Wanted: Nokian Gazzaloddi or Arrow racing Prime bite
24/26 inch i will buy any.
Where are you? There’s one in Switzerland, but it has to be collected: https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/nokian-gazzaloddi-mtb-dh-reifen-26x23-neu!-1289141012/
But these are 2.3" tires and not 3"
The OP only stated 24/26 inch…
That’s true, but you don’t know the story behind these tires. They were legendary MUni tires in 3.0. I guess that was 25 years ago.
I only knew they were legendary, but didn’t know about the width. Were they the widest available back then?
After trying 27.5x3 I decided that for now I will stay at 26x4 for muni (in the summer… next winter I want to try the 4.8" wide Schwalbe Al Mighty).
They were pretty unique. But I can’t say anything about how large the selection was. They were THE Muni tires. @danger_uni and @johnfoss probably know more about that.
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I doubt, that the rubber is still very grippy after all those years. They might even be already hard and porous.
I need 3.0 of course but thanks for help.
My friend in Germantown MD has two for sale: Nokian Gazzaloddi 24 x 3.0 tires
Thanks for letting me know, but i askd him and he will not sent this tires to europe, mabye you can solve this situation, if this is your friend.
Gazzaloddi was one of the first “wide” tires you could find for 24" rims. Looking back at my photos from the late 90s, I’m first seeing them in late 1998, first on 26" rims, and later the 24 x 3.0" on 24s. That’s what caused a lot of us to have 24" Munis at that time. My first purpose-built Muni was the DM ATU (stands for David Mariner All Terrain Unicycle). These were introduced in 1998 and I got mine in 1999 from Unicycle.com. It had a 2.4 x 26" Gazzaloddi tire and I was amazed at the huge difference it made in being able to roll over the bumps/rocks/roots compared to my 24 x 1.75 Miyata tires at 60 psi. You had to run those narrower tires at high pressure or you would get constant pinch flats. It was a total change in riding enjoyment on the trails.
Gazzaloddi tires were made for downhill mountain bike racing, which meant they were designed to go 100 kph on rocks. In other words, you could expect it to be very tough and not be afraid to ride it all over everything in sight. But they were heavy. Everything’s a trade-off, and those were totally worth it at the time.
I still have (at least) one in my garage, but I’m keeping it with the John Hooten Muni it arrived with.
A note about tire longevity: It is my understanding that one of the big killers of tires is UV light. I learned in the 80s, when my unicycles were used in lots of shows, that leaving them in the car made their tires lose their grip on smooth floors. Time and air quality are also factors in tire aging. I have some older tires that are crispy-cracky, but others that still seem pretty flexible after lots of years hanging in the garage. Based on my experience, the best thing you can do to help tires last a long time is keep them away from sunlight (UV), heat (my garage in the summer, especially up near the ceiling) and possibly dry air, though I’m not sure about that. 
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if these tires are stuck in your garage mabye you could sell me, well i only need one:)
Correction to my history info above:
The DM ATU was the first “mass-produced” uni with a splined hub but it was not the first purpose-built Muni, that credit goes to the Pashley bike company, who donated one of their unis to us for the 1998 California Muni Weekend. That was randomly won in a raffle at the event. My first purpose-built Muni was a handmade frame with carbon fiber tubing and aluminum lugs, built by Roger Davies.
That bit of info is a reminder that a lot of early development in unicycles specifically for off-roading, happened in the UK. Thanks, Brits!
I loved the carbon muni; it was incredibly light. Its limitations were that it was a square taper hub, and the frame fit the MTB tires of the time, but could not fit a 2.4" or 3" tire. It was the perfect setup for the competition events that Rolf Sander put together at some of the Moab Muni Fests in the mid-2000s.
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