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Originally Posted by Baby Huey
I read that someone was riding a motocross course with a Hawk and he aired his tires at 26 PSI and it worked really well.
I also wonder if the Hawk's reputation of eating inner tubes comes from too much air pressure?
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MXers run knobbies, and soft knobbies grab the dirt better, and they run rim locks to avoid slipping the tire and ripping apart the inner tube.
20psi is way too low for a dual sport tire, especially on pavement. Dual sport tires will slide around on loose materiel like gravel, and wash out easily. Reducing pressure can help (down to maybe 25psi), but if you do not have rim locks, running low pressure is a little risky. Not so much of a risk since we are talking 14hp! It is unlikely to be able to spin the rim and rip up the tube!
But a pinch flat is a possibility with such low pressure.
