Right up until you take a blade to them, bike-tire inner-tubes are all but indestructible. Pair them with these IT-Clips and you have yourself a hard-wearing and environmentally-friendly set of tie-down straps.
Punctures can be repaired, but there comes a time in every inner-tube’s life when it has to be retired from service. If you’re a cyclist, then you likely have a heap of them stowed away, ready for to use.
Here’s a short list of the things I am using inner-tunes for right now: wrapped around the handles of a pair of crutches to provide grip and extra size; wrapped around the tops of bike-polo mallets as handles; slid like a sleeve over the barrel of a fat metal pen to make it easier to use; cut, folded and stuck into a small rubber pouch to carry a puncture-repair kit (very meta, this last one).
The IT Clips are threaded onto the tubes just like any clasp threads onto a piece of webbing. The clips then slot together for quickly securing a load, or even for holding up your pants. You can extend them with the metal IT Hooks seen in the above picture. A pair of clips costs around $5, and they come in red, yellow, green and blue. You should find them in bike and hardware stores.
IT Clips product page [IT Clips via Oh Gizmo]
See Also:
- Bike Inner-Tube Vending Machine
- Rubber Wallets Made From Old Inner-Tubes
- (Almost) 1001 Uses for Old Inner Tubes
- Rubber Bags Made from Bike Inner Tubes
- How To: Make an iPod Nano Case from a Bike Inner-tube
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