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Over on Instructables someone started a post on uses for old bicycle inner tubes. He made it up to twenty, but we just know there have to be more.
The hacked inner tube made its debut on Bikehacks with windproof shoe covers. A follow up was using inner tubes to wrap your frame in the Ugly Your Ride initial entry, followed up by the Ugly Your Ride case study. If have inner tube hacks, send them to us.
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1 Ryan // Mar 21, 2008 at 4:01 am
I use pieces of old innertube to “build up” and protect my handle bars from scratches when I attach stuff to them. (bell, light, etc.)
I built a front rack that uses “conduit clamps” from the hardware store. They clamp great but would have removed quite a bit of powdercoating from my bars if i hadn’t had the rubber layer there to protect them. A little electrical tape works well to secure the bits of tube.
2 danielo // Mar 21, 2008 at 11:48 am
I cut a long thin strip from an old tube — approx 1/4″ thick and around the entire circumference — and use the super-long “rubber band” as a tie-down strap on my rack. The first end around a rack corner, then round-and-round the rack+cargo, then hook the final end around a corner again.
3 Earth Day 2008 - Recycle Your Old Innertubes | Blue Collar Mountain Biking // Apr 22, 2008 at 7:37 am
[...] guys over at BikeHacks have a post titled “1,000 Uses for the Inner Tube”, which links to an Instructables page with 20 uses. Personally I use a tube as a chainstay [...]
4 Bubba Nicholson // Apr 27, 2008 at 2:31 am
Patch ‘em and ride ‘em.
Patch ‘em and use ‘em for lightweight tent poles.
Patch ‘em and tape ‘em to a clear plastic garbage bag for a lightweight emergency umbrella.
5 Spacer // May 2, 2008 at 6:37 am
They’re pretty handy for mounting bikes on the car or in my pickup bed, to keep ‘em from flopping around. They pretty much take the place of bungees there.
I also use a bit of tube to keep the crank arm from hitting my wife’s hitch rack directly.
I also have a section of tube that I use as an action cover for one of my rifles. Keeps the water and grime out when the weather’s really grotty.
6 Crankzone » Earth Day 2008 - Recycle Your Old Innertubes // Jul 5, 2008 at 10:57 am
[...] guys over at BikeHacks have a post titled “1,000 Uses for the Inner Tube”, which links to an Instructables page with 20 uses. Personally I use a tube as a chainstay [...]
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