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Originally Posted by thunder  I have read in bicycle books that a garage air pump can blast enough air into a bicycle tyre to burst it - have no idea if this is true (sounds a bit like an urban myth to me  ). When I cycled (not a mountain bike) I used to have my tyres at over 100 psi and didn't get many punctures, but I stuck to the roads! I used a track pump.
henrya |
I used to be a mechnic, when you could use the airline for free, and it was quite common on a saturday morning to hear a very loud bang and see a kid crying with shock, standing next to a bike with a frilly tyre on the forecourt.