80psi road bike tire BLEW out just Sitting. Normal??
I'm fairly new to road bikes and as I was working on another bike, and was startled by a LOUD bang (louder than a 22lr, quieter than a 12GA). It was my Puch Cavette sitting about 30 feet away. I went and looked at it and the side wall had jumped past the rim. I pulled the tube and it has a 6 inch split about even with where the side wall of the tire would have been. The tire looked to be in good shape but some of the sidewall's top edge was a little frayed. I don't know if it happened when the blowout occurred or if it was this way before the blow out. It's not sharp to where I'd think it'd damage a tube.
Is this common with high pressure road bike tubes?
Edit to add tire size: 27x1 1/4"
Last edited by 777funk; 10-01-21 at 07:14 AM.