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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

RIDER SKILLS: Off-Road Tire Pressure Settings for Adventure Motorcycles

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Motorcycle tire pressure settings are critical and for adventure motorcycles heading into the dirt it could make the difference between a fun ride or steady frustration, but does the perfect setting exist? Can we look at the chart, match our terrain...

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Depending on how you ride and the terrain you're riding, if you're running street

0:04.6

pressures, then you may be working too hard or maybe even possibly feeling

0:08.4

downright miserable as you bounce off everything and wonder why your motorcycle is so difficult to control.

0:14.7

While maybe others that are riding with you are having no trouble at all and having the time of

0:18.5

their lives.

0:19.7

Your tire pressure may also be the difference in you getting through or maybe out of a situation or not.

0:26.0

But if you run too low of pressure, you may be paying an expensive bill for a new rim.

0:32.0

Now, how do you know what pressure to run?

0:35.0

Well, today on our exclusive rider skills program, we are very pleased to have two top

0:39.3

trainers that are going to help you through and maybe help you figure out the optimum tire pressure for your bike,

0:45.1

riding style, load, and terrain. We're going to talk with Bill Dragoo from Dart Adventures,

0:50.3

that's Tregu Adventure Rider Training, and Chris Birch from Say No to Slow,

0:55.0

both with great information on getting your tire pressure thing just right.

1:00.0

I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you.

1:05.0

I'm Sam Manic.

1:10.0

Simmer, Simon, baby, David, Gil Dragoon.

1:13.6

Jars, Charlie Bowman, Simon Thomas, Grand Johnson,

1:16.8

and Louis,

1:18.0

I'm Graham Jarvis, and you're listening to Adventure Rider radio.

1:20.9

It's wind pressure that powers the motobreeze chain oiler.

1:27.0

No electrical or vacuum connections. It delivers the oil to a felt pad on your swing arm, no

1:30.9

no nozzles near your sprockets, one ounce of oil gets a thousand miles or

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