Thanks!
The rim is a 31mm wide Downhill Crystalyte rim from Justin. And I make sure when installing tire that its seated properly.
This is my routine.
1) Inflate new tube and let the air out so there is a little air still inside.
2) Install tire so that one side of the tire bead is on the rim.
3) Slip new tube in, and put the valve through the rim.
4) Carefully sliding the tube inside the tire all the way around, double checking that its correct.
5) Carefully slipping the tires other bead over the tube until it reaches that point where a bit of it cant slip on with hands alone.
6) I try using my hands to push the bead up the rim wall on the outside to see how close I am, if I am close I put more strength into it, if I am a long ways off I use plastic levers trying not to pinch the tube. Sometimes I slip my finger up into the tire to see where the tube itself is.
My fix today, the tire went on easily with just the hands. Front tire went on the back, new tube in the back. Inflated to 45psi, normally I inflate to 52psi which is right in the middle of the tires recommended 40-65psi.
Here are some pictures of the questionable damage to tire.
Right on the seam. BTW I put a bit of duct tape on it, and pumped it up and checked for any other leaks under water at the sink, no other leaks were found. This is what I envisioned I'd see from the sound I heard. This one was at 52psi. I inflated new tube to 45psi, but maybe I should be going up to 60 or 65psi whatever the sidewall of the tire states. The tire is a 2.0.
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This particular flat was eventful.
After a short 10 minute walk from the river into a residential neighborhood, with google maps and cell phone found the bus stops. I got lucky, choice of 4 buses. The bus stop headed south only had one bus, the bus stop I was at, heading north had 3 buses and it was 5pm so buses every 15 minutes. My calculations were in 45 minutes of waiting, there would be 8 buses rolling by. I sat at the bus stop with 3 choices, but the other side of the road, the bus came within 5 minutes with a bike rack. My bus stop, by the 3rd bus and in 15 minutes a bus with a rack came. I was lucky! For now on I gotta carry a pump, a tube, levers and a patch kit. Imagine riding and being stranded out in no mans land, imagine an industrial area after about 6pm there are no buses. Even then, if its peak rush hour like 4 or 5pm that route might only be a small bus and they never has a rack on it, or its a one bus route and that normal sized bus has no rack on it. Royally F'd! Been there, exact scenerio, but on a Sunday, so short bus. Called a taxi, and they guy wanted extra cash because I had a bike, he made several lie's to me in which I kept my mouth shut, and explained I understand, yes I will pay you extra. Got to the train station and I never gave him extra! :lol: Is that good, is that bad. Who cares, he lied, there is no extra fee for a bicycle, plus I did all the work. The bike was ready to go, front wheel off, seat off, pannier bags off. One downside is if I ever call a cab again and that mofo shows up. I've had it where it was 3am, in front of a business, well lighted, called taxi, had bike, taxi rolls in, does a loop around right near where he came in and rolls out. As I was at the other end, 250ft away, very visible.