Tyre suddenly deflates whilst bike is parked up

[johnnyb47]

I'm sure this happened to me a few years back, but I was just lazing around watching the tv when all of a sudden i heard this loud hissing noise coming from the kitchen.
My first thoughts were it's a water leak and flew off the sofa in a blind panic looking to were the noise was coming from. Eventually i tracked it down to my bikes rear tyre slowly releasing air under the mud guard which made it sound alot worse.
Panic over, an inner tube is a lot cheaper to fix than a dreaded water leak that i thought it was 💦🤣

 

[fossyant]

Wait till they go bang in your kitchen.

 

[toffee]

Wait till they go bang in your kitchen.

Its when they go bang when you riding them that really shake you.

 

[fossyant]

Its when they go bang when you riding them that really shake you.

I've had it once on a wet road, sounded like a gun going off, with a cloud of 'spray' !

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

I had a tub blow up on me on the start line of the Nat Champ 50 mile TT.
Timekeeper was counting down from 10. As soon as he got to 3 my rear tub blew out.
A 300 mile round trip for nothing.
I left the line so I was given a DNF rather than a DNS.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I covered myself with coffee at the start of an Audax once when the tyre of a parked bike spontaneously - and very loudly - blew out behind me. Quite what caused it to go pop I have no idea.

The bike didn’t want to do the audax so self destructed

 

[fossyant]

Just wait till a tubeless tyre explodes in your house !

 

[HarryTheDog]

A long time ago I tried out slime tubes on my MTB, I was driving along on a hot sunny day with the bike in the back of the estate car. The heat must have turned the slime to steam. Suddenly there was a very loud bang and the interior of the car got covered in green slime. Made me jump.... a lot.

 

[cougie uk]

I'm sure this happened to me a few years back, but I was just lazing around watching the tv when all of a sudden i heard this loud hissing noise coming from the kitchen.
My first thoughts were it's a water leak and flew off the sofa in a blind panic looking to were the noise was coming from. Eventually i tracked it down to my bikes rear tyre slowly releasing air under the mud guard which made it sound alot worse.
Panic over, an inner tube is a lot cheaper to fix than a dreaded water leak that i thought it was 💦🤣

Do you have a cat ?

I was foolish enough to leave my bike in the kitchen overnight and the cat used it as a scratch post.

Those claws are like little hypodermic needles.

 

[johnnyb47]

I do have a cat when you come to think of it. (He's looking very guilty as we breath)
The tyres are virtually new but the tubes are getting on a bit, so it's most probably perished.. I'll look at it tomorrow once the boilers had it's yearly check up

 

[Drago]

I'm sure this happened to me a few years back, but I was just lazing around watching the tv when all of a sudden i heard this loud hissing noise coming from the kitchen.
My first thoughts were it's a water leak and flew off the sofa in a blind panic looking to were the noise was coming from. Eventually i tracked it down to my bikes rear tyre slowly releasing air under the mud guard which made it sound alot worse.
Panic over, an inner tube is a lot cheaper to fix than a dreaded water leak that i thought it was 💦🤣

Lesson learned - check for land mines before parking the bike.

 

[T4tomo]

Likely to be a bit of flint imbedded in the tyre, and change of temp or just timing that it chose that moment to pierce the tube.

 

[rogerzilla]

Just wait till a tubeless tyre explodes in your house !

Is it like when Mr Bean tries to paint a room with a firecracker in a tin of emulsion?

 

[fossyant]

Is it like when Mr Bean tries to paint a room with a firecracker in a tin of emulsion?

Apparently, but very sticky

 

[overmind]

I fixed a tyre on a friends bike yesterday evening. I could not believe the state of the wheel generally. A sheared off spoke nipple. The wheel underneath the rim tape was full of a kind of yellow grit. The wheel was filthy. The tyre was all stretched and the sidewalls were rotting.

I replaced the spoke nipple and re-trued the wheel and replaced both inner-tube and tyre.

I wonder what percentage of bikes are in a similar state?