BalkanExpress
Guru
- Location
- Brussels
Ha...I was of the same mindset back in the day, running 18mm's tyres and they of course had to be pumped up to at least 120psi !!
Learnt my lesson when i found a small patch of diesel at a bus stop and ended up with broken collarbone and stitches to head wound
Changed back to massive 23mm's after that!
Some 30 years later i'm running 32's on my Racelight T... with psi down to about 80
I was in a branch of Decathlon a couple of weeks back, the assistant could not understand why I needed a track pump that could reach more than 10 bar. I explained that I really only needed around 120-130 psi as it was for an old road bike, but, I I didn't want to have to kill myself getting to it. He started to edge away as if I was mad and said "No tyre needs that much pressure" as he made good his escape.
