Does bad luck come in threes?

[Carlin]

After 10 years of changing my own tyres I have never blown a tyre off a rim.

Untill this week. Three times!

Just blasted 120 psi less than one meter from my ear.

This is both on the roadie and the MTB

 

[demo9pro]

Must be the hot weather haha

 

[Cave Dweller]

The tires are rooted, bead has stretched. Bin them a get some newies.

 

[johnny]

Don't know about threes, but I can sympathise with the blown eardrum bit. I let a guy on the street change a tyre for me the other day. Unfortunately he didn't put it in properly and just stuffed a hand full, all bunched up, into one part of the wheel. So when I pumped it up it was a bit softish feeling. I put a little more air in with my floor pump, in a concrete corridor and had it blow up straight into my face. When I took it off I was able to see what he had done. I felt like going back and punching his incompetent, lazy, ignorant farking face in.

 

['Ross]

Solution Johnny: Do it yourself

My experience comes from when a member on this forum who will not be named, asked me to 'help' him pump up his tyre at the servo. He thought there was a puncutre in the tube so he asked me to put my head right next to the tyre and 'listen'.

So there I am listening, there he is not realising the tyre is being overpumped, eventually BBOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!! The tube explodes right on my head. Last time I help someone with their tyres.

 

[Carlin]

CD is on the money with the old tyre thing. It is just funny that it has been three different tyres in the one week.

 

[johnny]

Solution Johnny: Do it yourself

I usually do, but in Beijing there are street repairers everywhere and when you get a flat on the road paying AUS$2 for a new tube and fitting is pretty tempting!

 

['Ross]

I usually do, but in Beijing there are street repairers everywhere and when you get a flat on the road paying AUS$2 for a new tube and fitting is pretty tempting!

Whilst we are stuck paying $5 for a new tube and doing it ourselves!