Tube explosions..thoughts

Soweto888 Yeah, it's horrible. I'd forgotten about the ringing ears, but I do remember that I was in the hallway: the walls can't be more than two-and-a-half feet apart, which just made the experience all the worse. It's not something you forget in a rush. I mean, I'm not going to claim that I'm awake at this ridiculous hour because of the one that popped when I was tucked up in bed - it's not like I haven't slept since June or anything. However, I'm really am quite twitchy around the track pump now. I stretch the tubing out to put as much distance between me and the tyre as possible. Maybe I could get one with a really, really long air hose - inflate my tyres from another room.

Use a pair of boots ear plugs like the ones above, I stick these in and put on my angle grinder ear defenders on !!! - once you have been stung by a complete tube failure at high pressure with your head 2 foot away you do not forget it !!

Cue: someone post the 'harden the fuck up' video :)

I have only once had a tyre explode outdoors (glass shard) the sound was not as biblical as indoors but still had everyone within 500 yards looking around for the man spreading the word of god.