They make great rim strips if you cut em into long strips and sew them in a loop smaller than your wheel and cut a hole out for the valve. maybe you could even skip the sewing part if you used an inner tube that was smaller than your rim. I like this sort of rim strip because you can take it off easily to get to the backside of the spoke nipples or transfer to another wheel.
Also you can use them for patching other tubes if you scuff them up and put glue on them.
I've also seen them woven into floor mats and sewn around the border.
I built a shack and used gaskets made from old road tires for the screws that hold the roof on. I figured they would last longer in the sun than ones made from inner tubes. They look like they're still in good shape but its only been 8 or 9 months.
I have friends that do a lot of circus stuff and they use bits of old tires on the bottom of their stilts.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Beth Barnes islow4bikes@gmail.com wrote:
Love idea about landscapers!
On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:06 AM, "Bob Giordano" mist@strans.org wrote:
We keep a big box for 'unpatchable tubes' that are constantly used by us and public, mainly for bungee cord substitutes.
For the occasional load of frames going to the recycle center we use a couple dozen tubes daisy chained together for tie downs.
Any tube with slime is immediately thrown in trash.
We discourage using tubes for bar wrap (or for just about anything that will be outside and needs to last more than a year) as it gets sticky and breaks down in hot sun.
Landscapers will get tubes from us to tie branches, prop up plants, etc.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Beth Barnes islow4bikes@gmail.com wrote:
Could the think tank tell me what you/they do with old tire tubes? I'm in northeast VT, far from anywhere.
-- Bob Giordano Free Cycles Missoula Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation www.strans.org, mist@strans.org, 406-880-6834
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