Check yer ferkin tyre pressures

[Stickchick]

Beats me how people fail to notice. I've always found that 2psi out is very noticeable.

Then again, maybe some riders are just used to low pressures?

Have you checked the tyres on the EL lately? Have ya huh huh huh?

[Movistar]

I check tyre pressure every ride, especially if it's been a while.
I now have three guages and I'm not happy with any of them.
Anyone know where I can get an angled analogue gauge.

I got myself a 'USA Specialty Products' analogue gauge, funnily enough from USA Specialty Products here in town. Was around $80, oil filled etc with a nice braided line, fancy chrome (well I didn't want to pay $80 for a plastic bastard!).

Checked it against another $140 gauge and readings were the same so I assume it's accurate...

Check mine everytime without fail, fire up the compressor if I need to an blow a bit of air in to keep 'em right.

Of course you can always go to your local Firestone Dealer get them filled with nitrogen and get some beautiful looking green tyre valve caps...

[pritch]

Checked it against another $140 gauge and readings were the same so I assume it's accurate...

Firestone etc are supposed to have calibrated gauges, as should shops that work with race bikes. My plastic fantastic checked out right on.

In the m/c mags the tyre experts say most bikes have under-inflated tyres.
Some because the owners are just slack, others because the owner imagines a performance advantage.

The tyre manufacturers are well aware of this but they aren't going to say too much because these guys (and gals) are cutting out tyres waaay faster than they need to... More money for Michelin, Metzeler, Avon, and all.

[Gremlin]

Pilot Road 2's are notorious for this... They will lose around 3 psi a week

The last few days, I could have sworn blind that something was wrong with the front, as it lost 4 psi each day, 2 days in a row. Then the next, it was holding fine... not getting these damn tyres again. Fantastic for everything but the most important thing... holding air

[jrandom]

Pilot Road 2's are notorious for this... They will lose around 3 psi a week

I just put 13,000km on a pair of PR2s, and I could count the number of times I had to top up the pressure on the fingers of one hand.

I believe the experiences of other PR2 users would tend toward the same.

The last few days, I could have sworn blind that something was wrong with the front, as it lost 4 psi each day, 2 days in a row. Then the next, it was holding fine... not getting these damn tyres again.

You're quite sure your rims are true?

[Skyryder]

I know full well this is an old chestnut. Pretty darn boring for most of ya.
But Please go check your bike tyre pressures.
Over the past few weeks I've been doing sneaky checks on bike tyre pressures from visitors to my car yard. All bar one had low pressure in at least one of their tyres.
Some were stupid low.
One was actually a rental bike from a reputable south Auckland bike shop.
Humour an old bugger would ya?

Good call..................was going to go for a we 'squirt' today over to Akaroa checked tyres etc put in liners both trou and jacket and it starts to rain. Bugger. Oh well them's the breaks.............so it off to the groceries.


Skyryder

[quallman1234]

it its a little bike you might be OK with the stuff they use to make non tubeless MTB tyres into tubeless tyres. I wouldnt use it on your R1 though!

http://www.notubes.com/

It held pressure no doubt, but simply because it was not a tubeless rim it would slowly leak over time. A sealent like that would probabaly work, i prefer tube's anyways!

[HenryDorsetCase]

I check tyre pressure every ride, especially if it's been a while.
I now have three guages and I'm not happy with any of them.
Anyone know where I can get an angled analogue gauge.

Mine is labelled Accu Gauge (with a name like that it MUST be accurate, right): got it from the tool merchants in town, about $40? ten years ago though.

I still have the very first accu gauge I bought which is >25 years old. I only upgraded because modern bikes with big discs and 17in wheels just about mandate somthing with a flexi hose attachment.

I use a Blackburn track pump to put air in, (I am a cyclist too, so Ive had it a while) but the gauge is not accurate.

[Kickaha]

Firestone etc are supposed to have calibrated gauges, as should shops that work with race bikes. My plastic fantastic checked out right on.

In my experience very few tyres shops go to the expense of having their gauges calibrated, we get it done yearly and it costs about $400 to have 5 gauges done

Re tyre pressures, just going off what it says on the wall of the tyre is not the correct way of doing it, the pressures quoted there are generally for maximum load the tyre can carry

[Skyryder]

I like them a bit softer in winter. About two clicks down.


Skyryder

[Gremlin]

I just put 13,000km on a pair of PR2s, and I could count the number of times I had to top up the pressure on the fingers of one hand.

I believe the experiences of other PR2 users would tend toward the same.

You're quite sure your rims are true?

Dang weird then mate... Zapf's other bike, a blackbird, when it had roads had the exact same issue... you either ride it or not, and the damn things still go down.

Re rims, I don't have any cause for concern, haven't had a buckled rim, so wouldn't know what to look for exactly, but I don't feel anything odd (other than when the pressures kept dropping) and I ride the bike a lot (as in, 6 days a week, and work involves riding around greater auckland whenever needed)

[TimeOut]

I just put 13,000km on a pair of PR2s, and I could count the number of times I had to top up the pressure on the fingers of one hand.

I believe the experiences of other PR2 users would tend toward the same.

PR front PR2 back 7000km only topped up twice less than 2 psi down

[PrincessBandit]

Very good point. We did check all 3 of our bikes just yesterday and the results were worthy of a . Balu bought a pressure gauge and off we tootled to the nearest BP to remedy the situation. Will make sure it's part of the regular check in future!

[marioc]

Thanks for the heads up,mine were way out

[nico]

might sound stupit but what are the presures we should be looking for?? in our tryes