rigid ss

[el gueche]

anyone else ride a rigid? if so what psi do you favor? keep it rigid - ouch

[mtnbykr]

anyone else ride a rigid? if so what psi do you favor?
depends on what size tire, where you ride and how you ride....

i'm running 2.6 kendas and like them squishy. my gage is broke [see last psi post] so i do it by feel. a softer tire rides better but can be prone to pinch flats. if you ride the bottoms or lh, you can get by w/ a higher psi than if you ride in duluth on the rocks/roots/leaves/mud.

i've been known to run <30psi in my 29er ircs but they don't like it...

don't take this the wrong way, but don't worry about the numbers so much as the ride you like. put 40/45psi in, go ride and let air out until you get the ride you like.[or add air...]. and you'll prolly need to run different psi for different trails

[jeffgude]

It depends on the trail. If there are a lot of rocks I will run higher pressure, but I always try to go as low as I can, and I've guess wrong a couple times and ended up walking out with a pinch flat. I run 2.4 Mutanoraptors on my ss. I am sure that tubeless would be a great investment for a rigid SS.

[TML]

I just replied to this question in your other thread then just saw this one. Heres the post from that thread:

What size tires are you running? The larger the tire, the lower pressure you can get away with before worrying about pinch flats and rim dings.

On my rigid ss (steel) I have a Conti Vertical Pro (2.3) on the front and a Ritchey zmax (2.25) on the rear. Generally speaking I run the front around 35 and the rear around 40. Mostly it's a pump and squeeze type of a guaging system kinda like Kurt's.

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[manual63]

Would you run different pressure on a Rigid ss than on a Rigid geared?

If so.....why?

[jeffgude]

Does anybody actually ride a rigid geared bike anymore? The only ones who are fool enough to ride w/o front suspension are people on SS.

[Brick]

Does anybody actually ride a rigid geared bike anymore? The only ones who are fool enough to ride w/o front suspension are people on SS.
I did untill this spring.....:confused:

[Tex]

Does anybody actually ride a rigid geared bike anymore? The only ones who are fool enough to ride w/o front suspension are people on SS.I do, I just took my front shock off my hardtail and went back to a rigid fork, just for $hit$ and giggles. After years of riding dual suspension bikes, it makes you have to choose a line again, versus just riding over everything. Only thing is, now I'm a bit older than I was the last time I rode a fully rigid bike, it hurts a bit more these days.

[stoneage]

I do, I just took my front shock off my hardtail and went back to a rigid fork, just for $hit$ and giggles. After years of riding dual suspension bikes, it makes you have to choose a line again, versus just riding over everything. Only thing is, now I'm a bit older than I was the last time I rode a fully rigid bike, it hurts a bit more these days.

Unless you just keep riding it till everything goes numb.
X-rated is right; it does make you pick a line better and you learn to ride 'softer'. You get a whole lot better going into uphill turns, too.

[el gueche]

i rode the bottoms tonight at 35 f / 40 r and i now know i like a little more psi at the bottoms - it was dragging - im running kenda kenetics at 2.35 - i was thinking of picking up a kenetic 2.6 for the front - and i just got my hands on an old nishiki colorado multi speed rigid w/biospace - houston we have a problem - shad, on a rigid multi or ss the psi is the suspension - at milaca sitting was brutal and standing wasnt much better - over

[Tegra54]

Does anybody actually ride a rigid geared bike anymore? The only ones who are fool enough to ride w/o front suspension are people on SS.
this guy does due to lack of funds :hit:

yeah and the ego thing of passing guys on FS bikes :banana:

[soupboy]

...but since I'm a big fat person I tend to run 5psi more than the average Joe - 40ish front, 45ish rear.

Waiting for the big meats to arrive for the 29er so that I can drop everything into the 30s w/o pinchys or having the tire rollover in the turns.

Sean