how much psi everybody uses

[sheeblast]

dont have any uneven tire wear, have zero problems.
i have been doing it correct. you need to check your tire PSI when your tires are warm, not cold. the heat will cause the PSI to increase. so if you have your tires at 40PSI when they are cold, they might increase to over 45psi once warmed up.
i also wont run them at 40psi in the winter, need the lower psi for traction in the snow. plus once it becomes summer, it will increase the psi from the heat.
i moniter my tires weekly. i know what i am doing.

plus the faster you go, the more PSI you want in your tires.

 

[xJust_Causex]

actually your suppose to check them cold, some manuals even say cold tire temp is blah blah blah, and the oppisite is true for winter ( I thought the same thing before I started working in a tire shop) you want more pressure to have a narrow tire so you dig down to the hard surface, unless you have bad iceing, but then your pretty well screwed without chains or spikes.

 

[sheeblast]

i check mine warm so i dont go over that PSI. mine warm is at 40psi. cold i think it was around 35-36psi. but i run my lower in the winter for better handling. the narrow tire wouldn't grip and turn that good, the wider tire will.
i wont go to tire shops. i will change my own tires and sh*t. only time i go there is to swap quad tires when i cant break the bead with my machine.

 

[xJust_Causex]

next question what do you define as warm, there is a reason as to why it says could, because its easier for your common idiot to check tires at ambient temp, then say warm.

 

[sheeblast]

i check mine after my drive home from work. which is around 40miles of mainly highway. that is what i define as warm. warm is the temp of the tires during usage, or as close as i can get. they might cool down a little from the highway temps to the couple miles i drive on back roads.

 

[hotrodaj_2]

Lol, your getting close to 100 different anwsers. Call the tire mfg. that is the only people that know what to run in their tire.

 

[sheeblast]

^^^ not really, they give you a safe number, every place is different. just do what you feel best. and for quads you really shouldn't go over 10psi. i normally do the foot test. i like my hard for my trail behind my house, but a little low for some places i ride.
also in the winter, on some quads, i ran them low for traction, but my last quad, i had to pull them all the way up or they would leak. the rubber in the tire got so cold it would become hard around the bead and start to leak.

 

[89blasty]

i run wooly boogers on the rear and only 1.5 psi in them. ofcourse i think theres somethin wrong i run that low of pressue and there still hard as a rock and on the tire it says to run 4 psi. i put air in my fronts till there almost hard

 

[roadkill]

i have 5 in the front and 3 in the back

 

[tjsdaname]

^^^ not really, they give you a safe number, every place is different. just do what you feel best. and for quads you really shouldn't go over 10psi. i normally do the foot test. i like my hard for my trail behind my house, but a little low for some places i ride.
also in the winter, on some quads, i ran them low for traction, but my last quad, i had to pull them all the way up or they would leak. the rubber in the tire got so cold it would become hard around the bead and start to leak.

there is nothing wrong with going over 10psi...

go to any national and ask some people what they run, average will be 10-16psi...

 

[hotrodaj_2]

Ok, so has this helped you at all. Pressures are all over the board here and I would'nt trust most of them. If I was to go to the track with a new tire I knew nothing about I would at least call the guys I bought them from or the company that made them. You give them the terrain info and they will should get you in the ball park. Beside that, who the hell knows what you want as far as pressures.

 

[xJust_Causex]

shoulda helped a little, and I would trust most, TBH like someone said tire manufacture can give you a figure of what they think there tire would be good for, but it could be completely rough for your application type of riding, i would trust more of the guys on here, than tire manufactures.

 

[hotrodaj_2]

Maybe, I hope he has a ball park on pressures. I'm just saying what I would do. If you give the maker or seller the terrain and type of bike they better know what there tire wants. They wont sell me another tire again if they dont.