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Old 04-28-15 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by rhm
Just so. Unless your tires are very skinny and you are pretty heavy, you probably don't need that kind of pressure. Frank Berto's tire pressure chart is a useful tool for estimating the tire pressure you need. Not everyone agrees with the specifics, but the general principle seems pretty robust to me:
And if that gold-standard chart doesn't reach the tire widths you are interested in, you might give a try to my attempt to capture the essence of the chart in a formula, to apply to any values of load/width.
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