Is my tyre possessed by a ghost ?

ben@31

A bizarre thing has just happened...

I went out on the bike earlier ( after been stuck indoors for the past week )
Inflated the tyres before I went out, the pressures were a bit low.
Did 30km no problem at all. Was a good ride.
When I got back, I propped the bike up against a wall inside my home and left it.
As I walked past it an hour later the front inner-tube suddenly blew.

I didn't touch it and the radiator is cold.

How is this possible?

DavidJB

ISIS

pblakeney

It took the huff because you weren't complimentary enough in the passing.
It needs you to spend more time and attention on it.
You should have given it a loving bubble wash as soon as you got home.

veronese68

So it waited until you were walking past and not expecting it. The bastard thing is a practical joker, and a nasty vindictive one at that. Be careful how you exact your revenge as it will inevitably up the ante in return.

crescent

It's a while since Wiggle were blamed for anything..........

term1te

At least only the tube went. I had a tube go that took the side wall off the rim. I pumped it up, a bit high according to the latest fashion, on a very cold morning. Left the bike in the sun when I got to work, and at some point during the day the inner tube went, taking about six inches of rim with it. To be fair, the rim was very warn, and I was probably lucky it didn't go when I was riding it.

chris_bass

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19757313#p19757313]DavidJB[/url] wrote:

ISIS

No, you are thinking of the tyres that blow themselves up

ayjaycee

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19757471#p19757471]Crescent[/url] wrote:

It's a while since Wiggle were blamed for anything..........

In that case, just blame Evans again.

pinno

Take your bike to the exorcist, it's not a ghost, it is possessed by the devil.

However, there are mitigating factors. If the bike is Italian or indeed French or Spanish origin, you may need to book it in for confession. If it is of the Trek or a Specialised ilk, then an Evangelist would be able to free it from the shackles of sin, it will see the light, sprout wings and be born again.
If the bike is of far eastern descent, then you have upset the inner Hitodama which is far a more complex problem to fix and would require you to cross the cultural divide so that first you can embrace the culture in which inanimate objects can have a soul and second, tap into the apparent imbalance of the yin with the yang.

I am warning you now, that given the atomic theory of the bicycle and the inherent swapping of bike to human and human to bike molecules, that the problem may lie with yourself and a course of therapy might be the only solution.
If you find that your bike is not in the place where you think you left it, then it points to the atomic theory and the bike is probably out doing miles on it's own. When you find yourself sleeping in the shed and the bike is in bed with your missus, it really has gone too far.