Tyre Guage

Hi

I am going to purchase a tyre guage fo my 03 BB.

Anyone have any recommendations for a reasonably priced accurate
guage?

The tyre pressure is supposed to be checked while cold, does a 1/2 klm
ride to a servo warm the tyres up much?


Sean

 

Depends if you do any Dubbo-style tyre warming I suppose.

;-)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:44:42 GMT

Get a digital one from Dick Smith. Test you can fit it on your bike
before buying, the small ones can be tricky to get past disks.

Doubt it, the poor molecules are hardly awake, let alone zooming round
at any speed. But you can test that easy enough.

Zebee

 

Buy a thermometer too.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

These come highly recommended by some friends of mine who work at
Qantas, apparently they use them to check 747 tires, and while thay have
very stringent calibration requirements and they get tested regularly,
apparently they are _always_ accurate and they've never even heard of a
single one being far enough out of calibration to need
adjusting/replacing.

Having said that, I use a cheapo pen type pressure guage that I got
given "free with every set of tires" for the Beetle in a previous
life... It may not be absolutely accurate, but it _is_ consistent, and I
know that when it says 27psi, thats good for the Spada (vale Spada) on
the track, and when it says 36psi, its good for the Monster on the
street. They may not actually be exactly 27 and 36 psi, but they are
close, and more importantly they are the same pressure as last time when
it said 27 or 36...

big

 

and to be really accurate an altimeter and possibly a barometer, you can't
be too careful

brett
R(atbike)80

 

Pyrometer better for tyres methinks.

Ash.

 

hmm good idea might have to pull that out next time go for a ride

infrared thermo meter with laser sight

 

Probably about 2 psi extra.

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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s
'87 BMW K100RT

www.dmcsc.org.au

 

On 7/6/04 2:25 PM, in article ,
"Iain Chalmers" <> decided to come out from under
the bed and slurred:

Snip

....and you know this, how?

Hammo

 

Not one person criticised the spelling mistake! Is harsh week really over?

jookie

I'm not critising BTW

 

no **** off ya cahn

 

'cause the tires work the same on the track when the guage reads the
same.

(I've also spend some time with it taking a bunch of readings off the
same tire and it always re-measures to within half a psi or so)

big (awaiting the obligatory Hammo pedantic response ;-)

 

You answered it for me.

Hammo

 

His name's BTH....


Postman Pat

 

I'm critising you

 

Leave me out of this, Mr La-De-Da 12V man!


BTH

 

I'm os usde to teh carp spellnig I don't neve nitoce

Brett
R(atbike)80