I had only fitted the tyre the night before and done 5 miles of my 10 mile trip home when the tube popped out of the tyre. I couldn't have seated the tyre properly but I was surprised it made it 5 miles. New tyres coming from theotherjonv.
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Why does this always happen at the furthest point from home?
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Posted 8 months ago #
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"Farthest", dear boy.
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I take it the tyre is wrecked?
I had that happen at 15-20mph on the road. Locked the back wheel solid, and I skidded to a halt, with the rim scraping along the road and cutting a slit in the sidewall.
I binned the tyre and filed the rim smooth again!
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Oops! I thought it was only me who fitted things so appallingly badly that they immediately self-destructed
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I had that happen at 15-20mph on the road. Locked the back wheel solid, and I skidded to a halt, with the rim scraping along the road and cutting a slit in the sidewall
Exactly what happened, good job it wasn't the front wheel as I would have been over the bars. If you look closely you can see the rim thorough the tyre and the rip is about 30cm long. no chance of saving it
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I had a tube explode in the back of the car once and it took a 16" section of rim with it.
That was a very expensive trip.
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*checks innertubes*
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Checks tubless. Oh I dont have too
Posted 8 months ago # -
Same happened to me a few years ago, sidewall on a Spesh Enduro tyre let go on the most innocuous bit of bridleway, ground a nice flat on a brand new wheel on its first outing. B@ST@RD!
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Janesy - Member
oof did you really just say that?!Checks tubless. Oh I dont have too
Awaits "my bike exploded" thread from janesy in the coming week.
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PJM1974 - Member
I had a tube explode in the back of the car once and it took a 16" section of rim with it.I remember that happening to Stu_N around here
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=397875&Y=430545&A=Y&Z=120&ax=397955&ay=431630
about 8" of rim blown out, tyre ripped, Large section of innertube just *gone*. He was riding uphill as well at the time, unweighting to get up a smooth rock, not anything pointy or sharp. He had to carry back to Hebden Bridge. Bit of a cold sweat moment when we considered what would have happened if that had happened at speed on a downhill, or if the explosion had blown the rim into his legs...
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Come on don't let it be an our before someone posts it.
Jamie you disappoint me.
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After any catastrophic bike mechanical disaster I try to keep riding the broken, useless bike for another mile or so further away just so I can say it didn't happen at the farthest point of the ride.
I also keep looking for things after I have found them, so they weren't in the last place I looked.
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This happened while the bike was leaning up against the dining room wall as I was eating my porridge before a club run.
Tyre at 120psi and confined space makes a hell of a bang.
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Blew a foot long section of sidewall out on a Polaris challenge in the Dales a few years back. Fortunately I was only 500yds from the Tan Hill at the time.
That was the day I went to disc brakes, and haven't regretted it since.
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My tube exploded taking the tyre with it 90 miles into the Kielder 100 a couple of weeks ago resulting in a DNF :-/
Posted 8 months ago # -
Sidewalls on those Bontrager ACXs are so blimmin flimsy!
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