Can you describe a blowout?

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Now that I've fixed my compressor and I can get the pressure in my tires above 40 PSI, I'm getting
a little nervous about being so close to them as I inflate them, just because they're a little old
(but no damage or dry rot). But maybe just because I've never experinced a tire blowout. So,
anyone who's ever blown a tire as they were inflating it, what's the potential for harm?

A bike tire? Your ears.

- Brian "BLAM!" Huntley

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Now that I've fixed my compressor and I can get the pressure in my tires above 40 PSI, I'm getting
a little nervous about being so close to them as I inflate them, just because they're a little old
(but no damage or dry rot). But maybe just because I've never experinced a tire blowout. So,
anyone who's ever blown a tire as they were inflating it, what's the potential for harm?

BANG!

Mark Lee

Blowout.

Twice.

Both times a gentle hiss followed by a VERY LOUD BANG such that people turned to see what the noise was and my wheel rim was instantly an inch and a quarter closer to the road.

Seamus who? said:

Blowout.

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Twice.

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Both times a gentle hiss followed by a VERY LOUD BANG such that people turned to see what the
noise was and my wheel rim was instantly an inch and a quarter closer to the road.

If this occurred twice, I assume you must have some explanation for
it. I find curious that the blowout was preceded by audible leaking. What did you find after the
blowout? Did the tire come off the rim or did the casing burst, and how did this first make a
hissing sound. Please expand on this.

Jobst Brandt [email hidden] Palo Alto CA

Mark Lee at [email hidden] wrote on 6/16/03 10:57 PM:

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BANG!

or

.... BANG! riiiiiiinggggriiiiiinnnngggriiiiingggg

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Now that I've fixed my compressor and I can get the pressure in my tires above 40 PSI, I'm getting
a little nervous about being so close to them as I inflate them, just because they're a little old
(but no damage or dry rot). But maybe just because I've never experinced a tire blowout. So,
anyone who's ever blown a tire as they were inflating it, what's the potential for harm?

This happened to me once while inflating a tire with a frame pump. There I was, sitting cross-legged
on the ground with the wheel in my lap. I remember that for an instant before it blew I could
actually see the growing bulge, but I had very little time to get alarmed before, as others have
mentioned, BANG. It was quite loud.

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This happened to me once while inflating a tire with a frame pump. [snip] It was quite loud.

If you want _really_ loud, try having the rim give way while you're inflating.. To be fair, I did
know the rim was wearing out, it was pretty grooved from mud getting caught in the brake blocks,
etc, but I was still surprised to be inflating the tire, hear an almighty bang -- and once my ears
had stopped ringing, there was a 12" or so rip down the length of the side of the rim.

The tire itself was fine, amazingly -- the innertube less so..

-- dan

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anyone who's ever blown a tire as they were inflating it, what's the potential for harm?

Although it will sting a bit if you happen to have your hand on the precise spot that blows out, the
skinned knuckle you may get dismounting the wheel would be a more serious injury. IOW, no big deal.

Regards, Bob Hunt

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If this occurred twice, I assume you must have some explanation for
it.

Summer holiday tours 12 months apart.

Nutrack Nomad tyres, ragged hole in the inner tubes, 3" split in the tyre casing where it meets the rim.

Incompatability between tyre and rim perhaps.

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Now that I've fixed my compressor and I can get the pressure in my tires above 40 PSI, I'm
getting a little nervous about being so close to them as I inflate them, just because they're
a little old (but no damage or dry rot). But maybe just because I've never experinced a tire
blowout. So, anyone who's ever blown a tire as they were inflating it, what's the potential
for harm?

This happened to me once while inflating a tire with a frame pump. There I was, sitting
cross-legged on the ground with the wheel in my lap. I remember that for an instant before it blew
I could actually see the growing bulge, but I had very little time to get alarmed before, as
others have mentioned, BANG. It was quite loud.

Happens every now and then here, I hate inflating 110 psi road tires, especially when they aren't
new. They always seem to let you get to 105
psi before they blow. Then you can't hear for a little while. guy I knew once made a compress out of
an old fridge compressor. Well I don't know how high those will go but they certainly don't cut
off at 110 psi for safety like a shop compressor does. He put it on a mtn. bike tire and walked
away for just a few minutes. The tire went off like a bomb and the wheel hit the ceiling, the rim
was tacoed, the metal bead was separated form the carcass about 3/4 of the way around and my ears
were ringing for hours even though I was outside the garage.
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