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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Split rims fail often?
Worked my way through college managing a service station across from a large truck stop. Saw at least two broken arms in the three years I managed the station. Once mounted they are stable enough. However, if not set up perfectly when mounting a tire or repairing a flat, they will explode just as shown int he short video clip. The force is quite destructive. These days, I wear safety glasses and give respect even when inflating bicycle tires.

(Caveat, my time trial bike‘s racing tires are rated to 170 PSI though I normally inflate them to 120-140 depending on the smoothness of the road. I have had tires that are rated for 220 PSI The things are damned expensive too, often costing as much as a 17 -18 inch truck tire). Neat thing about my TT’s bikes tires, they are Tubular. They have the tube sewn up inside the tire. You can and need to fully inflate them prior to mounting, to stretch them out. Installation is a whole nother task
 
Never ever inflate a split rim outside of a tire cage. Seen too many broken arms and worse from explosions such as this. Without the tire cage, it’s like playing Russian roulette with 3 of 6 cylinders loaded.
Worked in a shop when that happened . The wheel was out of the cage and the split section was up. The ring went through the roof and landed in the street out front. We were lucky, no injuries occurred.
 
Never ever inflate a split rim outside of a tire cage. Seen too many broken arms and worse from explosions such as this. Without the tire cage, it’s like playing Russian roulette with 3 of 6 cylinders loaded.
Seen one death from Split-Rim Blown out . I was on scaffolding working on a wall when a smaller size Euclid pulls up about 50 yard behind us with a Full Load and stops. One of that excavation crew laborers ( just a young kid ) runs up with an air hose and starts filling a low tire. That was it, it just laid him out right there in the dirt.