| Author | Message | ||
     Dsergison |
does anyone use them? do you like them? to the effect balance a lot? Thanks, Dan | ||
| Pwnzor |
They look like a potential leaking point to me. Is this what you're talking about? Also it looks heavy, may throw your wheel off balance. | ||
| Mxer83 |
my neighbor had 1 on his cruiser, they dont work, his pressure was always off.They are for chicks that dont want to check pressure on cars themselves | ||
| Midknyte |
They are [in]accurate to 15% (per their own documentation). That's +- 5 lbs on 36 psi. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I don't know about the rest of you, but 1 pound makes a big difference to me. | ||
| Old_man |
I bought them, used them, then threw them away. Tires were slowly losing air with them installed. | ||
| Slaughter |
Wot Pwnzor sed! I'm just a little suspicious of those little things. I find that "GOOD" tire pressure gages easily vary as much as 2 pounds. You might be able to do a crude calibration run by bleeding the pressure down and then noting the actual pressure for each color... dunno, sounds like a lot of work. Carry a gage with you that you have calibrated and it makes life easy. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I use a digital guage every time I leave the garage. Tires are one thing I'm really tight on. I throw them away with a lot of tread still on them, according to some people. To me they look bald but then some folks run 'em down to the cords. I wince when I see bikes on the road with patches of white or yellow showing. | ||
| Old_man |
I check my tire pressure before every ride. Better than noticing a problem on the road. | ||
| Dsergison |
pwnzor, I think your full of it. 1lb? what do you have? a calibrated a$$? are you a professional racer? who here (Really, Honestly) checks their tires more than just looking at them pre-ride? I ride every freaking day to work. I can not remember the last time I used a gage on them. | ||
| Cowboy |
I have a small hammer on a table where I store my bikes, I give them a small bump each day works for me. | ||
| Kdan |
I kick 'em. My foot is calibrated to within .278 lbs. My left one. My right is metric. | ||
| Hans |
Dsergison: THANKS for your comments !! I started to think that I was a most irresponsible rider. I just have a quick look, knowing that it needs more than 4 or 5 months, before I have to raise the pressure with 1 or 2 pounds. Apart from that: I can`t use my gauge without loosing some air. I don`t like the idea that measuring the prescribed pressure precisely, the pressure is already somewhat lower at the end of the measuring process. Hans | ||
| Jayvee |
I put a pair of these on my wife's commuter car, but seems like they have stiction or something, I kept finding the tires were up to 5 pounds low, but they still showed green. Kind of defeats the point. Well, in other words, they "don't work". | ||
| Dsergison |
I cant feel anything weird untill I'm dangerously low. like <25? and I'm commuting, on public roads, I do ride kinda fast on the twistie roads. but often there is a gravel spot from rain runoff, or from a car kicking gravel from the shoulder. so I don't count on %100. even %90. I figure if they keep me from taking off with less than 25# when I'm running out the door thats a good $7 spent | ||
| Pwnzor |
pwnzor, I think your full of it. 1lb? what do you have? a calibrated a$$? are you a professional racer? who here (Really, Honestly) checks their tires more than just looking at them pre-ride? Where to begin...? My compressor is right next to the workbench, next to which the bike itself is parked. The digital guage is right on top of my tool box. My bike warms up for at least 4 minutes before I leave, so that gives me a lot of time to check everything out. I check my tire pressure EVERY time the bike leaves the garage. I am not a professional racer. I do have a calibrated ass. And spine. And neck. I know a bit about tires, seeing as I buy them by the hundred for my vehicles. Hell, I've got a single trailer with 46 tires on it. 1 pound of pressure in any tire can make a world of difference If you ride every day to work and can't remember the last time you checked your tire pressure then there is going to be a day when you will wish you had taken the time to do simple things. Do you not warm your bike up? Do you get right on it and grab all the throttle you can? Well, have fun doing it but I'M going to get a million miles out of MY bike. And she's going to look and perform new when I get there. } | ||
| Roadrailer |
pwnzor, I think your full of it. 1lb? what do you have? a calibrated a$$? are you a professional racer? who here (Really, Honestly) checks their tires more than just looking at them pre-ride? I ride every freaking day to work. I can not remember the last time I used a gage on them. I check my tires before every ride. Period. That's a very small volume of air, and can change pretty dramatically from day to day. And if I have a cut or nail, I'll hopefully notice the pressure drop before it gets dangerous. Not to mention that a properly inflated tire handles better and lasts longer. The fact that you can't notice a difference in handling until your tire gets that low is kinda surprising to me (and a bit worrisome, to be honest). | ||
| Kdan |
PwnZor can feel a pea under his mattress too! Editted for the spelling nazi!}}} (Message edited by kdan on August 25, 2006) | ||
| Rich |
I got rid of those, then went down and got the lighted ones, they DO work! | ||
| Pwnzor |
 I've got a sense of humor, and I work fast. | ||
| Lonexb |
+1 on checking my tire pressure, before every ride. it is part of my pre-ride ritual. brian | ||
| Slaughter |
PwnZor can feel a pee under his mattress too! Whenever I feel a PEE in my mattress, it's too late, it's time for Depends. A pea now, that's something else.  | ||
| Djkaplan |
"I check my tire pressure before every ride. Better than noticing a problem on the road." This is SOP for me as well. Not sure I could feel a 1 psi difference, but I always get the tire pressure to the exact psi required. | ||
| Dsergison |
maybe 25 is a bit to low... I check them last night they were both 31. I put them at 36f 34r it might be a bit more precise now? and a touch harsher? but when this dedrades slowly over time I can not say. I wish maybe I bought the 36 psi version so I could be sure I was over 30. a guy with 46 tires in a trailer, IS a professional racer in my book.  you buy tires by the hundred? like what's you tire bill? $10,000? holly crap. | ||
| Pwnzor |
$10,000, I wish. The tires are underneath the trailer, attached to it. | ||
| Ryker77 |
Tire saftey question. How dangerous is a plug? my brand new rear tire got a screw in the on the outer edge of the tread. I don;t ever lean the bike that hard.. But still It worries me at high speeds. | ||
| Dsergison |
I run with a plug. I'm alive. a patch is better, a patch with a bit of plug glue rasped through the hole like you would for a plug is best. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Oh god, there's already a plug argument going on... | ||
| Diablobrian |
whether you do or don't believe in plugging tires it's almost always noted that plugs should only be used in the center (area) of the tires. the edges and sidewalls are not good places to plug. PS: I in no way advocate the use of plugs in motorcycle tires, but if you MUST go with the umbrella type, or better yet the type that get patched from inside the tire. | ||
| Statik |
a plug in a tire can be used to check the psi, just yank the plug out and quickly put your ear to the hole in the tire, you can hear the tire pressure in lbs or even in bar. then quickly replace the plug before you lose to much psi. |
