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Old 07-07-10 | 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mcjimbosandwich
130psi is awfully high a pressure to run. what does your tire suggest
The tires are marked '130 PSI'. I read at Sheldon Brown's website that the ratings marked on the tire should be safe and usually reflect about half of the actual 'blowout pressure'.[1]

I weigh around 210 and after getting a pinch flat days after getting my first bike and having had no spare tubes at the time, I suppose I've been thinking that slightly over-inflating would be safer flat-wise than under-inflating. It sounds like perhaps I could take it down a bit to 120 or so. What do you think?

[1] http://sheldonbrown.com/tires.html

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