Just been putting a pair of Aspen tyres on some stans rims. They are often a bit of a fiddle but got them seated (so I thought) in the end. After a few minutes of holding pressure I deflated, popped a good cup and a half of stans fluid through the valve and reinflated. I thought I'd put quite a bit of pressure in just to force the fluid through all the little leaks - so 4 bar and nice and tight! I turned my back to fiddle with the frame and...BOOM!
Proper echo around the valley explosion. I turned around to a scene of devastation - a sad looking tyre and jizz everywhere - it looked like I'd just given oral relief to a sperm whale! No wheel to be seen though - I eventually found it on the shed roof! Bloody glad I hadn't got it into the frame and given it a quick once around the block when it went!
3 neighbours came rushing around thinking we had had a gas explosion (which is weird as we don't have gas out in the sticks!) and were slightly bemused by the sight of dressing gown clad freak (just back from ride and could not be arsed to get dressed after shower) covered in harry monk clambering on his shed roof!
at the mental image....then....
