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What pressure are you running in your car tire? I'm down to twenty cold. Still a little heavy steering effort. Running a 205/55ZR16 GMAX.
 
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The sticker in the doorjamb states 36 psi and 40 psi max when cold. If the pressure in my tires drop below 30, I feel my truck pull one way or another depending on which tire is lowest.
 
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I run 38-40 in the 205/60-16 on the back of my vtx1800.
 
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Haven't noticed any pulling left or right sense I only have one tire in the rear.
 
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Originally Posted by AlaskaAviator
What pressure are you running in your car tire? I'm down to twenty cold. Still a little heavy steering effort. Running a 205/55ZR16 GMAX.
You must be nutz running 20 psi cold in a GMax.

On my bike, with my GMax I found 32 psi cold to be a little mushy and am now running 36 psi cold.
 
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I ran 38 in the Yokohama I had on my VTX1800. I'm really amazed that you're not getting some pretty bad wobble at 20. Car tires on bikes are strange. A change in pressure of only 1-2 pounds is noticeable. It probably took me a month or more to find my sweet spot.

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I'm running 36lbs now on my 195/45/17 Yokohama. I'm going to add a couple lbs this afternoon to see how it handles. Only had the tire on since this past weekend.
Yeah, yeah I know. The tire police are going to come flooding here to tell us the CTs weren't made for motorcycles. Hey, dude, we've heard it all. Go back to your stone stock safety bike and don't worry about us.

 
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I'm running 36lbs now on my 195/45/17 Yokohama. I'm going to add a couple lbs this afternoon to see how it handles. Only had the tire on since this past weekend.
Yeah, yeah I know. The tire police are going to come flooding here to tell us the CTs weren't made for motorcycles. Hey, dude, we've heard it all. Go back to your stone stock safety bike and don't worry about us.

That looks really awesome on there.
 
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I usually run ~34-36 PSI in all four of my tires on my Mitsubishi.
 
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Wow, that's a real knee slapper there Crimson. I thought the joke had pretty much run itself out.

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I increased the pressure to 38lbs on the Yokohama CT and it handles a lot better than at 36lbs.
 


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