Tuesday, May 06, 2014 at 15:49
Tyre pressures, generally same as vehicle tyres are deflated to.
General pressures WITH touring load (normal road pressures in town / trips not loaded too much, etc = 36).
What I use below as a general rule . . . others may vary in their choices of course.
Off the blacktop as soon as I'm on dirt / gravel for a long stretch = 30
Ruts / mild corros = 25
Track work with loose
rock etc = 25
Bad corros = try 22
Sand = 10 to 18 (have let em down to 8 before a few times too, and have seen some run flat to get off bad beaches)
You should watch cornering at low pressures, say under 24 for touring speeds with load, keep it to 80 in those cases in any case too perhaps.
Rolling tyres happens often, esp on beaches.
I usually go 4WDH off blacktop, provided it's not hard packed clay etc, has to be some loose stuff for slippage of drive wheels.
You also might want to consider adjustable shocks for your trailer and / or vehicle too, taking my Rancho 9000's down to say setting 2 or 3 (out of 9) makes corros a lot easier to handle, but mostly you just have to find the right speed to reduce to effect . . . not recommending it unless very alert to crests etc, but sometimes corros are better on the right side of the track !!
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