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* Re: Why is it called a presta valve and who invented it and when?Tom Kunich
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On Monday, June 18, 2007 at 5:49:19 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote:
> In article <di6c73hk4lgj0da1p...@4ax.com>,
> carl...@comcast.net wrote:
> snip
> >
> > And what's the story on presta? Or Presta?
> snip
> >
> > Carl Fogel
> For what it's worth, here in Switzerland Presta valves are colloquially
> called "French valves" ("franzoesische Ventile").

Also for what it's worth, presta in Italian means "lends itself". In Spanish it means "If you pay (attention)". In Dutch they call it by the original name "Sclaverand" some of the time.

Otherwise everyone seems to have accepted the Zephal name of Presta (or presta in American).

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 by: AMuzi - Wed, 9 Feb 2022 19:51 UTC

On 2/9/2022 1:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> On Monday, June 18, 2007 at 5:49:19 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote:
>> In article <di6c73hk4lgj0da1p...@4ax.com>,
>> carl...@comcast.net wrote:
>> snip
>>>
>>> And what's the story on presta? Or Presta?
>> snip
>>>
>>> Carl Fogel
>> For what it's worth, here in Switzerland Presta valves are colloquially
>> called "French valves" ("franzoesische Ventile").
>
> Also for what it's worth, presta in Italian means "lends itself". In Spanish it means "If you pay (attention)". In Dutch they call it by the original name "Sclaverand" some of the time.
>
> Otherwise everyone seems to have accepted the Zephal name of Presta (or presta in American).
>

With some notable exceptions (Michelin) nearly all inner
tube manufacturers mark the shipping cases AV or FV.

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Andrew Muzi
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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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