Subject: Re: Rearsets for Eldorado
Author: Bruce Giller
Date: Aug 2, 2002, 6:10 AM
Post ID: 1710719482
Aren't the tire pressures listed in the owners manuals for older style
tires which were very stiff & rigid; you didn't need to pump up the
tires all that much. New tires are far more flexible & limber and
require higher pressures.
Here is what Godfrey G. told me when I asked him about tire pressures
for my Eldo with K491s:
| Pressures at those levels will wear out your tires very very rapidly through flex and heat build up, and you'll have poor steering stability. On my T with the same tires, I run 34psi front and 39psi rear. The original tire pressures were something like 26 and 29, which turns it into a wallowing pig with K491s. Modern tires are softer and more flexible than the hockey puck rubber rim protectors of 1973, they need more pressure to operate correctly. |
Bruce
Charles Peterson wrote:
Along with proper (21 front and 25 rear by the book) tire pressures the bike started feeling like it was on rails---I've never heard of any rearsets for loopers...always bags and fairings... |