Originally Posted by topflightpro

The second was much more strange. I was riding along when all of a sudden, bam. There was an explosion in the back wheel that blew a hole in the sidewall of my tire. It looked like something had been shot out of tire. Had there been holes on both side, I would have believed I had been shot - I was riding past an outdoor shooting range - but the hole was only on one side and the hole in the tire was clearly angled outward. I have no idea what caused it. The tube had a hole in it - where a hole piece of rubber was missing - not a tear or poked hole.