Tire Pressure

[indysteel]

While I stand amazed at the depth of TE knowledge and the number of women with strong technical degrees, unless one of you must-run-high-pressure people fess up to not being lawyers, but, instead are physicists or mechanical engineers....well, one last time for the masses (like the 100 pound woman I met who has been struggling to get her tires up to 135 pounds when she needs only 90)

Here's Michelin's guide:
http://www.michelinbicycletire.com/m...rpressure.view

And, the latest Jim Langely blog where he tells a reader named Pam (ok, fess up which one of you sent the question ) that at 220 pounds she'll need more than he and then references the Bicycle Quarterly article:
http://jimlangley.blogspot.com/2010/...nder-best.html

LOL. I'm a lawyer and my husband is an engineer. We both run under the indicated max for our tires.

[Norse]

Ok, I am a lawyer, my road tires are Conti GPs and, until about 1 year ago, I used to ride them at just under 120. I now ride at around 105-110 and did it just for the comfort factor - I do seem about 1/2 mph slower but I don't race and the older I get, the more comfort I want! Also, if it's raining, I will lower the psi to 90-100.

Interesting on the front/back difference. I sometimes go slightly lower on the rear for the comfort of my body. Sounds like I am doing that wrong.