Originally Posted by
Zrane
Had a blowout on my ride home today along the seam of the innertube. It was bad enough that it blew the tire off the rim.
This is backwards. The tire is responsible for holding the tube in. When the tire doesn't do its job well (either because of defects or shoddy installation work), the tube blows through the gap. A tube can't "blowout" if it's fully contained inside a tire.