Inflation... How much pressure is too much?

blaisestation said:
Ash,
If you think the" West island" is expensive,you should try living in New Zealand.
Low wages and even more costs here for food and gas and 15% GST (vat).
Rents over $600 a week for a mouldy farm house and average house price over $1,000,000petrol nearly $3 a litre at the moment.
$8 for a f' n lettuce in the supermarket.
Rant over.
I brew my own beer !
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Rent and house prices are about the same here for average houses, but our fuel lately has been under $2 and I paid $2 for Premium fuel for the bike the other day normally its a bit more, but of course fuel goes up and down all the time here and when holidays and school holidays the price for fuel is always on the high side.
I only buy vege's that are in season and meat when on special, but I am growing a lot in my gardens now and I understand where you are coming from as I have a few Kiwi friends who moved here, we put sh*t on each other but we are all good mates and not bro's lol.
I stopped brewing my own beer a long time ago, I made a nice beer but I drank too much of it and became a fat greedy pig and put on too much weight from the extra sugar I was using lol.
Rant over, well I don't blame you at all and its not only happening here and NZ its happening all over the world, the rich get richer and us poor bastards suffer.
And I still can't get over why we got to pay world prices for our own recourses that we sell to the rest of the world, our leaders have sold us out for greed.
 
elefantrider said:
Linky to tube you bought?
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I inflate my Avons to recommended pressure cold and check that level before I go out.

If you are inflating your tires either below or above spec for standard street riding...not racing...street riding, can you help me understand the why's of doing so?
Not passing judgement or criticizing, just looking for a clearer understanding.
 
ashman said:
Rent and house prices are about the same here for average houses, but our fuel lately has been under $2 and I paid $2 for Premium fuel for the bike the other day normally its a bit more, but of course fuel goes up and down all the time here and when holidays and school holidays the price for fuel is always on the high side.
I only buy vege's that are in season and meat when on special, but I am growing a lot in my gardens now and I understand where you are coming from as I have a few Kiwi friends who moved here, we put sh*t on each other but we are all good mates and not bro's lol.
I stopped brewing my own beer a long time ago, I made a nice beer but I drank too much of it and became a fat greedy pig and put on too much weight from the extra sugar I was using lol.
Rant over, well I don't blame you at all and its not only happening here and NZ its happening all over the world, the rich get richer and us poor bastards suffer.
And I still can't get over why we got to pay world prices for our own recourses that we sell to the rest of the world, our leaders have sold us out for greed.
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Pretty sure the tubes are made in OZ

I have tires and like them. I've heard great things about all the stuff.
 
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concours said:
You're right, "back in the day", they weren't.

From the description in the link:

"

Condition: NOS (New Old Stock)- Some stems may have light surface rust but this will not affect usage."​

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I just look at the pictures...
 
I never worry about things which I cannot change. Due to Covid, most Australians have now seen the light and want to go there. Everything has to do with mindset - we can choose to be better than money-hungry Lemings. We cannot change greed - our whole social system is built upon gambling - whether it is investment, insurance, superannuation or poker machines. We just need to think differently. In the old days we had cars and motorcycles which we could build, repair and neglect. These days there is still wealth tied-up in houses - that is a target for greedy people.
 
concours said:
Pretty sure the tubes are made in OZ

I have tires and like them. I've heard great things about all the stuff.
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I do not think we make anything in Australia, these days. We have gone the same way as America. It is cheaper to have everything made in China and sell stuff to people who are under-paid in the service economy. - A downwards spiral with two results - top and bottom ?
In Australia, houses are now the most prized possessions. We have thousands of people arriving every month and a housing ponzi scheme. Development is always ahead of infrastructure. (wrong mindset - we do not plan ).
 
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Greed has existed among man since we started walking on 2 legs. Getting Zog to trade his wolly mammoth meat for a reasonable amount of stone axe heads was probably about as difficult as finding reasonably priced parts today. All that's changed is the manner in which we screw each other over.
 
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MikeG said:
Greed has existed among man since we started walking on 2 legs. Getting Zog to trade his wolly mammoth meat for a reasonable amount of stone axe heads was probably about as difficult as finding reasonably priced parts today. All that's changed is the manner in which we screw each other over.
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I can't even FIND any wolly mammoth meat!
This guy Zog.... where is he, and how do I get in contact with him?
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Lineslinger said:
I inflate my Avons to recommended pressure cold and check that level before I go out.

If you are inflating your tires either below or above spec for standard street riding...not racing...street riding, can you help me understand the why's of doing so?
Not passing judgement or criticizing, just looking for a clearer understanding.
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A pressure recommendation in a 1950s manual relates to a 1950s tyre.

Tyres made nowadays have more flexible sides and rely on a higher pressure to keep them in shape.

Thus, the “spec” in your manual may not be ideal for the tyre you just fitted to your old bike.
 
concours said:
I can't even FIND any wolly mammoth meat!
This guy Zog.... where is he, and how do I get in contact with him?
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Zog has gone into the machine tool business. He now makes his own precision carved stone ax heads and has gone vegan cause meat is murder....the more things change the more they stay the same.
 
