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From: dsn@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: clincher tire pressure question
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 17:54:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 17:54:48 1984
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> From: kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee)
> 
> In his "Bicycle Maintenance Manual", Eugune Sloan, a Bicycling
> magazine editor, recommends that sport clinchers be pumped up to
> 100-115 psi.  Most clinchers have recommended pressures of 90-95
> psi.  Is there any danger associated with higher pressures?  Is
> the reduced rolling resistance really noticable?

There sure is--you're likely to get flat tires that way.  Several
times when riding in hot weather I've gotten flat tires simply because
the tires got so hot that the air pressure got too high.
-- 
Dana S. Nau
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