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So I was pumping up my bike tire...
and went for an uneventful ride the other day.
Came home and took a picture of my bike, just because that's what I do, take pictures, and noticed something funny at the valve stem on the front tire. Any of you guys ever had this happen? I'm bummed because the tube is a super heavy duty one I put in way back a long time ago when I switched wheels to this bike. They're heavier duty than the tires themselves. If they'd stay on the rims without tires around them I think you could easily ride on them.  The 'heavy duty' Goodyear inner tube I replaced it with this morning is really light weight compared to what came out.
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Yep... I've seen that a few times in the past but lately - E-Bikes!
Age plus heat IMO.
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It's a toomah!!!
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Just a little embolism. If it has the chance of chafing around the valve stem hole, it will go away.
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If you ride fast enough, the centrifugal force will make the air leave the valve stem and go back into the tube.
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Pull inner tube.
Coat with ubtanuim coating. Wrap a 1/32" steel hard band around the base of the valve stem. Sue the mfr for providing cheap new parts which led to your broken neck.
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Imagine a really fast rotating bicycle wheel with a tiny camera mounted in such a way so it would record what's going on in the valve area. Air has mass so it would be affected by centrifugal force but it would also be pulling a vacuum behind it. Would those two forces balance each other out? IMO the centrifugal force would be greater than vacuum up to a certain point.
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Pull it back and reinflate. Maybe a fiber washer if the fit isn't right.
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(i.e. speed up to not crash.)
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My former car
