Bicycle Quarterly 15 Tire Drop Chart

This chart which comes from frank berto measures what s called tire drop.

Bicycle quarterly 15 tire drop chart. Tire drop of 15. He then averaged the values and drew his chart for a tire drop of 15. Rider bike lb. Much of it depends on the tires you run.

It uses the graph from the bike quarterly. This tire has too little air it s squishy and hard to turn. The chart below shows the pressures. The debate about 23 v 25 tyres i found a tyre pressure calculator which tells you what you should be running based on 15 tyre drop.

Road bicycle tire pressure calculators using jan heine 15 drop and michelin chart methods. Having read the debate about 23 v 25 tyres i found a tyre pressure calculator which tells you what you should be running based on 15 tyre drop. Berto measured the tire drop above. This tire has too much air it loses energy bouncing.

Rhône alpes france piedmont italy makes this page possible 15 drop method weight measured at wheel. Fortunately frank berto already has done it for us. How much the tire deflects for a given load and pressure for dozens of tires. Road bicycle tire pressure calculators.

Perhaps not coincidentally 15 is the tire drop recommended by several tire manufacturers 2 tire drop is the amount the bicycle is lowered as the tires deform under the load of bike and rider. The 15 as desirable tire drop was based on the recommendations of several tire manufacturers but not on actual testing. Tire drop measuring tire drop is not easy. When this chart was first published which was more than 20 years ago it was determined that the tire drop should be about 15 percent.