Love my Clik Adapter!!! Easy to use for any of my pumps so one stays on my floor pump and the other travels with my gear.
Converted all my bikes - road, gravel and mountain. Click the pump on, inflate, pull it off. No lever, no fussing, no pump head flying across the garage. Seats tubeless tires with a floor pump, no compressor needed. Solid aluminum, well thought out, works exactly as advertised. Clik Valves are just better.
I have gone through thousands of tubes and every type of valve known to man over the years. I decided to try these out to see if they were the game changer that everyone claims they are. My opinion is that the positive lock on to the pump adaptor does actually make these very simple to use and far less fiddly than presta and depending on your pump, schrader too. They seem to work well and more or less do what they say they do. Do I think they flow more air or resists clogging or are less prone to damage than presta valves? Debatable. Are they viable as a replacement to the much more fiddly presta valve as an industry standard? This is a nuanced question based on what the industry is using as it's standard. If I could just go to a store and buy a tube in schrader/presta/clik in whatever size I needed and pumps came with click ready headss instead of needing adaptors or head replacements, and all for those clik parts were not fetching a hefty premium for the privilege of choosing them over the other types, I would say it's worth it, but only on the basis of ease of use. as it is now, it's a niche product. I recently took a bike with clik valves into a small town LBS to see if they could air up my tire for me, and they didn't have an adaptor to do it. I didn't actually need to do that, I was just seeing how common these things are outside of bigger shops. So it's something to consider if you don't do your own wrenching or carry your own tools or pump adaptor with you. I also think the plastic caps are bulkier than they need to be and the fancy aluminum ones are just ridiculously oversized. Wolf Tooth maks a much more svelte version of the caps, but to my knowledge, you can only get them with a set of clik equipped tubeless valves. Another issue is compatibility to to retrofit the valves into presta tubes. A lot of OEM tubes that come in bikes are made by Chen Shin and type do not have removable cores. So be ready to buy new tube just to be able to retrofit your click valves, unless you already have a premium brand tube that has removable cores. This leads me into the cost. depending on what tube or system you are running the click cores add a significant cost to what you currently have just to retrofit. Like all other valves on the market, they are not magical and the seals are not indestructible. They will wear out and or clog, eventually. As mentioned earlier, if they were an actual industry standard, it wouldn't be a big deal, valves/tubes are consumables after all. But when you are paying almost as much for your nifty valve core as you are for the tube or stem it's going in that worked just fine without it, it makes you wonder what the point is.
To be clear, I actually really like the Clik Valve, but until it becomes commonplace in the bike world like Presta and Schrader, it's adoption and implantation on your own bikes needs to be looked at with a certain degree of the reality that these are likely going to be sort of an odd duck exclusive to a handful of bikes. As such, you need to carry an adaptor on you always. I would like nothing better than to see them succeed, But I live in a world where even the 100yr old Presta valve is just starting to be made readily available in stores other than the LBS. Until CliK can get a contract with most of the major tube manufacturers to become, at the very least, an optional valve for their off the shelf tubes at the same price points, these will remain something only a select few bike nerds will have on their bikes. And THAT is a shame.
Best tire valve I've ever used in nearly 16 years of mountain biking.