Comments on: Kaboom! http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/kaboom/ The Bicycles Stack Exchange Blog Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: neilfein http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/kaboom/#comment-21 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:38:53 +0000 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/?p=108#comment-21 After a couple of local rides, I think I’m comfortable taking these tires on tour. They ride smoothly, and the traction on gravel is somewhere in between my old touring tires and my 700×32 knobby tires. It certainly doesn’t help that tourists consistently give these tires a good rating. Member zenbike feels that these tires are “…worth their weight in gold”. Looks like we have a winner!

]]> By: freiheit http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/kaboom/#comment-18 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:13:25 +0000 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/?p=108#comment-18 I had a similar problem over the weekend.

Got a flat on the way to work, swapped tubes and rode home (12 miles or so), and on Saturday went into pump up the tire the rest of the way. Got a little “hissing” that I thought was the pump head not quite sealing right, and then a bang like a gunshot. Stung my leg a little, ruined the pump head and blew the tire bead out of the rim.

I assume I had the tube pinched a little and that’s what caused the blowout.

Had to buy a new pump afterwards.

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