I burst a tire today!

[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.

[ninerfan]

I had a tire burst a couple of years ago and was actually on my bike at the time . Fortunately I was approaching a stop sign on a relatively quiet street so my speed was pretty low. I shudder to think what would have happened if I had been going at a good clip. Glad you weren't on your bike!

[Atlas]

My partner is a bike mechanic and I think he's done some permanent damage to his hearing with all the tubes he's heard pop. We were just talking about it this morning because a co-worker of his is recently back from Iraq and doesn't fill up tires to the right pressure because he gets upset over the gunshot noise if they explode.