• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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SAFE TIRE PRESSURE FOR DUAL SPORTING

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mxhillbilly

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have been riding since I was 4, but always offroad. What is a safe PSI to run the stock dual sport tires for on road and off road? On most of my bikes in the past, I have kept the PSI around 12-15 lbs for the trails, depending on mud, rocks, etc..
 
mxhillbilly said:
I have been riding since I was 4, but always offroad. What is a safe PSI to run the stock dual sport tires for on road and off road? On most of my bikes in the past, I have kept the PSI around 12-15 lbs for the trails, depending on mud, rocks, etc..
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By DS do you mean DOT dirt tyres or hybrid dirt/road tyres? On the Husky for dirt only I run 12 back 15 front (psi). I run 20 in the back and about 22-23 in the front in my 690 with hybrid tyres. I find it to be a good balance if you are riding on both surfaces. You can drop them more for the dirt if it is slippery but it gives up a lot on the road if you go much lower than that. In general through I'm sure you could safely go much higher if you really wanted to.
 
I have ran quite a few miles on scorpion XCMH's and have had good luck at 16PSI front and rear on the street. If you want to drop them down a couple off road you could, have never needd too. They have really stiff sidewalls, so running that low on the street has worked fine so far
 
I run 9 lbs front and back, +/- 1 lb. I use Brigstone ultra heavy duty tubes. I use the stock rim locks. I run Michelin S12 tires.
Dirt type varies from Slimy to sandy, rocks are in both situation.Tight singletrac to rollling highspeed 2 trac with hidden obstacles.
I am on pavement, enough to make it "dualsport". I don't have any noticeable issues on pavement.
Way I figure it- set up the bike for the challenge- (offroad) not the breaks in between (paved/gravel).
Unless you are truely 90% riding pavement- I don't see a reason to set up for it.
 
10# if carrying a tube or riding close to the truck or home so I can ride back on a flat if needed.

12-13# if going far out and not carrying a tube.

BTW, I've been racing rocks for 10 yrs and never had a pinch flat at 10# or less.

If you run more than 15# in the tires the suspension will feel like a jackhammer.
 
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