I had this happen once. My bike was up on my roof rack on my car and I was at the local trailhead getting ready to start a ride. It was an explosive sound -- and yes, it sounded like a shotgun blast. There were a bunch of other people at the trailhead and everyone jumped and we all were looking around to see what happened. I got my bike down from the rack and found the blown-out tire. The tube had a long 4 or 5 inch gash in it.The guys at my shop suggested it was probably a case where the tube was pinched between the bead and the rim. Probably up there in the sun, the pressure could have increased enough to make it blow?
Crazy stuff! I now inflate my tires part-way, then go all around squeezing the tire from the rim to make sure I don't have it pinched. Kyle Brooks Akron, Ohio On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 9:10:24 AM UTC-5, Kevin Lindsey wrote: > > So I inflated the 50mm Schwalbe Marathons on my Hunq to 60 psi (rear) and > 40 psi (front) last night and wheeled it into the kitchen in preparation > for what would have been my morning commute. About twenty minutes later, > there was a deafening "bang" from the kitchen; I honestly thought a handgun > had gone off or something had detonated in the microwave, and my left ear > was ringing for a half hour afterward. Long story short, the Schwalbe > inner tube on my rear tire had popped, shredded, and actually blew the tire > off the rim; anyone who uses Marathons knows how hard it is to get those > things on the rim in the first place, and it's sobering to think of how > much energy must have been released to unseat one. Fortunately, aside from > screwing up my commute and throwing my dogs' digestive systems into > reverse, however, there was no other apparent damage. > Anyone know generally what causes a tube to blow up like that? It wasn't > over-inflated, probably only had fifty or sixty miles on it, was the > correct size for the tire, and generally should have lasted for several > hundred miles. My son has had this problem with some Specialized tubes > recently, but the Schwalbe products are generally of a higher quality, but > now I'm wondering whether there's a QC issue at the factories in, I assume, > China. > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > Kevin > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
