{"id":808,"date":"2021-10-01T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:27:07","slug":"psi-shootout-on-gravel-25-vs-35-vs-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/psi-shootout-on-gravel-25-vs-35-vs-30\/","title":{"rendered":"PSI Shootout on Gravel &#8211; 25 vs 35 vs 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PSI Shootout on Gravel - 25 vs 35 vs 30\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vFDKGPI3A4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m no scientist but this was a fun experiment. I mapped out a loop along the Watauga River outside Valle Crucis, NC that consists of 10 miles of gravel of varying sizes and 3.5 miles of hardtop with 600 feet of elevation change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran three laps back to back to back at 3 different psi settings and compared the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started at 25 psi since I had been running 35 psi for a couple of days, then jumped all the way up to 35 and on the last lap brought it back to 30 psi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tires I used were 650b x 47 WTB Ventures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results were not surprising BUT it was really interesting to feel the differences over the same terrain in such short order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would recommend this experiment to anyone trying to dial in tire pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no scientist but this was a fun experiment. I mapped out a loop along the Watauga River outside Valle Crucis, NC that consists of 10 miles of gravel of varying sizes and 3.5 miles of hardtop with 600 feet of elevation change. I ran three laps back to back to back at 3 different psi settings and compared the &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/psi-shootout-on-gravel-25-vs-35-vs-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,6,4,9],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-gravel-bike","tag-gravel-bikes","tag-gravel-cycling","tag-gravel-grinding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graveltraveldirt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}