Lineslinger said:
You can't dump 6 TRILLION dollars into a stabilized/functioning economy and believe there will be no economic repercussions.
Yet, they do.

They never learn.
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No one should believe that printing money and adding 3.5 trillion dollars to our debt is a good economic plan...
Most people don't realize how big a trillion is...


*1 million seconds is 11.5 days ago. You were less than 2 weeks younger


*1 billion seconds is 32 years ago. You were a much younger person


*1 trillion seconds is 32,000 years ago. Human writing still had 25,000 years before it would be invented. Primitive twisted rope will be invented in 4,000. years. We still have 20,000 years until the "younger dryas" where the earth suddenly cools and returns to a glacial wasteland for 1000 years.


So,... 3.5 trillion isn't like a few million dollars, or even a billion dollars, which are at least a somewhat understandable large numbers. 1 trillion is so large that it's a tipping point for economic optimism so things may begin to fall apart rather than evolve to absorb new debt... The architects of this folly will blame Regan, Trump, republicans, or someone other than the finance idiots who propose this ideological remedy which they fervently believe in... unto the detriment of all of us.


If People refuse to see, no one can make them see until it's too late...

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As far as tire inflation goes, the wider your rims are and the smaller your sidewall is, the more you can get away with lower tire pressures to increase your tire's contact patch area without getting slop in the handling due to sidewall flexing.... If you have WM2 rims, running lower tire pressures is a trade off where you get a better grip because of the surface area increase, but the lack of rigidity in the taller sidewall because of lower pressure adds to the "wiggly" feeling. Most people think that sloppy feeling is isolastic issues on a commando, when it can be a combination of wide tires, narrow rims, tall sidewalls and lower tire pressures....

Ask me how I know.... I battled sloppy handling for a while meticulously adjusting the isolastic gaps. Then I tried higher tire pressure and all the slop went away on the next test ride....
 
o0norton0o said:
No one should believe that printing money and adding 3.5 trillion dollars to our debt is a good economic plan...
Most people don't realize how big a trillion is...
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This year the total tax income of the US is expected to be 4.71T. The National debt is almost 34T. If you owed 7.2 times your income...

An amazing web page: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
 
I totally agree with all the high prices , it's gone crazy , but I got a good deal the other day , and saw some tyres that I wanted , I think they a normally $800 or more nzd and saw some on special at 514 each and they advertised 14.99 freight , which I thought was good , I withheld the buy now on the keyboard , and i rung a friend the following week , he said he could do around $ 365 +gst ,each , so I ordered two, wow , they arrived the next day , and as a bonus they both came with tubes which I'd imagine cost quite a bit , these are only Chinese cheap tyres but totally ok for my light usage. Total was 850 incl gst .😀
Inflation... How much pressure is too much?
 
The price of every thing is not going up, THE VALUE OF MONEY IS GOING DOWN!!!

That is the consequence of creating money out of thin air, as does our FED.

The dollar will soon be toast. When the dollar loses its status as the global reserve currency, the US will become a near third world country.

Slick
 
o0norton0o said:
No one should believe that printing money and adding 3.5 trillion dollars to our debt is a good economic plan...
Most people don't realize how big a trillion is...


*1 million seconds is 11.5 days ago. You were less than 2 weeks younger


*1 billion seconds is 32 years ago. You were a much younger person


*1 trillion seconds is 32,000 years ago. Human writing still had 25,000 years before it would be invented. Primitive twisted rope will be invented in 4,000. years. We still have 20,000 years until the "younger dryas" where the earth suddenly cools and returns to a glacial wasteland for 1000 years.


So,... 3.5 trillion isn't like a few million dollars, or even a billion dollars, which are at least a somewhat understandable large numbers. 1 trillion is so large that it's a tipping point for economic optimism so things may begin to fall apart rather than evolve to absorb new debt... The architects of this folly will blame Regan, Trump, republicans, or someone other than the finance idiots who propose this ideological remedy which they fervently believe in... unto the detriment of all of us.


If People refuse to see, no one can make them see until it's too late...

**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

As far as tire inflation goes, the wider your rims are and the smaller your sidewall is, the more you can get away with lower tire pressures to increase your tire's contact patch area without getting slop in the handling due to sidewall flexing.... If you have WM2 rims, running lower tire pressures is a trade off where you get a better grip because of the surface area increase, but the lack of rigidity in the taller sidewall because of lower pressure adds to the "wiggly" feeling. Most people think that sloppy feeling is isolastic issues on a commando, when it can be a combination of wide tires, narrow rims, tall sidewalls and lower tire pressures....

Ask me how I know.... I battled sloppy handling for a while meticulously adjusting the isolastic gaps. Then I tried higher tire pressure and all the slop went away on the next test ride....
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In WW2 the allies dropped currency over Germany, the idea being that dumping money into the systems would drive up inflation and destroy the economy.

Now we do it to ourselves to save the economy.

Can’t be right both ways…
 
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