• Sorry - can you explain this in an idiot dialect so I can understand?

    I've always just shoved on 23mm tyres and inflated them as high as their rating allows (150psi for the panaracer at the front, 120psi for the tame gaterskin at the back). I'm 95kg. Am I risking some sort of Singular Event? Or is there something in your findings that'll make me go even faster?

    Tyre presssure is related to rider weight, and tyre volume. The rating on the casing is just a guideline maximum. Unless you get your tyres custom made, and labeled, for you. Its wrong. By quite a lot.

    increasing rim width, improves both tyre profile, and volume. this allows for less pressure. Which in turn gives more grip and comfort, with little rolling resistance penalty.

    Punch your weight and tyre size into this, adjust your pressures accordingly, and try it.

    http://www.dorkypantsr.us/bike-tire-pressure-calculator.html

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