180 wide tire kit issue solved
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The recommended pressures (for solo and 2-up) are the same. Check your owners manual. Always go by the recommended pressures for the vehicle you are riding/driving and not by what's on the side of the tire. Tires always have a max cold psi on the side of them but that is not necessarily what you should run them at. Keep in mind that, if you have spokes, you are inflating a tube, not the tire itself, technically, and the tube is the same part number for the Dunlop 160 and the SE 180.
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What I meant is the pressures are the same for the 160 stock tire and the 180 SE tire. There are still separate recommendations for solo vs. 2-up but those recommendations are the same regardless of which tire. Although, I admit, I don't change mine for 2-up unless I'm going for very long or far. My wife is tiny and we don't ride very hard when she's with me.
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Not all tires are the same, Metzelers require a different PSI than Dunlops as I recall. Go with the manufacturers guidelines on the tires.
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We aren't talking about Metzelers though are we? And neither was I until you edited my quote to the point where it was out of context with regards to the tire manufacturer.
Regardless, you don't just inflate the tire to the max value on the side of the tire. You have to take what it's mounted on into account.
Regardless, you don't just inflate the tire to the max value on the side of the tire. You have to take what it's mounted on into account.
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I did not edit your words, only used the key part, you made a statement "recommendations are the same regardless of which tire" which is not true for all tires, that was my only point. Someone else reading your words may not have fully understood that you were thinking only Dunlops. I did not mean to step on your toes, only clarify an important issue.
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I did not edit your words, only used the key part, you made a statement "recommendations are the same regardless of which tire" which is not true for all tires, that was my only point. Someone else reading your words may not have fully understood that you were thinking only Dunlops. I did not mean to step on your toes, only clarify an important issue.
What I meant is the pressures are the same for the 160 stock tire and the 180 SE tire.
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I did not edit your words, only used the key part, you made a statement "recommendations are the same regardless of which tire" which is not true for all tires, that was my only point. Someone else reading your words may not have fully understood that you were thinking only Dunlops. I did not mean to step on your toes, only clarify an important issue.
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All tires are not same as we known , but tires which the company's made are good enough to ride and all users may feel comfort with all tyres which the company had introduced.
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