Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
True blowouts like you describe are hardly ever the fault of a tube - it's the tire or the mounting of the tire, too much braking on a hot downhill, or once in a while the rim. A bad tube will just go flat without an explosion.
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+1 . This happened to me about one month ago when I replace the inner tube at home . The bang was so loud I though there goes my hearing at 56 .