how fast can YOU deflate a tube?

[Bendix]

my coworker can move pretty fast when he wants to! :mrgreen:

 

[deorman]

So Walmart is selling better stuff now? :? :lol:

 

[karfer67]

the ones that suck are when the valve is just far enough in where you cant get it with your finger nail. then foe some reason i can never find anything pointy in time to save it. however i have only blown up two tubes the whole time i have worked in shops not bad considering that is a total of about 15 years. best one was a road bike wheel a co worker was trying to fix. he changed it and bam a min later it blew. so he changed it embarrassed and bam same thing. he throws it to me not being able to figure out whats going on. i change it check the tire and i dont see anything wrong. i pump it up a little figuring the bead is bad somewhere and nadda. i pump it all the way up to 110 then suddenly i feel a bulge right under my thumb as the tube starts to come flying out. i saved it and found that the tire had a tiny tiny rip in the sidewall just big enough to hold the tube in with some pressure but when full was applied whamo.

 

[druggedonions]

It has taken me milliseconds
I was away at a festival with my wife and kids. I'd pumped the tyres up on my kids pram before leaving the house and when we got to the car park I lifted the pram out the boot. We were doing a few things round the car like getting change bags and kids out of the car when there were these two loud bangs. We looked round but couldn't see what it was. Next thing is I walk round to the back of the car to hang bags off the pram and I notice both wheels are flat.
WHAT AN IDIOT!! The pram had been in direct sunlight and both tubes had popped :roll:
My good lady didn't let it rest for the rest of the day as we had to carry the wee one round in our arms. Now I always carry a puncture repair kit and pump in the boot of the car.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Normally I can swap a tube out pretty quick, most times I don't have to deflate anything, the nail, glass, or whatever I ran over does that pretty well. I always drag home every bike and bike part I can so I have plenty of spare tubes and tires sitting at home. What gets me is gas stations now are charging $1.00 for 3 minutes of air!!! This is an outrage! When I was a kid air used to be free, then it was a quarter but still reasonable. Now it's $1.00 I'm sorry but that is just too much to air up a bike tire when I got a good pump at home I can use for free. Just my $0.02 :mrgreen:

 

[Blueboy5000]

I can deflate a tube PDQ... I use a valvestem tool and just take out the valve core. Usually takes about 15 seconds, and that includes taking off the valve cap.

 

[raskal13]

Once I ran over a chunk of 2" angle-iron left on the bike lane on my commute home and I think both tires were flat in about 2 seconds. I was going down a hill at the time and the rapid deflation made stopping safely 'interesting' to say the least. Both tires and tubes had a horizontal cut right through to the rims which were damaged as well.

 

[schwinnmesa]

LOL!!!

 

[Wildcat]

When we were kids, my brothers and I had an old compressor from a refrigerator. We would tie off an old tube that couldn't be patched and hook it up. They deflated with a big boom!

 

[Rat Rod]

I hate it when that happens...sure does get your blood pumpin'...ha ha! :lol:

 

[Highridah]

pretty quick ill use the airchuck to take air out.

 

[Tailwinds]

What am I looking at in the photo?????? Is that the tube that's burst out the side after the tire has lost its bead seat?
That's happened a couple times just recently. For some reason the last time it happened the boom was so loud in my shop that my ears rang for two hours....