Originally Posted by
mrrabbit
1. 110 KGF for a 36H front? Should only need 90-95 KGF.
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There's a possibility you've already killed the rim via overtensioning + use - with the new tires at high PSI revealing this. The fact that you get HUGE swings in tension readings inflating and deflating lends to this as well...
100-110 KGF is what we are typically looking for on the drive side of rear asymmetrical wheels and asymmetrical disc wheels in 32 / 36 hole.
I don't disagree that his starting tension is perhaps higher than I would go, but the right tension is a range, and as you point out with your Martano example, requires a rim-in-the-wheel assessment. It's not something I would attempt over the internet unless I had had personal experience with the same wheel.
It's possible that the rim was overstressed (I think "killed" might be an overstatement) by tensioning to 136kgf. Good that you pointed it out, and worth checking for damage. But that's not the original problem, it was a response to the original problem.
The only significant variable in the original problem was the tires. I've given one possibility as to why one tire would cause more tension loss than another. Is there another? How does one accommodate such a tire except by raising the overall tension in the wheel? It's a tricky situation.