How To Pump Up Road Bike Tires

All tires have either schrader or presta valves and most bontrager pumps are compatible with both.
How to pump up road bike tires. Seat the tire properly while you inflate it. Check to see if your pump is compatible with the type of valve on your tires. It should list the pounds per square inch psi range that your tire can safely handle. How to pump a road bike tire adam magaña.
Typically a road tire can go between 80 and 130 psi. It also saves the pro mechanics from having to pump up 18 individual tyres on the bikes and all the spares every morning at a big race like the tour de france. Inflating the tyre the first step is. Pump up the tire.
With a floor pump place one foot on each side of the stand grip the handle and pump it up and down. This is especially important with high pressure road. To inflate bike tires with a schrader valve start by finding the recommended psi range located on the side of your tires. How to pump up a bike tyre bikeexchange workshop series duration.
Every bontrager tire has a recommended pressure range right on the sidewall of the tire. Next unscrew the rubber cap from the valve connect a bicycle pump to the valve and inflate the tire to your recommended psi range. After that remove the pump and screw the cap back on the valve. This is a little trick that i have been using over the years to help tubeless tyres inflate that are often too loose on the rim.
The global cycling network puts you in the centre of the action. If your pump isn t you can purchase an adapter at your local bike shop. This method negates the need to increase rim tape which reduces the. Unsubscribe from adam magaña.