Death Valley XTC 2017
The road up from the Eureka Dunes to Steel Pass, Death Valley. At 700 feet the Dunes are the tallest in California. They also sport a quintet of sand beetles that are found only in this pile of ...
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profdant139 wrote:
Freep, the deflation improves traction, cushions the bumps a little, spreads the footprint of the tire, and provides lower pounds per square inch, which means that the tire "floats" instead of penetrating the soft soil. It's like the difference between a racing bike at 100 psi and a mountain bike at 20 psi.
Thanks. From the pictures it looked like the roads were more hard and rocky than soft and sandy. I've known about deflation for beaches but was a little mystified by doing it for rocky roads.
The reason this really caught my attention is that my wife took the TC up a mountain yesterday in AZ and on the way down today(narrow road, lots of switchbacks) got a huge rock lodged between the tires of the dually. She could hear air escaping and after struggling with a hammer she managed to dislodge the rock.
After limping back to civilization she drove to a service station and they pulled the tire(PSI dropped to about 50), checked it out, found no issues, re-inflated it and sent her on her way. Hours later, the pressure is holding.
