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  1. How do people usually ship tires? Is there a special box one has to
    find, or can you just wrap the thing in a bag with bubble paper.

    It is probably a silly question, but I never bought a tire from an
    individual person through the mail, and I'm asking because I have a
    couple of really nice tires I'd like to unload, probably through eBay,
    but I'm not sure how to send them once I sell them.

    The tires are 1 26 inch Hookworm--hardly used. The other is a 26 inch
    Big Apple--also hardly used.

    I know these are both considered excellent tires, but they have both
    been major dissapointments for me--I couldn't do anything with them. I
    think a better unicyclist would have a ball with them, but my own riding
    goes down the toilet when I try riding with these two gems. Go
    figure....

    I gave up trying to ride on these (I have a Bontranger that suits me
    really well) and so instead to keeping them, hoping that someday I might
    be "good enough" to ride with a Hookworm or a Big Apple, I'd rather just
    get rid of them.

    So now, my only consern is not how to ride these tires, but how to pack
    them...

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    dogbowl - Falling to Dark Side of theUnicycle

    All I want out of life is to be able to ride the unicycle while smoking
    a cigar at the same time. Is that too much to ask for?
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  2. So much for my suggestion of installing them on your uni and riding them
    to the buyers destination.😄

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  3. When I bought tires from kenda.com they just came in a big, skinny box.

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    forrestunifreak - Why change this thing, anyway?

    "You do not make the unicycle-the unicycle makes you."

    ~Y.C. tv

    'torkerusa.com' (http://torkerusa.com)

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  4. For tires with wire beads, I think you're not supposed to bend the bead
    too much. Some tires have flexible (kevlar?) beads, and can be folded up
    at will. You don't have to leave it round, but don't squish it too much,
    either.

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    johnfoss - The wilder Wilder

    John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
    "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com

    "Read the rules!" -- 'IUF Rulebook'
    (http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/rulebook/) -- 'USA Rulebook'
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  5. are you the one who made that cool song?

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  6. I got a large order of Coker tires from Coker. They tied the tires
    together and then wrapped the whole thing in black plastic. (Like a
    black garbage bag). Then wrapped tape around the package every 6 inches.
    They looked exactly like tires wrapped in plastic. (or like a donut)
    This is how I recieved them. I think it was FedEx that delivered 'em.

    It worked great for Coker tires anyway.

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