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Technically Speaking => Wheels & Tyres => Topic started by: ARH on Sunday, 29 April 2018, 08:23 PM

Title: Good advice!
Post by: ARH on Sunday, 29 April 2018, 08:23 PM
Well... just back from 200km run on the new Angel GT's (scrubbed in last weekend)....have to say the advice from you guys was sound!  Certainly better than the Bridgestone T30 evo... nicer to tip in to corners, very very stable and no tracking with road snakes or white lines... actually caught me by surprise cos I scuffed by boots a couple of times on some twisties I like close to home... must be getting braver  :rofl2:

Cheers for the advice lads  :onya:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: grog on Monday, 30 April 2018, 05:06 PM
So glad you like them. Ive been telling exact what you said for 5 yrs now. I was amazed initially by turning in and no white line/ tar snake movement. Still love them. Wait until you see how they last, also amazing. Keep pressure up, they work better. 36/38 i use. Solo or two up but my mrs weighs nothing.
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: ARH on Monday, 30 April 2018, 06:18 PM
Grog.... had started out with 40 at rear... did'nt feel right... a bit 'skippy' if you know what I mean.   Dropped down to 38 and much much better.  Just goes to show how sensitive tyres are to the pressure/weight combination.   I am still a fat bas***d (thats what the wife calls me)... but clearly not as fat as some...  :whistling:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Monday, 30 April 2018, 06:23 PM
Yeees, I hear ya!   I run mine at 40-42 rear & 38-39 on front, purely because my riding gear is so heavy!  :whistling:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Monday, 30 April 2018, 06:28 PM
A big heavy guy (like me) is going to have to run higher pressure in the tyres than a skinny sickly weed that's only 60Kg wringing wet.  :lol: :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: grog on Monday, 30 April 2018, 07:01 PM
89 kg wet Col, fill out my 175 quite well. not a giant like you. sickly little weed, you can call me that.  :smitten: walked to school for 4 yrs with mate, 212cm, wonder how many extra steps i took compared to him. 
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: ARH on Monday, 30 April 2018, 07:51 PM
 :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Mick_J on Monday, 30 April 2018, 08:12 PM
A good mate of mine used to ride his push bike to our house and leave it there while we walked to school, on day it had rained and he was soaked so I leant him a pair of my school trousers but my mum had to put an 6" turn up on them first  :lol:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Sweaty on Monday, 30 April 2018, 08:53 PM
Good to hear ARH & always good to have more in the fan club  :onya:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Kiwifruit on Monday, 30 April 2018, 08:56 PM
Now I'm hearing the bloody sea level is rising....... so can all you over height fat bastards stop going swimming at the same time.  :stir:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Sweaty on Monday, 30 April 2018, 09:13 PM
BTW Col, I'm a skinny sickly weed + 21 kgs = 81kgs (so a thick sickly weed)  :grin: rear tyre at 38 psi or 40 with luggage on board for the weekends away.
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 02:40 AM
Grog & Sweaty, you can't be weeds if you're 81 & 89Kg.  I said 60Kg.  Actually Grog, at 89, you must have very dense bone mass.  :cheers: :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: ARH on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 03:29 AM
It think the last time I was 60kg wringing wet I was 18!   I'm a 'comforting, cuddly' 90kg at 180...  but I'm still a 'fb' to the missus....  what she hasn't realised is those bulges are actually muscle  :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 03:38 AM
Like any animal, we gotta have plenty of condition on to survive the winter.  I probably got enough condition on to survive a year of winter!  :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Andre on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 05:06 AM
Col, the "Donner Party" would have loved to have had you with them. Lots of calories for everyone :rofl2:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Sweaty on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 07:52 AM
Quote from: KiwiCol on Tuesday, 01 May  2018, 02:40 AM
Grog & Sweaty, you can't be weeds if you're 81 & 89Kg.  I said 60Kg.  Actually Grog, at 89, you must have very dense bone mass.  :cheers: :rofl2:

I was trying to make myself feel better about the weight I have started putting on Col  :grin:
Been 77kgs for the last 30 years, but after being brought down in the prime of my soccer career at 49 years old  ;) with a broken ankle. I am now a lazy 50 year old with a growing stomach.
:grin:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: grog on Tuesday, 01 May 2018, 07:00 PM
Col, i think its my huge brain that makes me heavy, i wish.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Wednesday, 02 May 2018, 01:41 AM
You probably weighed yourself while you had your wallet in yer pocket Grog!   :whistling:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: Irish in Oz on Thursday, 03 May 2018, 06:57 AM
All I read about here is pressure, have you big fat bastards put on A spec  :stir:
Title: Re: Good advice!
Post by: KiwiCol on Thursday, 03 May 2018, 08:13 AM
Put the bloody lid back on that can of worms Irish!  :stir: :whistling: