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Old 15-01-2018, 07:35 PM   #1
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Check your tyre pressures!

Not been out on the bike for god knows how long, being a fair weather tart . Anyway, popped out today .

Got to the end of the road and thought the bike felt odd, guessed it was just me being rusty . First mini rounabout felt worse! . Went straight back home, bike made a thud as it went up the dropped kerb onto the drive .

Checked the tyre pressures, front was 22 and rear was 23! . That will be the problem then!!. checked my other bike and that was almost identical, both wheels at 26.

So folks if your bike has been laid up for a while, check your tyre pressures before going out for the first time!.
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Old 15-01-2018, 08:10 PM   #2
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Allo allo allo. That's two endorsments for you then Sonny Jim!!..

I check mine nearly every ride on a bike and every week on my car.

A slow puncture in the rear caught me out once, till I worked out why I couldn't get round corners. Even a couple of psi makes a difference.
I run 32psi in the front of my Monster and 36 rear.
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Old 15-01-2018, 10:24 PM   #3
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What pressure guage do you use and how do you know it's correct? Only ask as I have 2 gauges and they both read differently by about 4 psi.
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Old 15-01-2018, 10:56 PM   #4
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What pressure guage do you use and how do you know it's correct? Only ask as I have 2 gauges and they both read differently by about 4 psi.
Personally, I would settle in to using one of the gauges, then set up your tyre pressures to suit yourself.
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Old 15-01-2018, 11:13 PM   #5
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I use one of these for both my road and race bike- totally accurate and easy to read.

Available online only through Halfords and Opie's websites or search Race X RX0014 on eBay or Google.

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-too...th-case-rx0014

https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-92039-r...-car-bike.aspx
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Old 16-01-2018, 12:05 PM   #6
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.....So folks if your bike has been laid up for a while, check your tyre pressures before going out for the first time!.
An advantage of having a nicely stiffened up pair of tyres left over from the previous millennium, if not antediluvian, is that they don't feel any different at any positive pressure. I haven't tried negative pressures though?
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Old 17-01-2018, 09:20 PM   #7
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Thanks for the heads up on the guage, not too sure I will have enough room on the front wheel between the discs and rim?
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Old 18-01-2018, 01:26 PM   #8
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I've been having tyre issues of late. I put Metzler Roadtec -01's on the bike and they came at 44 and 38. I've been playing around with them, but just can't seem to get a stable setting, espeically in the wet. Perhaps it's the touring profile that makes it feel like it is dropping in to the corner?

Maybe it's the temperature and they just don't work well under 3/4 degrees?

But I just can't seem to get them stable.
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Old 18-01-2018, 04:17 PM   #9
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Isn’t it the number one rule of preparing for the ride that you check the tyre pressures and the oil level in the site glass I know it’s mine...
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Old 23-01-2018, 06:54 PM   #10
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Remember to do the POWDER check each time;
P = Petrol
O = Oil
W = Water (Not all of us)
D = Damage
E = Electrics
R = Rubber

Easy to remember and do.
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Old 24-01-2018, 10:12 AM   #11
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I still use an old fashioned "pencil" pressure gauge.
Never seen the point of a fancy bit of kit as the pencil gauges are easily accurate to half a psi.
The other advantage is that they are also cheap enough that I can own two, and periodically check them against each other,
And finally, they're compact and easy to carry.
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Old 25-01-2018, 12:25 PM   #12
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Remember to do the POWDER check each time;
P = Petrol
O = Oil
W = Water (Not all of us)
D = Damage
E = Electrics
R = Rubber

Easy to remember and do.
My check for Water is: if it's falling from the sky - abort!

But it's some time since I felt the need to carry a Rubber.
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