--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "revmaaatin" wrote:
>
> --- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Saline wrote:
> >Snipage--
>
> > Top of the list is a digital tire
> > pressure gauge. As a side note... last week I took two evening
> classes
> > by AC Delco. At the end of the second class I was hanging around
to
> > discuss a point with the instructor. The area manager gave me a
> new tire
> > gauge. I got it back to the shop and was going to test it for
> accuracy.
> > It didn't work. I don't mean it wasn't accurate I mean even 36
psi
> > wouldn't get the calibrated rod to slide out of the gauge. I
threw
> it
> > out immediately and thought how lucky I was to have digital
guages
> that
> > are accurate and reliable.
> >
>
> more snippage
>
> >
> > Jeff Saline
>
Hate to say this, but I got to print a correction: it made sense
when I typed it the first time...
It's late, and I should be in bed...
I got the pressures backwards here--His gauge read 32 on his bike and
22 psi on my bike--with target pressure of 32psi. My gauge read 32
on my bike, and 42 on his bike. The net effect: John was running
10psi over target pressure--due to a cheap gauge.
>
> During my Great Divide Ride we stopped one morning to check tire
> pressures. I thought it odd that "John's" bike tire had such a
> different width of footprint than mine in the soft soils (same tire
> pressures and same tire width, albeit, his was a D606 and mine a
> K270, the footprint should have been 'close')--as well as an odd
wear
> pattern on his 606's. We exchanged tire gages. They were 10 psi
> different at 32psi (desired). His gauge read 42psi on my bike,
mine
> read 22 on his tire. Somebodies gauge is lying to us. I first
> thought it might be mine--as John's gauge was 'new'.
>
> We checked the station operator's gauge as well. It read 32psi. on
> my bike, as did my own gauge. My gauge had been checked against
Jeff
> Saline's digital gauge before leaving, so I was confident it was
> correct. John was confident, his was correct because it was 'new'.
>
> At the next NAPA store, I bought a new 'slide type' and a digital
> gauge. Both read exactly the same as my gauge. When confronted
> about his inaccurate gauge, John said,
>
> "What do you expect for (sic) 99cents?"
>
> sigh. John had been running 10 psi over 'desired' for some 4K miles
> at this point. It should have been more obvious to us, as he had
> commented that the dealer that did his tire exchange in Kalispell,
MT
> had put the tire pressure 10 psi lower than he had asked. (Now we
> know why.)
>
> We found a trash can for the lying gauge.
>
> Just another pivot point in proper preparation.
>
> His overinflated tires did us no favors in the mud, but perhaps
> helped significantly against a pinch flat while we were banging on
> the rocks. That's what I keep telling myself....
>
> revmaaatin.
>