Once, longer ago than I care to admit, on my way to work I was playing "crit racer" in a large parking lot. Caught a pedal hard enough to skip the rear wheel out about a foot. Some fancy gymnastics and brute-force yanking on the 'bar kept me upright. But all of a sudden I was getting a "whomp-whomp-whomp" out of the rear wheel. S**T! Trashed the rim! Work was only a couple miles, so I just kept going. Got to the shop, hopped off, and inspected the rear wheel. The rim was fine, but I'd peeled a 9" stretch of the wire-bead rear tire off the rim. Just enuf that it didn't blow out. Let the air out, reseated the tire and pumped it back up, and everything was fine. Never seen that happen before or since.

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Bend, OR