Just put a new Schwalbe Rocket Ron on my Stans Flow rear rim a couple of days ago, and let sit to seal up. All seemed fine so I inflated to 55psi to go for a quick run to the local shops today. Not 200 meters down the road the tire blew completely off the rim – both beads totally off. This was supposed to be my race tire for Kielder, so now not sure if I can trust it. A few questions for the brains of STW:
1) Anyone ever have this happen with Schwalbe tires? This is probably my fourth set – I've never had problems, but admittedly I'm not using the UST versions – have I just been lucky to date?
2) With such a massive blowout should I trust the tires, or relegate to with-tubes use only? I'm concerned that the beads may have been loose to begin with, or else may have been stretched by the blowout.
3) or should I put this down to bad luck, refit the tire, go for a bedding in ride this weekend, don't pump it up to 55psi again, and just get on with it?