DaveReading
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Couldn't get to my LBS, so I ordered a couple of Marathon Plusses on the net.
Panic stations when the postman handed over a package barely larger than a dinner plate, until I opened it and realised that it contained two tyres that had been twisted into a figure-of-eight and then folded over. Once released, they sprang back to a more normal shape.
I've never bought tyres by mail order, so I don't know whether this the usual way to despatch them. I know you can buy folding tyres, but I believe they don't have the same wire bead, so should I be concerned about mine having been folded like that ?
P.S. I was semi-prepared for them being hard to fit. Notwithstanding that video on YouTube, do normal people manage to fit Schwalbes without resorting to tyre levers ?
Panic stations when the postman handed over a package barely larger than a dinner plate, until I opened it and realised that it contained two tyres that had been twisted into a figure-of-eight and then folded over. Once released, they sprang back to a more normal shape.
I've never bought tyres by mail order, so I don't know whether this the usual way to despatch them. I know you can buy folding tyres, but I believe they don't have the same wire bead, so should I be concerned about mine having been folded like that ?
P.S. I was semi-prepared for them being hard to fit. Notwithstanding that video on YouTube, do normal people manage to fit Schwalbes without resorting to tyre levers ?