Salsa warbird overkill?

I do the same. My bikes weight balance is 40/60, so I try to approximate that with my tire pressure. I also look at the contact patch when riding through water and make sure the size is equal (at least 50% the width of the tire).

NoCoGreg wrote:
Zman, if you haven't already tried this I'm pretty much the same weight as you and for gravel and mtb I run about 5 psi lower in the front than rear.  On the road I recently went to 7 to 8 psi difference as the pressure is much higher so the percentage difference is less.  Just a thot...

Greg

you are right NoCoGreg. I did run 5 lbs. lower when I raced at the Pony Express in Kansas as that was real gravel and flint there. On the Dirty Pecan this weekend it was all clay and very smooth. Lots of the local riders were riding roadie bikes with 28 mm or maybe 32 mm tires on them. The only guys I saw with flats were the guys 200 lbs. + or maybe some that were trying to run too skinny of tires. At my end I will take a weight penalty or slower tire over a thin/fast tire. I am not a racer or at least not yet. I would have to get back in shape for that and might have thoughts about going out and trying to place in my age group time will tell. Greg if you know gearing could you comment on my trying to get lower gearing for the Bootlegger 100 over on the Roker Review thread 

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Zman

dangle wrote:

Any idea what the tire pressure was set at? I'm 190+ lbs and wouldn't ride tires that size over 40 psi. Normally I'm around 30-33psi on 40mm tires. No frame, seat and handlebars are going to be soft enough to overcome overly inflated tires. It would be worth taking a tire gauge, setting the tires closer to a psi that equals your bodyweight divided by five, and test riding again before pulling the trigger on something that expensive.

dangle question for you. I am around the 200 lb range now. I was somewhat surprised on you saying you were running 30-33 psi. I thought that was for the 150 -160 lb riders. I heard that last year lots of riders were burping tires on the downhills at DK200 because they were running too low of psi. Have you ever burped a tire at that psi? At my end(roadie) it sure is tuff getting use to riding a 1/2 flat tire. I came bailing off the mt one time this summer as I thought my tire was going flat. There was no way I wanted to get stuck up in the mt. with no car traffic and no cell phone coverage in case I couldn't get the tire fixed. Turned out there wasn't anything wrong with the tire at all it has been a tough learning curve for me for sure.

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Zman

Burping is partially an issue of the right tire/wheel combo.  With a good wheel and a bead lock shelf (on the inner channel) and the appropriate tubless tire, you should not burp.  I use skinnystrippers and even getto tubless don't burp.

Here is the famous tire pressure chart - should help with weight/pressure questions: