Amanda and I went for a bike ride on the waterfront this afternoon. Great day for it too - nice end to the weekend.

On the way back, we were cruising down the highway, windows down, stereo blaring and then out of nowhere - BANG!

The bizarre thing was that the noise came from within the van - and I don't have a gunrack. Definitely loud enough to make my ears ring and definitely enough to make me pull over and figure out what the heck had happened.

Turns out my bicycle tired had exploded.

Quite odd considering that I had been tooling around on it all afternoon.