Popped an inner tube at 100psi on a road wheel where I had not seated the tyre properly. The tube blistered out the side and went BANG!. I wasn’t even looking at it as the GF was talking to me. see, it was her fault. I’m surprised someone didn’t report gunfire, it was that loud.
Reminded me of inflating the pushchair tyres for the first time, never checked the psi (well would you?) happily attached to track pump in the garage, pump, pump, pump, pum..kerboom shredded tyre, ringing ears, unhappy wife.
Have never been asked to pump them up again. Result.
There was an apprentice killed in my local Stapletons a few yrs back.
Apparently he sat on the (horizontal) tyre which was being inflated, when the rim let go he hit the ceiling of the warehouse.
Health and Safety executive had a field day.
hehe. reminds me when I lived in a shared house in Hackney. I’d pumped up my tyres and put them on top of the wardrobe out of the way as there were bike bits all over my bedroom floor. Massive BOOOM at about 3am launched me outta bed and all my house mates running around the house freaking out! Non-jizz though. Surprised cops didn’t turn up as there had been a shooting in the pub down the road a week earlier.
I had one last year – 100psi road tyre, early one morning, Mrs still in bed me sorting bikes out to go out riding in the kitchen, both the cats wandering around & the tube let go.
Certainly woke me up, and the Mrs, and I didn’t see the cats for a while!
4 bar? Either your pump was lying or you looked at it wrong. Can’t see tyres exploding at 60psi.
Mine have on several occasions…with tyres that are supposedly good for 65psi.
Last one blew up in the middle of Purley and passers by thought someone had been shot. The one before blew in the back of the car and gave my poor missus a fright.
