valves, or you can add them as an extra when you order them and they'll set you back anything between a fiver and a tenner, so why upgrade to a pack costing £22.50? Well, first of all they look and feel bloody brilliant.

Both the stem and the valve caps are machined from 6061 series aluminium before being anodised in a range of eight colours: black, blue, gold, green, orange, pink, purple and red. They are available in two lengths as well, 44mm and 60mm.

In the pack you get two valves, an extra valve cap that is machined to be used as a valve core removal tool, and a range of adaptors to suit the various rim bed shapes. Each valve also has a machined locking nut with rubber o-ring to get the perfect seal.

Fitting is simple, as you'd expect.

Depending on whether your rim bed is square or round you select one of the adaptors to fit at the top of the stem so that when you tighten the valve to the rim by spinning the lockring and o-ring, everything fits together to seal any gaps around the valve hole.

It works a treat. None of the various wheels I tried them on saw any issues with leakage at all.

As you can see from the top of the stem that sits inside the wheel there is a 4mm hex key socket and 11mm spanner flats on the lockring. Muc-Off recommends that these are only used for removing a stubborn valve rather than fitting it.

With the valve in place you can then remove the valve core and whack your jollop in, job done.

As I say, the valves worked a treat for me with no sealing issues but then again I've used plenty of other cheaper ones that I've had no issues with either.

Would I buy them? Yes, because if you are into colour coding your bike then these look awesome and are worth the extra few quid over the likes of the other aluminium jobs on the market. For me, anyway.

You are looking at around £15 to £18 for the others I found online, so the Muc-Offs don't look to be hugely expensive in comparison; you could spend more on some Silca versions at £26.

Verdict

Pricier than most but do an excellent job and look the business