01:30 <Pinkbeast> Bah that mysterious bang was my rear tyre exploding

02:09 <UmbralRaptor> Pinkbeast: everyone safe?

02:10 <Pinkbeast> There's only me (it wasn't the tandem) and it was just sitting in the porch

02:10 <Pinkbeast> If I'd been riding the bike the bang would have been significantly less mysterious :-)

02:11 <Pinkbeast> FWIW a rapid decompression is much, much more likely to result in a prang if it's the front tyre - there is much to be said for always putting new tyres on the front, rotating a half-used one to the rear if need be

02:12 <Pinkbeast> ... speaking of which I wonder if the tyre has gone and if so if I have a spare 650B tyre

02:14 <UmbralRaptor> hrm

02:20 <UmbralRaptor> TIL, Frederick Douglass chose February 14 as his birthday.

07:51 <Pinkbeast> Indeed, if you care, I have just done this swap right now, having found a great big rip in the sidewall of the now ex rear tyre

08:13 <Pinkbeast> Done this> by which I mean I have embarked on a programme of activity consisting of 15% doing this, 80% putting tools down and wondering where they are, and 5% junking up IRC

11:33 <UmbralRaptor> <GlassYuri> https://i.imgur.com/keDYgIA.png

17:11 <Iskierka> tyre exploding at random o.O

17:11 <Iskierka> and same recommendation actually applies for cars when motivating safety. Advice about rotating all wheels in regular patterns is to create work for mechanics

23:46 <Iskierka> https://twitter.com/poofichu/status/964167138427666432

23:46 <kmath> <poofichu> @sophshepherd OMG FOUND IT https://t.co/jKZfPqvl7R