Bongo Fury

missfixit70 wrote:Yay, another excuse to play with my laser thermometer

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

The Great Pretender wrote:

missfixit70 wrote:Yay, another excuse to play with my laser thermometer

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

I'm sure you do Mel

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.