Ezas sold me a tire, Duro easy Rider
The tread design looks directional to me being a car mechanic, but there seems to be no indicator on the side wall telling me which way to mount it…
Anyone here able to help me? This is the stock Nimbus 29 touring tire I believe
It doesn’t really matter. does it?
Well it has a ->->->->->-> type tread pattern and with a car it matters which way that would go… Thats why I am asking (BTW that example is the tire going Left to right in my hand now)
Arrows go down in front of you like you are shooting them at the sidewalk and they are shooting you in the back.
Awesome! Thanks pope
you got it. ride well and prosper!
Well, seems that tire doesn’t fit that rim, or I did something wrong… I am now unicycless untill I get a new tube… 
Tire says Max 65 psi… I got to 45 and the tire jumped off the rim and the tube blew out from the side before I could get my vavle stem tool…
That sux!!! Bike stores are open til 8 o’clock around here… I’d be makin a run for it!!
If you got the tire on to the rim, and started inflating up to 45lbs before it blew off I doubt it’s the wrong size.
There are two things I can immediately think of. First of all, your blowout could have been caused by a pinched tube, or an unevenly seated tire.
If you have a tire that fits loosely on a rim you should inflate it to about 10 lbs. and check the seat all of the way around. Also squeeze the sidewalls together to visually inspect that you don’t have any tube between the tire and the rim.
Proceed to inflate to 20lbs, and check again that the bead is seated. As you inflate you might hear the bead popping into place on the rim. It sounds very much the same as the bead popping off of the rim, so when you hear it you should stop and inspect the tire on both sides to make sure it’s not coming off the rim. Still on the rim? keep going up to pressure. If it popped off the rim have a valve tool ready to deflate the tube asap, and you should be able to save the tube before it blows again.
Good luck, and nice job getting to a hundred posts in a month!
Jerry
Tire Direction…
I forgot to talk about tire direction.
What I’ve found is that the tire direction that is indicated on some tires is a good start, but not the gospel truth for uni’s. I had one tire (can’t remember the brand now) that had terrible problems with road camber when it was going the “right” direction. After reading some post’s on the forum about tracking, and camber I tried turning my tire the other way, and it fixed the tracking problems. So, I would say that the direction can matter, but it may take a little trial and error to discover the best direction.
That tire should fit a 27" rim. If you got it filled up that far it must fit. I suspect the tire wasn’t evenly seated all the way around and it ballooned out somewhere. Fill the tire slowly at first and inspect it as you go. Don’t go for full pressure until everything looks good at like 20-25 psi. Might even be best to ride it a little in the middle just to de-stress and even everything out.
I ended up using a 26" tube on my 29er. It is lighter and works fine. It was a little harder to mount and you have to pre-inflate it to stretch it out a bit.
My Nimbus 29 came with the Duro tire (as did Ezas’s). Follow my instruction.
Just saw that you gave the same advice pretty much…
on bikes when it’s a front tire the arrows of knobbs should point forward for speed, and cornering charecteristics that were likely designed into it. In the rear, a tire was often run backwards to serve like a tractor tread and scoop away at mud instead of trying to slice through it. I doubt it matters much when the slop gets pretty deep, and I’m not aware of any definitive comparisons made to suggest which way is most effective in different conditions. I know it will roll faster with the knobby arrows pointing forward. I think the size of the knobby, the distance between the knobbies, and the softness of the rubber dictates what the tire is best at doing.