Originally Posted by
mpetry912
In daily practice what this means is, consider the air temperature when setting your tire pressure. If you start off on a ride and it's a summer day with temps likely to reach 85 or 90 (lets just say) when you pump up your tires at the ride start allow for some increase in pressure as the temps rise thru the day.
That 's accounting for a change in pressure. In this case due to a change in temperature. It's no different than considering pressure changes during a ride for any other reason (e.g. air loss through a latex tube). Tell me how would optimum pressure change for a ride at 0C vs. 30C?