My bike tires are 26.5 psi, is it OK? They don't seem OK! Very skinny tires, too, I am not used to those?

They don't seem OK! Very skinny tires, too, I am not used to those They won't hold more than that (trying to fill them up at a gas station). Are the tires usable at all?

(No holes and they do hold that much, so maybe I did not fill them right somehow? ) Asked by :-) 7 months ago Similar questions: bike tires 26 psi skinny Sports & Recreation > Cycling.

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Really skinny road tires are inflated to over 100 PSI. Mountain bike tires are usually inflated to more like 40-50 psi. It should say on the side of the tire.26.5 PSI is a very low number.

If they're dropping to 26 PSI, then there is a hole in them somewhere. Holes can be hard to find. The best way is to partially inflate the tube and hold it under water.

Then you can see the bubbles. Not that it matters much. Tubes are cheap.

Don't bother patching. Get a new tube. Patching is for the road, if you don't have a spare (and you should have a spare, since it's hard to patch a tire on the road without a bucket of water to find the leak)..

Road / race bikes run much higher tire pressures than cars, so it can be that the compressor(air pump) at the gas station simply can't deliver any more. Another option is that you have Presta valves, and you aren't working them right. These have to be manually opened (there's a small locknut that has to be unscrewed, then the valve "burped") before they can be filled.

Get yourself a proper floor pump(with a pressure gauge) and inflate to the value listed on your tire's sidewall or slightly less. Html#presta.

The pressure should be stated on the side of the tire. If you can't put in more than 26.5 PSI something is wrong. Try another pump or get someone to help you.

Small tires can take high pressure while large tires don't need as much. Did you know that those large tires on dragsters only hold 3 PSI? .

I have an American racing bicycle. The tyres are supposed to inflate to 130 psi. You should buy a track pump.(There may be a different word for this in the USA.It is nothing like a normal hand pump that you carry on a bicycle.

This is an upright pump with a baseplate and hose leading from it. It sounds to me me as if you are putting cycle valves into a car valved sized pump and most of the air, if not all, is lost. Good luck to you.

You'll soon know if you are overinflating them. It is like a gunshot..

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