Quote Originally Posted by ZMC888 View Post
... that tire is massively over inflated...
Oh yeah I recently had my wire wheel rims converted to tubeless on my Dragstar 1100. It cost rmb2500 including the tires, fitting and conversion at a shop which is specialising in working on big motorcyles, jap imports, some euorpean stuff etc., though the workshop is a typical CHN garage -a pigsty. I removed the wheels and took them to the shop so that there'd be less chance of something going wrong or happening to my bike while it was parked in the shop for the 2-3 days, it was to take for the conversion. The day arrived when it was to be completed so that evening me and a mate (who'd told me about the workshop) went to collect the wheels. Unfortunately they weren't completely ready, but after a couple of hours I had two new tubeless tyres on wire spoked wheel rims. Took them home and fitted them the next day, then proceeded to set my bike up for a three day ride planned in June, but I didn't check the tyre pressures of the wheels. foolish me, I have lived here long enough, I should know by now... you just can't trust 'em. During my ride http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...u-AnHui-return it didn't take me long to work out that my front tyre was overinflated, she was pulling wide in corners and the feedback from bumps in the road were noticeable. I had a compressor with me, as I always take a shiet load of gear/tools on our longer rides, just in case. When I removed the valve cap, and tried to let air out it was ridiculously slow, the air was coming out so little that even after 30 mins the pressure had decreased by less than 1 lb/in2. In the end I gave up. At some broken backwater of a little town during our ride I found a car/truck tyre shop/garage (apply shop/garage with imagination) anyway, it took the guy working there ages to finally get air out of the tyre, he tried all kinds of methods. Finally he managed to use a long thick pin/needle which allowed the air out. Depressing the valve was just a waste of time. Removing the valve did nothing, no air escapped even when the valve had been removed completely from the valve stem. There was just so much air inside it had occluded the small hole internally.
So how over inflated was my front tyre... guess? 5 ib/in2, maybe 10, 15 perhaps even 20... oh no... it was more than 90 lb/in2 almost 300%. When I told the guy that had told me about that motorcycle shop, he was like oh yeah well they wanted to over-inflate to help bead the seal in. WTF!
That's why not only should we apply some common-sense like "you get what you pay for" but also here it's like "you also get what-EVER you get, what you pay for!"
Everything here just for looking beAware the smoke and mirrors for nothing (absolutely nothing) is as it seems!