E*THIRTEEN QUICK FILL PLASMA VALVE 25.16

You can be as careful as you like, meticulous in your preparation and exact in your execution, but sometimes it still ends up looking like an explosion in a yoghurt factory. Assuming they make yoghurt in factories and under high pressure. I’m talking, of course, about setting your tyres up tubeless, something that’s brought a great deal of benefit to riding, and an equal amount of mess too.

The new Quick Fill Plasma Valve from e*thirteen hopes to keep things cleaner because you can seat the tyre completely, before injecting the sealant straight from the bottle. You don’t need a special tool for this either, e*thirteen says, and you can top it up anywhere without breaking the bead. No more slopping cup fulls of goo into a gaping tyre, only to splash half of it on the floor as you try and mount a tricky bead.

The stem is also oversized, something that leads to easier inflation of the tyre thanks to the bigger volume of air flowing in. This is something most of us have experienced with regular valves – remove the core and you can often seat a stubborn tyre with the extra volume and flow of air. On top of that, the stem is made from two pieces so you can remove the top half in situ to clean it out if it gets gunked up, leaving the base in place and all without removing the tyre. There are five colours to choose from, two lengths, and the whole thing is made from CNC machined alloy. ethirteen.com