Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
Having used track pumps before that weren't in very good nick I had written them off choosing to stick to hand held pumps. They may be more work but I found them more reliable. Pah. I've recently had the opportunity to use a decent one and was well impressed. So much so that I've bought one and pumped up every tyre I could find.
My day to day bike has tyres rated for 60 to 80 psi. I had pumped them up with the hand pump and they seemed pretty darned hard so I thought that they must be up to the 80 mk at least. When I put on the track pump dodad it showed they were only up to 60 so god knows how hard you have to go at it with a conventional pump to get up to 80. I did them up to 80 with the track pump and they are well hard. I must have been riding on under inflated tyres for ages.
The track pump claims to be rated for a maximum of 160 psi. I've never seen a bike tyre that was rated this high, The highest I've seen have been about 110 psi which, now seems like a hell of a lot. Even with the track pump getting up to 80 was beginning to feel quite hard.
There's no real point to this other than to share with you all my moment of revalation and disbelief that I must have been running my tyres under pressured for ages.
Also why does this forum thingumy inform me that I am spelling "tyre" incorrectly?
My day to day bike has tyres rated for 60 to 80 psi. I had pumped them up with the hand pump and they seemed pretty darned hard so I thought that they must be up to the 80 mk at least. When I put on the track pump dodad it showed they were only up to 60 so god knows how hard you have to go at it with a conventional pump to get up to 80. I did them up to 80 with the track pump and they are well hard. I must have been riding on under inflated tyres for ages.
The track pump claims to be rated for a maximum of 160 psi. I've never seen a bike tyre that was rated this high, The highest I've seen have been about 110 psi which, now seems like a hell of a lot. Even with the track pump getting up to 80 was beginning to feel quite hard.
There's no real point to this other than to share with you all my moment of revalation and disbelief that I must have been running my tyres under pressured for ages.
Also why does this forum thingumy inform me that I am spelling "tyre" incorrectly?