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

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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 and riding style to our payload and suspension, and then adjust our pressure to the recommended setting? Well not quite, but it may be a little easier than you think and to walk us through this we turned to two rider trainers with slightly different approaches. Bill Dragoo, although very technical minded, likes to keep it simple and has some great ideas he has developed for setting tire pressures he can live with. Chris Birch comes from a high level racing background and is very in touch with his tire pressures and how subtle changes make a difference in the way the bike feels. Both are top level rider trainers that will help put us on the straight and narrow for setting our off-road tire pressure on our adventure motorcycle. Photos and links for this episode can be found on our website at adventureriderradio.com. Adventure Rider Radio is the original and longest running adventure motorcycle and travel podcast and has been produced weekly since 2014! You can count on us to be there for you every Thursday with a new and exciting episode, we never miss a week. And we hope we can count on you for your support. Become a Patreon supporter for just $5 a month and get a sticker and ad-free listening. Make a one time donation of just $10 and we'll send you a sticker. A donation of $50 or more also gets you a shout-out on RAW. To become a supporter please head over to the Support page on our website. Thank you!

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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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