# Tire pressures.... how much is too much

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**Created:** [August 14, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tire-pressures-how-much-is-too-much/53244 "2008-08-14T13:43:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tire-pressures-how-much-is-too-much/53244/26 "2008-08-15T05:33:34Z")

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Send him this link too.

> **[Diminishing returns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns)**
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> In economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant. The law of diminishing returns states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant ("ceteris paribus"), will at some point yield lower incremental per-unit returns. The law of diminis...

Those 46 psi tires are going to be tons of fun on a cold morning in the winter.

Plus I’m sure the guy just used air, so those 46 psi cold might turn into, what, 50 psi hot? Isn’t that going to strain the shit out of the cords? I’d be watching the sidwalls for bubbles at 45-50 psi all day every day.

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