Don’t throw away your old bike inner tubes: Use them to make something instead. Old, punctured rubber tubes are the secret MacGyver tool lurking in almost everybody’s tool box, and here at the Lab we use them for all kinds of things, including iPod Nano cases and non slip shims for putting bells on bikes.
Over at Instructables, Tommi Potx has taken things even further with a long list of inner-tube hacks in a how-to entitled “Several of 1000 Uses for Old Bicycle Tubes”. Some of them involve his bike, but many are remarkably innovative and have nothing to do with cycling. Our favorites are the Laptop Key (a small square of tube bent into places fills the gap left by a lost key-cap), the Gun Grip (what it says) and the Friction Provider, a grippy-coating for a Zippo lighter to keep it in your pocket, proving that you don’t have to be a health-hippy to ride a bike.
As you may have guessed, Tommi is a former military man, and some of his hacks are rather army-centric (a dog-tag silencer, for instance). But while you might not need everything on his list, it should at least inspire you the next time you’re thinking of spending money at the hardware store. Just stop and think: Can you make it yourself.
Several of 1000 Uses for Old Bicycle Tubes [Instructables]
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