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AJA 26: Sunglasses, Nitrogen, Tire Temperature, and Cyclocross

Marginal Gains Cycling Podcast, Presented by Silca

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How to Keep Your Tire Pressures Ahead of the Races

The rule of thumb that we use is you can expect one PSI increase for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit increase in ambient temperature. And so a lot of like a lot of parabro bays it can be zero you know one two degrees Celsius at six a.m. When the mechanics are out there getting all the bike set up and then of course by the time the race is really you know halfway through the race in the middle of the day you have a pretty big swing. But this is also a place where having really fast supple tires pays off again because what what's happening when the tire stiffens due to cold is they do generate heat in the tire from running on the road

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