Tire pressure
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Tire pressure
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?
BR Jonas
What should the tire pressure be when I have 120/60 front and 180/55 back?
BR Jonas
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Re: Tire pressure
Manufacturers website usually have the pressure posted....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?
BR Jonas
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... to use as a guide to find what you're comfortable withKillerwhale wrote:Manufacturers website usually have the pressure posted....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?
BR Jonas
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
Ooohh noo, to late to say that now...and is psi, not bar
I found what I was looking for but not on Michelins webpage.
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Re: Tire pressure
The book says 35psi front, 40 rear. That suits me (15 stone), otherwise you can feel the rear tyre start to squirm.Kayla wrote:I use 32 in the front and 34 in the back on my TRX
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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)
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
I always wondered who would use that weird psi scale. But of course, people from the UK... I should have known better.
I run front 2,4 and back 2,6 bar (120/70 & 180/55).
I run front 2,4 and back 2,6 bar (120/70 & 180/55).
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Stuff the book Use it as a guide and make your own choices, but I'm only 10 stone*arrivisto wrote:The book says 35psi front, 40 rear. That suits me (15 stone), otherwise you can feel the rear tyre start to squirm.Kayla wrote:I use 32 in the front and 34 in the back on my TRX
* about 64kg for the European types out there
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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!Tarwetijger wrote:I always wondered who would use that weird psi scale. But of course, people from the UK... I should have known better.
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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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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Furlongs are horse racing lengths, you going to take your rex over Aintree then?
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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.
Is that right or just a urban myth.
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No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythusscobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote: Is that kieth Urban the country singer
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Badoom, tish!ekoja wrote:No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythusscobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote: Is that kieth Urban the country singer
I'll get your coat...
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Kayla wrote:Badoom, tish!ekoja wrote:No thats Nicole, she is the urban mythusscobbadiggabuddyblooo wrote: Is that kieth Urban the country singer
I'll get your coat...