Milkit tubeless valve and refill kit review

Milkit provides an easy solution to tubeless maintenance, although at a price

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Cycling Weekly Verdict

If you’re committed to road tubeless, although it’s an expensive purchase, the Milkit tubeless valve kit lets you set up and maintain your tyres with ease. It would be particularly useful if you regularly swap tyres on your wheels, but the peace of mind that you’ve got enough sealant in the tyre is of benefit to the general rider too.

Reasons to buy
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    Adds easy maintenance to tubeless set-ups

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    Avoids mess

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Reasons to avoid
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    Expensive

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    Need to be careful to lower tyre pressure when using

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The Milkit tubeless valve and refill kit helps you maintain your tubeless tyres without needing to pop a bead. It makes topping up sealant levels much less messy.

Tubeless tech is becoming more and more widely available for road bikes, with many wheelsets now tubeless ready. There’s an increasing range of tyre options too, with Conti being the latest to offer a tubeless tyre.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.