I burst a tire today!

[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.

[DebW]

It's easy to blow tires with a compressor if you're not careful. If you use a hand pump you can usually notice the tire starting to rise off the rim and have time to let some air out. At the shop I worked at in the 70s, we'd blow several tires every week. Some weeks we blew so many that when one mechanic headed for the compressor, the rest of us ran the other way. Where I work now we use hand pumps and I haven't had a single tire blow, though I've had some rise off the rim and had to let air out real fast. BTW, patched sewups can blow sometimes if the repair stitching isn't good enough.