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Pressures
- Thread starter Corsara
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you should put them on "always" between sessions and before your first session
Mr.Azim
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or they just won't admit they were the ones that screwed it up in the first place.
Tornique
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Any of you guys use this for monitoring?
http://www.orange-electronic.com/en/orange_retrofit_m202.html
I've used this on my street bike last year and its pretty good, shows PSI and Inner Temps. PSI tollerance is 1.5psi which seems fine. Ordered another for the track bike, just need to get it installed.
http://www.orange-electronic.com/en/orange_retrofit_m202.html
I've used this on my street bike last year and its pretty good, shows PSI and Inner Temps. PSI tollerance is 1.5psi which seems fine. Ordered another for the track bike, just need to get it installed.
1.5psi isn't fine at all. If your rear tire is 21psi cold (which mine is) then that's over 7% variance. Which is highly unacceptable in my opinion.
Spec says it's +/- 1psi, which is still unacceptable for a track tire.
Tornique
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I'm probably not at your level of competition, but I wouldn't think being 1 psi out would be a game breaker.
It's not about levels of competition. It's about a 7% variance. If your salary varied by 7% every 2 weeks you'd either be very happy or very ******. It's an unnecessary technology to me. Like so many other things getting bolted onto bikes nowadays.
Tornique
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Oh i see, so the 21psi cold would mean a greater variance when the tires warmed up. But keep in mind its always giving you updated psi measurements, so you always register within 1 psi of what it measures you at.
Snipes20
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I have to agree with fiery. When would you be looking at this device?? cause there is this new invention called a tire pressure gauge which can use 10 to 20 secs after you get off the track. and it would be more accurate than +/- 1psi if you get is tested.
Tornique
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Its more of a question of real time data for myself.
As you mentioned, you check your tires ten or twenty seconds after your pit in. Hey thats what I've been doing for the past two years and sure it works. I'm just finding myself wondering what is really happening during, thats my motivation. Could I be down a PSI/Celsius or two just from the trip down pit lane and the time until its checked? I simply don't know and would like to see.
This all came about last year during the late riding season, with the cooler weather I always gave myself allot of time to warm up the tires to make sure I had some heat in the tires. After installing this device I found that the tires didn't actually have enough time to get up to temp. This made me question a few things and having live data was pretty interesting. So, turning to track riding I thought being able to measure and prove against live data would be fun.
You do bring up a good point about "When would I look at it" though. Ideally this stuff is recorded, but I could at the very least get data right away when I'm heading into pit lane. I was just really wondering if anyone had experience with these sorts of devices or knew how to link it into the starlane devices.
Just make sure to also watch out for children, dogs, cats, girls, man, people giving vibrators as souvenirs, an English man eating potato chips and most importantly, a hot Venezuelan guy with an accent
These Venezuelan guys usually jump out behind you, once it's dark. Well, thats according to JayV anyway.
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