Tire pressure

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Tire pressure

Post by Sanoj » Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:02 pm

I`ve tried to search the forum but didn`t find any answers so here goes...

What should the tire pressure be when I have 120/60 front and 180/55 back?


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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Killerwhale » Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:10 pm

Sanoj wrote:I`ve tried to search the forum but didn`t find any answers so here goes...

What should the tire pressure be when I have 120/60 front and 180/55 back?


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Manufacturers website usually have the pressure posted....

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Kayla » Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:36 am

Killerwhale wrote:
Sanoj wrote:I`ve tried to search the forum but didn`t find any answers so here goes...

What should the tire pressure be when I have 120/60 front and 180/55 back?


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Manufacturers website usually have the pressure posted....
... to use as a guide to find what you're comfortable with :D

I use 32 in the front and 34 in the back on my TRX, but that's on standard tyre sizes and is psi, not bar ;)
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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Sanoj » Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:38 pm

and is psi, not bar
Ooohh noo, to late to say that now... :shock:

I found what I was looking for but not on Michelins webpage.

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by arrivisto » Sun May 30, 2010 5:07 pm

Kayla wrote:I use 32 in the front and 34 in the back on my TRX
The book says 35psi front, 40 rear. That suits me (15 stone), otherwise you can feel the rear tyre start to squirm.

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by ekoja » Mon May 31, 2010 2:05 am

I run 32 front 35 rear standard size Metzler tyres.
I think your weight would have some influence on what pressures you run. (not that I would have any idea what you weigh but, you git wot I mean)

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Tarwetijger » Mon May 31, 2010 8:08 am

I always wondered who would use that weird psi scale. But of course, people from the UK... I should have known better. :wink:

I run front 2,4 and back 2,6 bar (120/70 & 180/55).

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Kayla » Mon May 31, 2010 10:42 am

arrivisto wrote:
Kayla wrote:I use 32 in the front and 34 in the back on my TRX
The book says 35psi front, 40 rear. That suits me (15 stone), otherwise you can feel the rear tyre start to squirm.
Stuff the book :lol: Use it as a guide and make your own choices, but I'm only 10 stone* ;)

* about 64kg for the European types out there :D
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Re: Tire pressure

Post by arrivisto » Mon May 31, 2010 4:03 pm

Tarwetijger wrote:I always wondered who would use that weird psi scale. But of course, people from the UK... I should have known better. :wink:
It's good old Imperial measurements that let me know what a pint is when I order it, not some namby-pamby 33cl girls' size! Anyway, the "bar" isn't a proper SI unit; and millibars ought to be known as hectopascals!

Nevertheless I agree; it's disgraceful that we in the UK aren't fully metricated yet, since UK school kids think (if at all!) in metres, not yards, let alone rods, poles, perches, chains and furlongs.

But it would be quite nice if one's imperial tachometer measured fractions of a mile in eighths, as each eighth of a mile is a furlong!

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by slow codger » Mon May 31, 2010 7:51 pm

:twisted: I like imperial measurements! I can catch perch with my pole or rod depending on what I decide to use, however I put them back not like our eastern european friends who eat them!
Furlongs are horse racing lengths, you going to take your rex over Aintree then?

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by ekoja » Mon May 31, 2010 10:48 pm

I recall hearing from somewhere or other that the metric system was in fact a Napoleonic trick to confuse those pesky poms.
Is that right or just a urban myth.

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Post by cobbadiggabuddyblooo » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:59 am

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by ekoja » Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:57 am

cobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote::? Is that kieth Urban the country singer
No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythuss

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by Kayla » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:17 am

ekoja wrote:
cobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote::? Is that kieth Urban the country singer
No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythuss
Badoom, tish!

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Re: Tire pressure

Post by ekoja » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:42 am

Kayla wrote:
ekoja wrote:
cobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote::? Is that kieth Urban the country singer
No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythuss
Badoom, tish!

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