I burst a tire today!

[lph]

Boy, did that ever make a bang

Luckily I wasn't on my bike at the time, just sitting on a bench chatting with some colleagues, with my bike laid down in the sun. Then an almighty POW!, like a gunshot, and it took several seconds until I figured it could be my bike. Yup, burst tire, and a tube in shreds!

[redrhodie]

Oh, isn't that exciting! I had that happen once. It took me and the cats a while to figure out what it was. I thought the sky was falling! In my case, it was because the tube was pinched.

[zoom-zoom]

A couple of years ago my hubby was doing a group ride with friends and DS and I went down to meet them at a nearby ice cream stand. While we were sitting there I thought I heard a gunshot, but it turns out one of the guy's tires had burst--same thing, the bike was just laying in the grass. Wow, was that one heckuva bang, though!

[OakLeaf]

Yikes!

I did that a couple of times in high school, before I realized I probably ought to use a tire gauge when I aired my tires from the gas station compressor and then parked it in the hot sun...

[PamNY]

Oh, exciting. I heard one explode last week. Very impressive. Glad you weren't on the bike.

[ridenread]

I had that happen last year. Actually had a guy in a truck turn around because he thought it was a gunshot and wanted to make sure I was ok.

[lph]

You guys are the best Nobody else but cyclists would go "Ooh, isn't that fun when that happens!"