I was out on a long ride and noticed that my rear wheel went out of true. SO I slowed down quite a bit for the rest of the ride and took it really easy going up or down hills. Got home and took a really good look at the wheel and found this split in the rim.
I thought that was pretty bad. Then I took the tire off the wheel became like this.
Those long splits are on both sides of the rim. I'm surprised but glad I never punctured. It seems that only the tire pressure was keeping the wheel rideable. As soon as I took one side of the tire off at home here the wheel potato chipped and the splits came further away from the rim. Lady Luck was certainly with me that day because it'd have been a long walk home if the wheel had potato chipped like that on the ride.
Cheers