Tyre Pressures

[The Great Pretender]

Yay, another excuse to play with my laser thermometer

I prefer hands on myself................

[missfixit70]

Yay, another excuse to play with my laser thermometer

I prefer hands on myself................

I'm sure you do Mel

[Ron Miel]

Mine, recently changed, ran another 16,000 km here on the tyres it came from Japan with. Once the motor was camper converted here, I ran them at 36 front/38 rear (which did bulge a bit at the rear) - with no sign of tread edge wear, or any other uneven wear.

They were reinforced tyres but they did nonetheless bulge a wee bit as above - but, any higher pressure and they would have been an unbearably hard ride.

I changed them out early (3 or 4k miles perhaps still on them), when a good time to put all-seasons tyres on came along (ice and snow, early Jan), and am now running the new ones at those same pressures. They are a very much more comfortable and quieter ride, and bulge about the same amount as, or even slightly less than, the old reinforced tyres - but they are specified as being flexible configuration tyres, so I still don't expect uneven wear.

My conclusion: there's no "right" tyre pressure for Bongos. It depends on gross weight, and specific tyre characteristics.