1100GS_rider wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone (well, except for that one particularly useless post)
>> for the suggestions, all such useful info. Do they recommend lowering
>> air pressure in the tires when on the desert dirt roads? Dune tours on
>> Cape Cod, near where I live, do this. It reduces gives more traction
>> to the vehicles.
>
> You would lower tire pressure to drive on soft sand. Many (most?) of
> the backcountry roads in the west are rocky and hard packed dirt more
> than they are soft sand.
If you do lower the pressure, I'd recommend not going below 20psi. Much
lower and you really increase the risk of "breaking" the bead on a
tubless tire. For sand driving, you really should have tires with tubes.
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