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Originally Posted by rh8234
I've had bad schrader valves fail on cars, bicycles, and motorcycles. They all just leaked slowly though, and I have never had one actually blow out of the valve stem. I'd be suspicious that some time in the last week or two, when your bike was parked, maybe somebody removed the valve cap and losened the schrarer valve. Where do you usually park the bike? at work? Anybody pi$$ed at you there? At home, is it always in a locked garage, or could a nutjob neighbor have gotten to it???
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I usually park my bike in my garage when I'm home. I had to park my bike in the hotel parking lot the night before I rode home from Meridian. When I first noticed the schrader valve missing I wondered if someone had tampered with it. I wondered if it could be loosened to a point that it would fail without letting the air out but I don't know if it's really possible. If that's what happened it was most likely in the hotel parking lot.