Fuel Saving Tips

another tyre tip

Monitor how your tyres are wearing. Most manufacturers recommend tyre pressures which give a softer and more comfortable ride ; as sure sign of this is tyres wearing on the edges but not in the middle. I run my tyres at the maximum recommended pressure to minimise the rolling resistance and even out the tyre wear. This is at the cost of ride quality but only to a very small degree.I also have more than 1 pressure gauge so that I can cross check between them every now and then.I have checked my gauges against a calibrated source and found that my most accurate gauge is the oldest. Most of the modern gauges seem to read a bit high; the worst being a gauge which was given out with a motorcycle magazine as a freebee. It definitely pays to know what your pressures really are and to remember that pressure does vary with ambient temperature.Check pressures regularly.