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That might be why I send so much on light bulbs. Posted 1 year ago # -
Aspens are not renown for their tubless prowess but work nicely once tamed!
One of the best eXCeption tyres when it comes to getting them on, no bother at all for me. Seems to a be a new-generation Maxxis thing, as all the tyres from last year and this go on dead easy (xmarks, aspen, monorail, rendez, ignitor).
Aspens whilst great tyres are utterly cack tubeless, the side walls are way too thin.
Never had this problem, despite most of my riding being races with plenty of pointy rocks. The eXCeption sidewalls are thin, and you will see the threads after a single muddy race, but nothing to worry about.
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Great thread - oral relief to a sperm whale
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Hehe.. very funny thread
Only one I have is when a mate was pumping tyres up in his garage with a foot pump, we were all chatting away and hadn't noticed that the tyre wasn't seated and the tube was bulging out resulting in a fairly modest (by the above standards) blammo. We could still hear mostly, but it was a hell of a shock since we were not expecting it.I thought I'd put quite a bit of pressure in just to force the fluid through all the little leaks
Doesn't need it. What it needs is a fair while spent being sloshed around. Slosh it around for a few mins, then ride it about, but you need to take it on an actual ride shortly afterwards otherwise it'll deflate overnight.
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The bang you get from these tyres blowing off the rim is quite incredible!
I had an S-Works Sauserwind 2Bliss tyre blow off at approx 60psi - I was in my basement at the time! It was honestly the closest I can imagine to a Call of Duty style stun grenade going off in a room! My eyes were completely shaken for a good 15secs, I had no hearing bar a very, very high pitch whine for about 2mins and the shockwave raised every available particle of dust in the basement so it was pretty 'cloudy'. My poor wife was sat in the living room approx 7ft directly above the scene of the explosion so she thought the acopolypse had arrived aswell!
Laughing aside i'm very releived my hearing wasn't damaged and no debris hit me in the eyes as the tyre was shredded. I haven't inflated a mtb tyre above 40psi since... :-O
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Don't they have to inflate truck tyres in cages because so many kwik fit fitters have been killed?
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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.
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Complete idiot! ROFL!!!
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AI!
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this one's got some merit - beats soapy water, anyway;
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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.Posted 1 year ago # -
Had a tyre blow on my Brompton. In the middle of the night whilst we were asleep
Scared the bejesus out of us!Anyway, Air compressor & marigolds = neighbours coming round to see if we're OK after the gas explosion
Posted 1 year ago # -
LOL, great thread, thanks OP et al, I'm no way going tubeless after reading this, I'll put up with the odd puncture!!!
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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.Posted 1 year ago # -
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.
Posted 1 year ago # -
A very funny post! Let's have more like it!
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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!
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Brilliant!
:lol:
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...Mrs still in bed me sorting bikes out to go out riding in the kitchen...
big kitchen!
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Another lol here, been some good threads today cheers
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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.
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