All right, in this article we’re talking about tire pressure on motorcycles. This came up from a group discussion that I saw and it reminded me of good points that I think a lot of folks forget about because we not only have motorcycles, but we’ve got regular four wheel vehicles, that a good number of folks are weekend warriors with bikes. Need new tires? You can get them via these motorcycle importers.
They don’t ride them every day. You’re riding your everyday four wheel vehicle to and from work and picking up the kids and everything else. And what we tend to forget as motorcycle riders is the motorcycle tires don’t hold as much air as your ordinary tire, which is typically 32 to 35 PSI.
So what a lot of folks do is we get lulled into the thought process of check your air pressure on your bike tires just as much as you do your other vehicles. And you can’t do that because there’s so much less air naturally in the bike tires than an ordinary four wheel vehicle. So a couple of tips and things for you real quick as a reminder, or if you’re a new writer to keep in mind going forward. It’s recommended that you check your motorcycle tire pressure once a week.
Now obviously that can depend on how much you use it. If you’re a weekend warrior and you may ride once a week, maybe you don’t need to do it quite once a week, but definitely would want to do it way more often than you’re checking if at all, your other vehicles your four wheel vehicles tire pressure. So that’s number one. Check it more frequently. It’s obviously a very important issue. You lose a lot of traction, you lose a lot of feel, and it’s not as safe. So be careful.
Number two. When it comes to things that you can do, number one, get a compressor, get a gauge. There’s a lot of these handheld electronic air pressure compressors and things like that that you can keep in, you know, the compartments of your bike, you can keep in your jacket, you know, something like that. Even better, and this was a great recommendation from someone in the group and I looked it up super cheap ultimately for what it’s gonna do for you and that … Read the rest