Those things are pretty strong, they don't just break when falling over. Chances are the cyclist would still lose. Better replace it with a landmine, or something else that really explodes when getting hit.
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Ok but I don't think propane tanks are as fragile & explosive as they suppose.
Pressure relief valve needs to be sealed so it can really go boom.
Realistically nothing happens. The pressure relief valve does not matter, as the track itself has to fail from the impact. Nobody is going to uniformly squeeze it to build pressure to make it rupture, where the valve would open. A fire cooking it for minutes means you are either already burned crispy or simply not near anymore. But in that case at least we get a nice explosion.
But really nothing happens, there is nothing to crush it. A bike will just give way and the tank flies off. You need either a ton of inertia behind it or 2 vehicles pancaking you.
I always loved in Snowcrash the key antagonist drove around on a motorbike with a side car with a ex-soviet nuke wired to a heart beat monitor. Security companies spent their time not trying to stop him but trying to stop his numerous enemies from trying to kill him
Sure its going to be a bit of a fizzle when the tritium decays but still gonna make one hell of a hole in the road if someone dares to hit him.
Like that dude in Snow Crash who has a niclear bomb for a motocycle sidecar.
When I see this thumbnail, I think about the Korn album Follow The Leader.

It's a nice thought but people still drive like assholes around full blown tanker trucks.
In my experince this sort of thing will work better if the propane tank is clearly visible.

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