You are thinking in American Michael, it originated in France so like all cultural matters you'd need to look at it from a French perspective !
I ran across a forum where someone wrote Zefal about it and their reply was : https://nycc.org/node/33518 Zefal sez... > > """We have no precise file concerning that. It is between 1880 et 1890. > Sorry. In case you need more precise information, it would take us a lot of > time."" > " > On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 1:50:38 PM UTC-4, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > Almost 40 years ago I bought my first set of wheels with something called > "Presta Valves." I always assumed that it was Italian for press the pump > onto the stem, but now realize that might not be true. In the last two > years I have replaced both my floor pump and a mini pump. Both of these > don't allow me to presta dem on; now I have to screwda dem on. OK, so the > little thingamabob gets pressed down to open the valve, but still I think > they should now be called screweda valves. > > Michael > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
