I ordered two new tires, or mantles I believe is what they’re called. One looked fine and I mounted it on my bike. The other one looks quite warped. It’s not soft but rather pretty sturdy, so I worry it wont sit correctly if I try to install it.
I’m a newb to this, first time I even changed a tube by myself. So let me know if I need to add more information.
Thanks!
Edit: thanks everyone! I’ll give it a try tomorrow.
Cheers!
On the side note, I’m not a native English speaker. I used the word mantle because that’s a literal translation of the correct German term, according to my 20 minutes of research I did when ordering new tubes and tires. And when I wrote my question here in English, I googled to see if ”tire mantle” is a thing, got some results and thought, alright, I’ll just use that then.
Well, at least the picture helped you folks understand what I was talking about, I didn’t manage to confuse you too bad :)
Out of curiosity, what is the German word?
Mantel.
”Der Mantel ist der äußere, robuste Teil des Fahrradreifens”
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrradbereifung
I would translate that as:
”The mantle is the outer, robust part of the bicycle tire“
But honestly, I don’t get a lot of hits when I google for that even in German. Seems like a case where it’s a very technical term that only a few people insist is correct. And everyone else just calls that the tire (Reifen). Just happens that the page I used to learn about the sizes of things I can buy for my wheels used “mantle”.