A rolling tire will be warm and flexible as opposed to the one in your home garage. You should be running 32-35 PSI if you are running on the road. You can get by with less in the dirt if you have the rim locks but they should be reinflated for the road. If the tire slips, the valve stem will be ripped out. I carry a spare tube and also patches for minor leaks and still am iffy about using slime or berrymans. mike in Ok
Mike Truel, RETIRED! WOOF (well off older folk)
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new devol front disc guard-fits xr650l
tire stuff
For what its worth a racer/machanic I know who happily spends most if
his spare time fine tuning the suspension & tire setup on his fleet of
bikes recommended to me that for road riding I should lower the pressure
from the setting you recommended to 26 psi in the front and 28 psi in
the rear. Not having any better ideas of my own I followed his advice
over 5k miles ago and have been quite satisfied. The tires seem to grip
well leaned over to the edge of the tread (Pirelli Scorpion A/T tires)
and it is not as twitchy in the highway as before. Incidentally, leaned
over to the edge of the tread the tires at that pressure leave black
marks on the road (especially the rear as it drifts about a foot to the
outside), but haven't completely given way yet.
Mike A18
KLR650 tires page:
[www.standoutnet.com/extras/mike/motorcy ... r650/tires]
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Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Tire stuff
A rolling tire will be warm and flexible as opposed to the one in your
home garage. You should be running 32-35 PSI if you are running on the
road. You can get by with less in the dirt if you have the rim locks but
they should be reinflated for the road. If the tire slips, the valve
stem will be ripped out. I carry a spare tube and also patches for minor
leaks and still am iffy about using slime or berrymans. mike in Ok
Mike Truel, RETIRED! WOOF (well off older folk)
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