Screw in rear tyre - day before Bikeoi. Typical.

**kwaka_crasher** · 17th November 2009, 01:35

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Square-headed screw is a Reynolds. Canadian design.

Robertson.

Edit: Nevermind. That'll teach me not to read the whole thread.

**YellowDog** · 17th November 2009, 05:00

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Don't listen to him. For some reason a large swathe of greasy herberts out there think that they know better than the research boffins at tyre companies, plus they think it's cool to wear a tyre out in 5 minutes. Something you're guaranteed to do if you run a tyre under-inflated in relation to your riding style.

Play with your tyre pressures by all means but take careful note of what it means to how the bike feels and how the tyre wears. There's a bunch of sites out there that will help you "read" tyre wear. Remember that changing one thing can make a whole pile of other things feel "wrong", so you may have to change front tyre pressures to match, suspension settings, how you use your right wrist and so on.

Agree.

Yes the manaual says 42psi for the rear, but that was written by the lawyers.

Ater lots of trial and error, 38 does it for me and upto 42 with a pillion.

**RantyDave** · 17th November 2009, 07:15

Motorad say no.

**RantyDave** · 17th November 2009, 07:18

Boyle's say "maybe".

**pritch** · 17th November 2009, 09:43

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Don't listen to him. For some reason a large swathe of greasy herberts out there think that they know better than the research boffins at tyre companies,

Bling sent.

The tyre companies love these Herberts though. They, the Herberts, keep buying new tyres, not because they're hard chargers, but because they habitually ride on underinflated tyres.

**vifferman** · 17th November 2009, 10:07

Originally Posted by pritch

Bling sent.

The tyre companies love these Herberts though. They, the Herberts, keep buying new tyres, not because they're hard chargers, but because they habitually ride on underinflated tyres.

You and Dr Deuce are talking crap!

Everyone knows that if it's good enough for the RacerDudez(TM) then it's good enough for us MereMortals(TM). Low tyre pressures for the win!