Hi,
Want your guys views here - yesterday i did some maintinence on my bike. Part of that maintinence meant patching a puncture and re pumping my tyres. No problem right?
The tyre says to pump them upto 110 PSI, so i proceeded to do so, but by the time i got to 90 PSI i was knackered and was struggling to push air in.
So i left it at 90 PSI which is 20 below what the tyre recommended.
Biked to work today - no problem.
On the way home, i got half way gome and i stopped at my mates (on the route) to talk to him about a issue he was hving at work.
Just sitting in the front room, bike was against wall then after 10 minutes or so we just haerd an almighty BANG.
Looked around after being frightened to death (well almost), i found my front tyre is now flat?
My question is why did my front tyres innertube just explode like that when it was infact 20 PSI below rated? It instantly deflated my tyres, and if i was on the road when this happened i would have been sure to have swerved and had a nasty crash.
This is a racing bike by the way with those thin tyres.
Upon further inspection, i took the inner tube out, and found a 4MM hole about 10 CM from the tube valve.
Any ideas?
My inner tube was a Slime self healing inner tube (althrough i dont think its giong to seal this hole somehow lol).
ill be lucky if i can get a patch to work on this, but im not sure i trust a patch any more
Want your guys views here - yesterday i did some maintinence on my bike. Part of that maintinence meant patching a puncture and re pumping my tyres. No problem right?
The tyre says to pump them upto 110 PSI, so i proceeded to do so, but by the time i got to 90 PSI i was knackered and was struggling to push air in.
So i left it at 90 PSI which is 20 below what the tyre recommended.
Biked to work today - no problem.
On the way home, i got half way gome and i stopped at my mates (on the route) to talk to him about a issue he was hving at work.
Just sitting in the front room, bike was against wall then after 10 minutes or so we just haerd an almighty BANG.
Looked around after being frightened to death (well almost), i found my front tyre is now flat?
My question is why did my front tyres innertube just explode like that when it was infact 20 PSI below rated? It instantly deflated my tyres, and if i was on the road when this happened i would have been sure to have swerved and had a nasty crash.
This is a racing bike by the way with those thin tyres.
Upon further inspection, i took the inner tube out, and found a 4MM hole about 10 CM from the tube valve.
Any ideas?
My inner tube was a Slime self healing inner tube (althrough i dont think its giong to seal this hole somehow lol).
ill be lucky if i can get a patch to work on this, but im not sure i trust a patch any more