njee20 – Member
So they reckon 40:60 weight distribution on a road bike, so that’s 28kg on the front wheel for a 70kg rider, so 65psi… no thanks!
No, it’s bike + rider weight, and the 40:60 is just a guide line. Yellow pages under the back wheel, then scales under the front and sit on the bike; then swap to get an accurate ratio.
70kg rider + assumed 7kg bike on 23 mm tyres = 70 front / 105 rear.
Don’t write it off without trying it.
asterix – Member
at such a low pressure doesn’t your front tyre start to “squirm” when cornering fast?
Not that I’ve noticed. It gives the same effective squish on your front and rear tyres. Without carrying the track pump and trying a corner at e.g. 100/100 and 75/110 I don’t think you’d readily notice.
The main difference I have noticed is that the front wheel grips so much better and doesn’t skip over small bumps, and the rear wheel never bottoms out.
Works for me anyway. Nothing to stop you adding 10% to those figures, but according to the article, that’s the optimum balance between the amount of squish for the tyres to work properly over bumps and roll fastest.