dumb question

[madisongrrl]

I've run in the low 30s on my clinchers (rated to 40psi min, I think) and into the 20s on my tubulars. And I'm a big girl.

I ran my clinchers at 37psi this weekend. It worked well with the course. I'm not sure how I would feel dropping it below 35, but I'll have to experiment. I really wanted to run them lower than 37psi, but I was too chicken. One of my teammates sometimes drops her tire pressure to 28-30psi and doesn't have problems with flats. I really like the feel of riding on a lower tire pressure, but I fear the DNF too much.

[spokewench]

Some of our courses in Flagstaff are way to rocky for running really low pressure - they are not typical smoother cyclocross courses so typically I can't run real low pressures -
but since it looks like the only cyclocross this year will be down south in Tucson and Phoenix (whoever heard of cyclocross without snow??? ); I'll probably be able to run higher air pressures