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Having just checked on the Avon Tyres website and confirmed what Avon recommends for its RoadRiders in the Classic's sizes I shall give the recommended pressures a try i.e. 27/29. I find it hard to believe that these are so significantly higher than the ones quoted in the owners handbook and w/shop manual, but on balance I think I'd prefer to go with the tyre manufacturer's recommendations. It seems to me that RE is indeed still quoting the kind of pressures that were typical in the 50s and 60s (I also checked the handbook I still have for my old 1970 A65 Lightning: 18/19, so contrary to what some have said the pressures back then were indeed a lot lower than they are now, typically less than 20psi, and yes, I started riding in the 60s and remember these lower pressures). FWIW the recommended pressures for my C5 are still a lot lower than for the radials on my modern Triumph, which has cast wheels and tubeless tyres. There you go.

Are the rider's handbook and workshop manual to be trusted for anything, I wonder? I also wonder why, given the strong likelihood that most owners service their bikes themselves and that the EFI has now been around for seven years or so there is no Haynes Manual. I for one would buy it as Haynes Manuals, although not perfect, do at least show how to remove individual bits of the bike, rather than how to dismantle the whole thing, which is all the RE official manual does. Oh, and a Haynes would also use the correct terminology, not some weirs Asian hybrid. Mi