Drat
One unfortunate side-effect of having the tube in my front tire spontaneously split at the weld was, apparently, that it chewed up the sidewall on my front Nomad. I discovered this this evening when I used my floor pump to inflate the tire to 100psi,only to have the tube explode shortly thereafter. And when I checked the tire for damage, I found an inch-long tear in the sidewall just above the bead.
So that’s my first dead Nomad (since it was the front it still had 99% of the tread, even after 2500 miles of use. That’s annoying.) Ah well, it was only $20 and I got more use out of it than I’ve gotten from the $50 Parigi Roubaix tires that are now being used as emergency spares in my rando supply pile.