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Air shrinks when it's cold. Your car tires lose pressure, but have enough volume that the tires don't go flat.
Bike tires don't have the storage volume, so they go flat.
Or, you could just have a slow leak.
Because the oxygen molecules in the tire arent moving as fast as they would be in the heat. The heat causes friction between atoms.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoDepends. Best is if you can store the bike hanging, w/o weight on the tires, and then let the air out. If you have to store it on the tires it's better to have enough air in the tires to keep them from deforming too much.
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∙ 14y agoNothing much. When it gets warmer the pressure will increase. In extreme cases it can cause tires to blow due to overpressure.
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∙ 12y agoThe cold causes the air pressure to reduce. Heat would cause it to increase.
Cold air is more dense, heated air expands.
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∙ 9y agoThe cold causes the air in the tyre to contract, so apparently softening the tyre pressure.
keelan Jonhson
but what happens if you try to pump it up with air
Dinith Subasinha-21
because its cold
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