Allan
Registered User
Cheers Pete.1200Pete said:I generally check my tyre pressures after each session until I feel that I am some where up to speed. In this particular case the sessions where only about 8 laps and the track was 1.8 Ish miles long.
My pressures will not be of any use to any one because I do not know what they were cold before I went onto the track, the first time out was a three lap sighting session (speeds up to about 80Mph) My bike felt fine and the tyres were already a few Psi down from the Nurburg Ring.
There is no normal or average road temp, as once again there are so many variables. But whether your tyres are running with 42Psi in the middle of winter or 52Psi after a good ride in the middle of summer On the road this will be well within the tyres specs and will generally not really make a noticeable difference at road speeds.
I do understand what you are saying in your earlier posts Buzz, and to a large extent I fully agree with you, a lot of people do not ride a lot faster or lean a lot further than a fast road rider. Therefore completely pointless and in some cases down right dodgy to let air out of a tyre that is not working particularly hard in the first place.
All I know is even on my hardest road ride, my tyre never looks like it does after even a single track session and I also know that if I leave my tyres at standard pressure they slip and slide until I let some out :dunno:
Well to appease all who have posted and to prove I have an open mind to change, the next track session I do I shall have a play with pressures once the tyre has got warm, but its knowing where to set it:dunno: .
I'm doing a fairly long hard ride on Saturday on normal roads, so I shall take the pressure at the end of it and see what its at.
This will give me a 'yardstick' of what the normal operating pressure of my tire/bike/weight setup is for this time of the year. I shall then reduce my track pressure to the pressure obtained on my Saturday ride and compare the two.
If its an improvement I will admit so on the forum, if I find it no different or unstable, I shall say so.
Cant be fairer than that now can I?
Buzz