TKC 80 - Tyre pressure
 

For road sections what tyre pressures are suitable for a TKC'80's ?
It feels to me like the 2 bar mark is a tad to hard

allo mate, i have been advised (by a certain lady who knows) that 30psi is the ideal pressure. i have found it to be spot on. i did run them slightly softer (25f 28r ) during sat afternoon/sunday in the lakes and found that to be great in the wet but a wee bit soft on dry roads.

if useing on the road I run them at 28 psi front and 26 in the rear.

I do 30psi front and 33 back. Good for dry road but a tad slippery for wet, we are talking onroad here. Notice the front loses air more often than the back. Don't know why, but I could usually tell by riding and go pump it up.

I know nuffink... but as Pete says, I've found that 30psi seems to work well on road, and down to 25psi when off road and/or the monsoon conditions we had at the weekend x

Obviously if you are a big fella (like Pete) or carrying luggage, you may want correspondingly more in the rear to compensate, as he did...

xxx

Sorry, I heard yesterday; the compound of this tyre is recently changed and it's wearing faster and when wet it's loosing grip. Is this true?

I've just got a TKC80 rear in combination with the TW301 front. The TKC is more alive in the dirt then the tw rear was (drifting is much easier with the tkc I think). Because the tire is new, I'm riding a bit carefull on asphalt. The TW bites a bit more in the dirt, but after 2500 km's, Its going down in the dirt, but still far okay on asphalt.
I don't know about the tkc compound change.
Its to early to give my opinion about the tkc. But the TW was fine (I even had more confidence on wet asphalt with the tw, then with the original tourances).
Next week, I'll go on a trip to the Jura Mountains. Hope the TKC will surprice me in a positive way.
After all, tires and confidence, its 75% between the ears.