Wolf Tooth Components goes all-in with Schwalbe’s quick-connect Clik Valve standard, adding new EnCase Pumps and colorful Tubeless Valves already set up for the new, faster & easier way to air up your tires. When Schwalbe sprung the easy-to-use, easy-to-convert Clik Valve concept on us last summer, we wondered if it would gain industry traction, and whether consumers would ditch their fiddly Presta valves for another new standard. It was already easy, but now, Wolf Tooth is making it even easier to make the switch to Clik Valve.
Why Clik Valve in the first place?
The beauty of Clik Valve is how easy it is to use. Just snap the valve cap off, click a pump onto the valve, pump away, and snap the pump head off when you are done. No more tightening or loosening the tiny nut of the end of a Presta valve, and certainly never again bending (or breaking) that fragile valve core when furiously pumping a tire back up on the side of the road or trail.
But the real secret to Clik Valve, though, is its backward compatibility. You can easily upgrade any Presta valve with a removable core, and you can still pump up a new Clik Valve equipped tire with almost any conventional Presta-ready pump.
Plus, Schwalbe claims a 50% increase in airflow with their Hi-Flow Clik Valves compared to standard Presta cores.
Wolf Tooth Clik Valves on EnCase Pumps & Tubeless Valves
The Wolf Tooth EnCase Pump is now the industry’s first mini-pump to be compatible with Clik Valve. Sure, you could attach Schwalbe’s own plastic converter head to your existing mini-pump (which I did), but that just makes it stick out an extra 2.5cm, likely ruining its compact portability.
Instead, WTC committed to Clik Valve by making a new set of the special pump head internals to click your valve into place, all while keeping the low profile of the original EnCase pump.
The new EnCase Pump for Clik Valve is available in the same 3 sizes as the original EnCase minipumps and for the exact same price. The ultra compact 30cc x 120mm long and the slightly larger 40cc x 141mm long pumps sell for $65. And the biggest 85cc x 244mm long pump sells for $70.
Inside, you can still hide your other EnCase repair tools, just like the original Presta/Shrader EnCase pumps that launched last summer.
Wolf Tooth Tubeless Valve Stem Kits for Clik Valve are even simpler. For $37 you get to pick either 44mm long or 60mm long alloy tubeless valves in your favorite of 9 anodized colors, and Wolf Tooth with send them to you with Clik Valve cores already installed. Technically, it’s the first chance to buy tubeless Clik Valves in colors other than black, if you didn’t just buy valves and Clik cores separately.
But the WTC Tubeless Clik Valves are the first to get proper matching-color anodized alloy valve caps, rather than Schwalbe’s plastic snap covers. The Wolf Tooth Clik Valve Caps also double as the Clik Valve core removal tool.
Plenty More Wolf Tooth Clik Valve options, as well!
Wolf Tooth also now sells the Schwalbe Clik Valve conversion kit, too. Because once you go Clik Valve on one bike, you really are going to want to do it on all your bikes. A pair of Schwalbe Hi-Flow Clik Valve Cores will set you back $12 per pair to convert one wheelset.
And of course, you’ll want to convert your floor pump tool. Wolf Tooth has a nice CNC-machined alloy Clik Valve head for $14 that simply attaches to the Schrader side of your existing pump or even a mini-inflator. Plus, if you already have one of their EnCase mini-pumps and want to convert it over to Clik Valve yourself, a $15 kit from WTC will give you the new guts to make that work in a tidy setup.
All the new Wolf Tooth Clik Valve goodies are available now (as are Clik Valve floor pumps from Lezyne).
So maybe now is the time to make the switch!
