5d ago

Is this tire mantle okay or do I need to send it back?

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.

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I happen to have the EPlus variant of that Schwalbe Marathon, and when I received it, it looked in about the same condition. However, after mounting onto rims, checking that the bead seats properly, and then adding air, there was only minimal deviation when rotating the tire. And after a few laps on warm pavement and in the sun, the deviation was gone and it's been perfectly fine for the past 9 months.
On a separate note, I'm not familiar with the term "mantle" for a bicycle tire, as a speaker of American English. Is that a regional term? Here in California, we call it the same as for an automobile: tire.
- 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”.
- Australia checking in. It's a Tyre. Tire is seppo spelling.

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