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Bought from www.myvalvecaps.com. Wife thinks I've finally lost it!

Seen these before they look ok, mind you I used to drill out dice and put them on my valves on my BMX back in the day

I think it's really clever the way the logo stays the right way up all the time like the Bentley centre caps.

I like them, unfortunately here in Aberdeenshire the kids have a habit of looking for these and stealing them to put on their bikes!! It would really p1ss me off but i did the same back in the day!!

The valves are actually easily corroded & quite brittle. For this reason most ppl use plastic covers, that way there's no chance of them siezing.

Gets worse when the crap weather sets in. Food for thought.

They will corrode onto your valve stems and <beep> them up..fact!

I speak from experience!!!

As said more so now the roads are salted.

OEM alligators are the way forward... I just bought a big bag of them for peanuts!

+3! Use plastic ones, unless you frequently keep moving them. You end up not being able to take the cap off.. Force it too much the valve snaps off leaving you unable to inflate the tire. Wheel off, upto tire fitter to change out valve and re-inflate. I used a dremmel tool to grind the last one of mine off, managed to save the valve I'm 100% plastic again.

Use petroleum jelly to stop the corrosion.

as others said, corrosion is an issue
even more so with the TPS system
make sure you keep some grease or dielectric on the threads