Originally Posted by bigchris603
How much tire pressure should run in the snow? Higher pressure to dig in deeper or lower pressure for contact area? I usualy run a round 40 psi at this presure I have a little squish in them, like a car tire.
Thanks for the help
chris
Lower pressure typically works better. IN fact you will see where a lot of the experts run very low pressure and actually glue the tire to the rim on one side. I don't prefer the low pressure however. I run slime and if you are running very low pressure, it won't have a chance to work.
It takes a few pounds of air pressure for the hole to seal with slime. Obviously with low pressures, your tire is flat before it ever seals. I rode for a couple hours on Saturday in some pretty good snowfall. I ran around 60 lbs in the tires. I was running a Nashbar studded on the front and a Geax Blade on the rear.
I evenn pulled the sled around a little when i got home.
The geax blade really digs in. It didn't even slip when pulling a sled.
