How long do your tyres maintain pressure for ??

[bigjim]

Funny thing is, I've bought bikes that have been stood for 20 yrars and the original Michelin tyres are still holding good pressure.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

On the bikes I top up about once a month, similar on the car but the front offside looses pressure more quickly than the other three.

 

[Bodhbh]

The rate of loss will be a function of pressure, so a low volume high pressure road bike tyre will lose pressure more quickly than a high volume low pressure MTB tyre.

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I generally check all bikes once a week. The MTBs don't tend to need a top up. A Roadrat with 35mm Marathon Racers is the closest thing I've got to a roadbike and tends loose about 20psi over the week (85psi >> 60-70psi). The R20 folder looses air quite quick too, nearly as fast.

 

[Tin Pot]

Me too
Commuter loses about 10 psi over a week.

Same here.

110 psi, top up ten before a ride.

 

[Ian193]

Top up before every ride sorted

 

[gbb]

No tyre guage for me, just a thumb pressed into the tyre tells me everything I need to know pre ride..I dont tend to top up tyres for weeks on end, road or hybrid.

 

[xxDarkRiderxx]

I tend to top up every ride for the bikes I use occasionally. My commuting bike every few weeks or so. 100 psi always.

 

[HLaB]

I'm not too particular. Usual pump the presta tyres to around 100 and forget about them for a while. With the tt bike however, I'm slightly more particular about topping up the tyres the night before a tt.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Tourer has lower pressure and 37mm tires, and seems to need topping up every week or so. The Austro-Daimler, on 23 mm clinchers, needs topping up before each ride, as I'm big, and don't wish any snakebite p%$#tures while riding.

 

[slowmotion]

I generally CBA but it's usually about 2-3 weeks.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I check my tyre pressure before every ride. I don't like or trust below 90 psi on 23 or 25mm tyres.

 

[Muttley]

Every ride I pump em to 110 but,mine prop loose about 15 psi in a week!

 

[Keith Oates]

I also pump up my tyres about once a week unless the daily pressure test with the thumb suggests otherwise. That's on the CX commuter, with the narrower road bike tyres I generally top up every other day just to be sure of the pressure at the start of the ride.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[nickyboy]

The rate of loss will be a function of pressure, so a low volume high pressure road bike tyre will lose pressure more quickly than a high volume low pressure MTB tyre.

It will, and I guess that the relationship is not linear. That is, the rate of pressure loss at 4 atmospheres is more than double that at 2 atmospheres. So 110psi pressure will reduce to 100psi much more quickly than 50psi reduces to 40psi

 

[Elybazza61]

Weekly for the Planet X(32 randonneurs),every couple of days for the Icarus(23 durano plus) if I'm riding it regularly and every ride on the Helium(25 Open Paves with latex tubes);the latex tubes do go down within a few hours of finishing a ride but it's worth it for the supple ride.