Tyre pressures vis-à-vis hypermiling

[KingHal]

Lancastrians vie with Yorkshiremen for who’s more tight with their money. Specifically, my father was a Mancunian and when he taught me to drive way back in 1970 drilled into me all the habits about smooth driving and anticipating traffic that are now purportedly specialist driving techniques. 
Notwithstanding being a boy racer in cars and on motorbikes I’ve always obsessed over my mpg. When I took on a high mileage job some years ago I bought a Honda Civic hybrid and became interested in hypermiling. I saved a lot of money over 80,000 miles. 
 

So … tyre pressures. Does anyone else “overinflate” their tyres? From memory I ran my Honda on 40+ psi (front tyres lasted 50,000 miles and rears 60,000). I’m currently inflating to 38 psi. I checked the pressures manually the day after collecting the car from the dealership and they were at 39 psi, which surprised me. I’m on Bridgestone run flats. [Anyone here remember the Bridgestone motorbikes in the 70’s?]

[ALAW]

Im a Yorkshireman Henry like you i was taught same smooth look ahead anticipate. Mine came with the Bridgestone runflats the TPM reads 2.3bar. Cant remember the motorbikes but my dad had a Vincent 500.

[KingHal]

14 hours ago, ALAW said:

Im a Yorkshireman Henry like you i was taught same smooth look ahead anticipate. Mine came with the Bridgestone runflats the TPM reads 2.3bar. Cant remember the motorbikes but my dad had a Vincent 500.

I’ve pumped the tyres to 2.6 bar. Slightly harsher ride but better fuel consumption.