Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

buffalo wrote: »

Ouch!

Similar thing happened to a friend of mine years ago.
Both cycling alongside each other on mountain bikes and without warning he just face plants the road. Running cantilever brakes, the upper brake cable snapped and the link cable dropped down onto his knobbly tyre and sent him flying over the bars without warning.:eek:

http://balls.ie/news/what-do-you-do-if-youre-a-world-class-cycling-team-and-all-your-bikes-are-stolen/

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Dan Martin just tweeted that 16 Cervelos have been stolen off Garmin. No racing today. How messed up is that?

Did Saint-Andre borrow them so he and the French 15 could escape from the Stade de France?

Yes I did originally blame Rob Howley and the Welsh, but every time I slag them, the boys come good - Tidy!

xbox gamer wrote: »

Would this be a boards theme tune/song? Sorry if it was posted here before. I only came across this yesterday and its catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdfiVwsLeVY

New direction for Lenny Henry.

I saw a Garda arresting a young man with 2 bikes (stolen?) this morning. He was getting a bit mouthy so she handcuffed him to both bikes while awaiting backup. He looked ridiculous!

Mod note, football spoilers also apply here

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What sort of a clown uses metric and imperial in the same recipe?

An imperiatric. It's like a geriatric but more mischievous.

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What sort of a clown uses metric and imperial in the same recipe? My heads hurts!

It's not uncommon - consider car tyres as an example: The diameter is imperial (i.e. 16 inch) but the width is metric (e.g. 205 mm).

This is quite possibly the most boring post ever submitted to 410. So I'll stick it in The Camper Van and apologise in advance for any induced comas*

I clipped a nasty, square-edged pothole just after leaving work this evening, as I was rolling onto a roundabout. There was a good thwack off the rear wheel and I immediately expected to hear a loud hiss, caused by the rapid loss of air through the four small parallel slits in the tube that typically result from a snakebite puncture.

But I heard nothing and judging by the feel of the rear wheel, couldn't detect any loss of pressure either. Happy days, I thought ... I seem to have got away with that one. About 10 seconds later there was a hearty bang and an instant after that I could feel and hear my wheel rim rolling and then skidding along the tarmac.

Thankfully, I got the bike over to the kerb without incident. Upon inspection, the tyre had parted company with the rim, while the tube had ruptured completely. One end of the tube got pulled into the wheel and had wrapped itself around the disc brake once and the cassette several times.

I surmised that although the tube hadn't been punctured by the initial impact, the rim must still have been deformed, at least enough to create a small gap through which the tube could protrude and then explode. But having untangled the tube, removed the wheel and carefully checked the circumference of each side, I could find no evidence of any damage. The tyre was unmarked also.

So this leads me to conclude that the impact was sufficient to dislodge the bead of the tyre from an ostensibly healthy rim, after which the tube completed the job of removing the tyre altogether before self-destructing. The two main contributory factors here, I believe, (apart from my hitting the pothole in the first place) are the very light weight and suppleness of the tyre (Conti GP4000S) and its very loose fit on the rim - it takes very little effort to fit the tyre without using levers.

I've never experienced a puncture like that before and it wasn't very nice, I have to say. Anyone else? For sure, it could be bad news if it happened on the front wheel in different circumstances. Hmmmmm.

[* apologising afterwards would be a bit late, clearly]

@Keep_Her_Lit I'm guessing that the tyre saw a reflection of itself on your bike and killed itself.