[Closed] Whoa! Now THAT'S never happened before!!

It has to me! Locked the wheel up and the rim sliced through the tyre and ground itself a nice flatspot on the road!

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By the way, it happened because you didn't fit the tyre correctly, most likely... 😳

your wheel has spat its intestines out!

'Twas quite exciting!!

Is your seatpost bent?

Wouldn't have happened with tubeless.

Is your seatpost bent?

Nope. Optical illusion!

Have you fitted a 36" tube to a 29" wheel?

No. Although granted it does look like one of those tubes you use on the flumes at Waterworld...

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Something similar happened to a mate when he pringled his wheel. He got up from the crash, picked up his bike and then a couple of seconds later the tyre popped off the rim and the tube started bulging out. I think I tried to get to its valve before it burst but I was too slow and instead my ears were painfully close to the BANG.

Yeah, my inner tube escaped from my tyre (just like that, without bursting) when I hadn't seated it properly.

I run slightly higher pressures now.

Same happened to me last year:
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As I've progressed from newbie and bought better bikes and tyres I too went tubeless and made the mistake of going back to Lee Quarry on my 29er with Bonty rims and tyres running tubeless and the front tyre dismounted the rim at the worst possible moment, at the end of the video....

I don't know who this is, but I think its hilarious 😀

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best JRA thread ever!...glad nothing really nasty happened to ya tho...how's the rim?

oh and p.s. what tires are those?

Nope. Optical illusion!

A lens with distortion isn't an illusion!

😆 How do these happen?

What tubes for tyre prolapsing?

oh and p.s. what tires are those?

Bonty XR3's. Very fast, but well sketchy in the wet!

I like the autumnal colour theme to your bike.

i take it all these tyres were kevlar beaded?

Girlfriend did that to her tyre last year, hadn't told me tube was full of slime sealent, it burst when i tried to work it free from the frame, how she laughed

xr3 29ers go lovely with a ghetto tubeless and at low pressures they're very good in the wet n sloppy!

get bodging

Not me but was riding with them at the time
Both folding panaracer fire xc's (quite loose fitting) on mavic 317/XM317 rims (not that tight fitting either)
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while climbing, spat a rock out to the side

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after landing a drop

Ooops 😆

Happened to me in a race at FOD years ago - I was leading too but Nicole Cooke's mum sped past as I was fixing it 😥 Damned Macaw coloured tyres 👿

mama d , can you remember the poster for the macaw coloured tyres.
the one with all the ladies bottoms with the various coloured bikini bottoms on?

😉

Yes I can Ton 😳 😆 . Actually I still have a pair of purple ones (tyres, that is) in the garage - maybe it's time to ebay them with a 'retro' tag.

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Sorry for the, er, hijack 😆

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brilliant.

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By the way, it happened because you didn't fit the tyre correctly, most likely..

Strangely enough, I think not. There seemed to be a three inch gash in the sidewall of the tyre that I reckon compromised the integrity. I had to patch it with an empty gel tube!

Come to the Big Bike Bash and enjoy a pint of Team Bullheart beer and you won't be worried for long.

That's right, Team Bullheart beer will be at the BBB