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!"

[buffybike]

At least you weren't riding it! That happened to a friend on a group ride...he suffered a broken scapula and three broken ribs.

Was it the heat from the bike lying in the sun that caused it??

[Biciclista]

are your ears still ringing?

[PamNY]

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

I tried to tell a few non-cycling friends about the tire burst I witnessed. Major conversation fail.

[kmehrzad]

I was putting air in my bike tire using a compressor. At the time I was INCHES away from the tire when the tube burst. My neighbor ran over when he saw me grab my ear. I literally could not hear for a good 15 minutes out of one ear after experiencing the blown tube.

[MartianDestiny]

I blew one once while trying to mount new tires. Pinched the tube and so of course *POW!!!* in the middle of the living room with all the roommates around. They, of course, didn't find it near as amusing as I did.

[loopybunny]

Is it wrong that I actually laughed a little reading this?

[malkin]

I'm in the Big Bang Club too!

I was riding along and the noise scared me so I clipped out and jumped off of my bike. It took me a beat to figure out that I had not been shot and then another beat to figure out that I wouldn't just be getting back on my bike to ride home.

Fortunately, home was only a block away.


(I was 5 when JFK was assassinated, and I sort of have it in mind that people are shot much more often than they really are.)

[Bike Chick]

This happened once on a group ride to a cyclist I was standing next to. I about jumped out of my pad!!! It's amazing how loud it is and so unexpected.