Track pump pressure gauge

fungus_the_muffin_man

I bought a halfords track pump roughly £19. I pumped up my tyres today but I didn't go up to the required PSI.
Now my tyres should be 100psi but on the gauge I got them up to 60psi and stopped as I felt that my tyres wouldn't take any more.
Is it my fault for buying crappy halfords gear with dodgy pressure readings or can my tyres actually take more pressure than it feels like?

dennisn

I would hazard a GUESS and say that the gauge is correct. Within 5 or 10 psi. Is this your first track pump?

fungus_the_muffin_man

Yeah I've not had one before as with my MTB I never really wanted my thyres to bethat hard.
Now I've got a roadie, not wanting to worry about pinch p*******s I thought I best get them up nice and hard.
So I really can go higher with the pressure then?

dennisn

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Yeah I've not had one before as with my MTB I never really wanted my thyres to bethat hard.
Now I've got a roadie, not wanting to worry about pinch p*******s I thought I best get them up nice and hard.
So I really can go higher with the pressure then?

I would put in the pressure that is recommended for the tire and trust the pump. Road tires
require more pressure than MTB tires.

amaferanga

I used a mates Halfords track pump and it was incredibly difficult to get the gauge to 80psi even. So my guess would be either a crap pump (think his was one of the cheap Halfords pumps) or dodgy gauge. To me the tyre felt harder than it would be at just 80psi though.

MKk

funny, i was in the exact same situation about 2 hours ago. Just got back with my new shiny halfords £19 track pump. Started pumping away at my tires, got it up to 80psi and thought the tires were going to explode, I decided to risk it thought and take them upto the 100psi and went out for a little spin and the tires didnt explode! Result!

Mister W

Some track pumps are more difficult than others. I had to put most of my weight on my old one to get the tyres to more than 60-70psi but my current one takes hardly any effort to go well over 100psi. So, it's nothing to do with your tyres and everything to do with buying a cheap pump from Halfords... you get what you pay for!

Infamous

I bought this pump:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165661

about 18 months ago, always had trouble with it, finally bought a new pump (joe blow sport £30) yesterday and it's a world of difference. There was only 60 psi in both tyres, can now go up to 140 with relative ease.

fungus_the_muffin_man

Infamous wrote:

I bought this pump:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165661

about 18 months ago, always had trouble with it, finally bought a new pump (joe blow sport £30) yesterday and it's a world of difference. There was only 60 psi in both tyres, can now go up to 140 with relative ease.

Thats the one

Stevie Spokes

Just trust the gauge and pump it up to te recommended pressure. It wont blow up!