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Tue 26 Apr 2005 01:04

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - THe Growler

I have this wretched Kawasaki that can't speak English.

Its tyre pressures front and rear are supposed to be 200 KpA. Can anyone translate that for me into real money, i/e PSI?

TIA.

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 01:16

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - mfarrow

You also have a Kawasaki that can't capitalise SI units correctly.

1 psi = 6.89 kPa

For the record, 1 bar = 100 kPa.

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Mike Farrow

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 01:19

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - Dynamic Dave

1 psi = 6.895 kPa

So in old money it's 29.006526468455402465554749818709 psi
Call it 29 psi for cash ;o)

I also found this handy convertor whilst googling.

www.hycal.com/unitconverter.htm

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 02:13

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - THe Growler

Well, thanks all. As for bars, the only ones I know or are interested in are those which have happy hours 3-8 p.m. and have nothing to do with tyres ;+)

29 psi it is then. Sanity returns. I can keep my trusty pressure gauge in defiance of any EU directives.

I'd actually guessed from past experience that on a bike like that 30 front and 36 back (with a back-rider) would be about right and that's what I was running.

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 11:05

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - martint123

Use the Google converter - type 200 kilopascals in psi into the search window and get:-

200 kiloPascals = 29.0075475 pounds per square inch

Martin

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 19:41

Tyre pressures - what is KpA? - THe Growler

Ah, thanks again: a "kilopascal" no less. My education advances apace. Sounds like a Belgian hairdresser.

If it's 29 psi why can't they say so? I suppose it would deprive all those empty suits of reasons for warming their seats until inflation-proof pensionable age if they talked in terms Joe Six-Pack chaps like me could understand.

Now then, where's that 7/16" wrench? I know I put it somewhere.

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