I got an email from clikvalve that they had been essentially DDOS’ed by Seth from Berm Peak:
I wanted to send you a personal note to say thank you, and to apologize.
Over the past couple of days, we experienced an extraordinary surge in orders, driven mostly by a recent video from Seth of Berm Peak. We are incredibly grateful to have Seth join Clik as an owner. He brings far more than visibility. He will also help us bring new products to market with the kind of thoughtful scrutiny and real world testing that only someone as thorough and detail oriented as Seth can provide.
That said, we seriously underestimated the response his video would generate. In a very short window, we received far more orders than we had ever handled before and sold through nearly all of our inventory.
Is there anyone making a shop inflator - basically one that attaches to a compressor line - that is ready made for Clik valves without having to use an adaptor?
I have three inflator heads - one EVT presta, one generic presta and one generic schrader - and none of them will accept the Clik adaptor head that came with the two Clik valves I just bought.
The numbers that John quoted in that email made me very sympathetic - I hope this sets them up for life, rather than breaking their business!
I was quite impressed how much information he provided…
“To give some context, our typical daily order volume is around 30 to 50 orders. So when more than 1,100 orders came in within a single day, we simply did not have a real reference point for what was about to hit us.“
I got another email from Clik today apologising for the delay and saying they have posted me one of their long-awaited first batch / prototype presta pump - clik adapters to try. I hope it proves to be the solution for all our presta pumps.
Hopefully it won’t take USPS a month to deliver it to Aus, like my Ornot parcel last year.
Little did they know that they needed more staff and 20 times as many valves back at the office / warehouse to meet the rush of orders that was coming!
Hey all. Serious apologies if this is a RTFM question.
My one hang up with switching to Clik is whether in extremis I could use a presta pump without a clik adapter - let’s say you’re at a race and forget your own pump and have to borrow? I imagine it means not being able to read the pressure?
this feels like the perfect solution to the frustrations of using a crack pipe with disc wheels that always blow off the valve at higher pressures…
and actually on second thoughts -is there a convenient screw-on adapter head for Silca and muc off and cyclops style electric inflators? Now that feels a basic question, I’m sorry…
Yes you can use any presta pump that has a rubber seal and reasonable depth for the valve.
I believe I’ve already mentioned that our large diameter 100cc OneUp mtb presta hand pump was too hard to pump when using it with clik valves so that’s why I want the presta pump - clik valve adapter.
Screw-on pumps like Leyzine won’t work.
I don’t have any of the other brands you mention so I can’t comment on them, but there are Schrader adapters - and presta adapters are coming real soon - my test sample is in the post.
Father up in the chat @Kent_Voss posted about swapping the threaded rings on the Silca and Cycplus inflators and I did the same.
This allows for running a Clik pump head directly attached to a Cycplus AS2 Ultra.
I have the Cycplus threaded ring and mini hose on an Elettrico Ultimate, which works great and if I could order one, I’d probably have the Silca threaded ring on both pumps.
Fumpa have a good selection of clik valve adapters for their pumps. Another reason I am happy to stick with the Aussie brand who created the market segment.
My original plan was to go with fumpa, but they shut down their Canadian site and at the time, only a couple of pumps and no accessories, were available through local shops.
It looks like you can now order direct from fumpa, however, there are no taxes/duties collected at checkout, which is unfortunate.
The prototype presta pump - clik valve adapters arrived - they are great!
I’m quite intrigued as to why they took so long to make these, because they are the #1 thing I’d want when replacing presta valves with clik valves, but I can only assume it was challenging to make the small diameter presta end consistently and reliably strong enough.
There are 2 versions - one with the smaller diameter thread that screw-on pumps like Lezyne use, and one larger diameter for push-on pumps, like our OneUp MTB pump.
I am happy - I have everything I need for clik valves on all our bikes and pumps.
Hopefully they will be released to the market soon.
This is grea, I’ve been hoping for something like this since i swapped my road bikes a few months ago. Will soon be able to swap my gravel and mtb over and finally convert my floor pump
Today’s ride result, got a puncture on a sidewall and I was hoping to rely on sealant and numerous pump strokes to get home. The OneUp 100cc ended by removing the head of the click valve, the head now stuck in the pump head and the core valve impossible to remove from the body. Just ordered a Wolf Tooth one for new time.
