It's official. Winter has gone!
Better have anyway. Thermal liners from my jacket and trousers are out and washed.
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Just taken winter tyres off my Civic and put shiny alloys with summer tyres back on. I have Avon ZV7 tyres and in six months they have been in garage they have lost absolutely no pressure - which is impressive.
Have been out on SV a couple of times this year, well wrapped up - maybe I can dispense with a layer or two next ride. |
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Might just leave my liner in for another month. Can always pop it in the topbox if I get too warm when out n about.
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I was onto something. May even consider opening the vents!!! |
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Every time the valve gets opened and closed air escapes and you introduce the chance of debris getting stuck in the valve seal. From my experience with modern tubeless tyres zero loss in six months doesn't surprise me at all, it is exactly what I would expect based on my own pressure checking regime... |
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An interesting thing when I checked my tyres after winter storage this year was that when I took off one of the valves it hissed and let out pressure. I thought the valve was knackered but the tyre pressure was the same as last year. So there must have been built up pressure in the valve cap, probably from the bike being stored in a hot conservatory. This was a plastic normal valve. The metal valve on the other wheel didn't do the same
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My car has a pressure monitoring system (crude one that compares wheel speeds) but it correctly flagged up a puncture that I would never have noticed by eye. |
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It is officially here, seen the first housemartin today
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My partner in Turkey bought a 1.6 Astra. It constantly warns of low pressure at one of the wheels but when she tries to put air in, it registers full pressure. She then has to check the other 3 wheels because one of them is low. The warning light on the dash nearly always shows the wrong wheel. Nearly always.
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