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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:19 am
by VermilionX
sapaul wrote:Running your tyres at too low a psi will do two things. 1: the tyres will get hot very quickly and will wear excessivly. Secondly, your sidewall will not support the profile of the tyre and may slip on leans. Did you not just fall over on a lean? The correct psi will dissapate the heat correctly, maintain your wear pattern and your side wall will remain the correct shape. Most bike tyres have steel bands that run inside the rubber, without the assistance of the air pressure, they cannot function properly. Track stuff, you let a little out of the tyre, long distance running you add a little.
thanks for the tip.
now i understand what they said about tires performing better at the correct psi.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:12 am
by JCS
Also , always check your tire pressure when the tire is cold. Not after a long ride.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:19 am
by VermilionX
JCS wrote:Also , always check your tire pressure when the tire is cold. Not after a long ride.
thanks for that.
i should be checking it before i go out but now i know that it won't accurate if i check it later.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:01 am
by roscowgo
heh i think verm just learned the, Always check your tires lesson.
and nope. to my finger i cant tell a difference between 10 and 30 psi in my tires. Thats why you get a guage. so you dont have to have one of those slidey things surgically implanted..er. somewhere.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:26 am
by VermilionX
yep, i just went back to the gas station.
set the front to 36 psi.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:37 pm
by Seetrout
So.... Can you feel the difference riding it?
Comparatively, did it feel like you were driving in wet cement with no air in the front?
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:52 pm
by VermilionX
Seetrout wrote:So.... Can you feel the difference riding it?
Comparatively, did it feel like you were driving in wet cement with no air in the front?
not so much. but maybe bec im only riding streets, not much cornering except at some on/off ramps to freeways.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:22 pm
by jmillheiser
I can tell if my front tire is running low, the front end feels very wallowy and squirrley. At the correct psi the squirrleyness goes away
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:39 pm
by flynrider
Yep. That's one of the things most riders learn soon after starting. When I noticed that my performance around low speed corners was getting downright ugly, I was baffled. Then I put the proper amount of pressure back in the tires and it was like riding a different bike.
Most of the time one of my noob friends complains about having trouble going around slow corners, inflating the tires immediately solves the problem. Bias ply tires tend to exhibit low pressure squirreliness a lot more than radials.