Several of 1000 Uses for Old Bicycle Tubes

erm. not being funny, but what's this supposed to do? is it just a disguise to fool people into thinking its an inner tube?

Use them whole as giant rubber bands. Great for holding the quilt around your furniture when moving. Just remove the valve first.

over pressurize 5 of them and duct tape them together, use as a floatation device

NICE!!
I've got one
hair elastics!
not pretty, or painless, but in a pinch it would work for us with long hair... lol

Also, i noticed a Canadian flag patch, very cool.... a lot of brilliant ideas come from Canada

"The sign says that long haired, creepy people, may not apply."

Tesla - Signs

Hmm. I thought that was a 5 Man Electrical Band song. I have the CD.

I love fatboy slims version too. its called Dont Let the Man( get you down)

name one...

:P

cold fronts, hockey, maple syrup, Igloos, Canadian Bacon! (it looks like ham, but its not, its bacon!) and of course the accent that everyone says we have.

Bob-sledding!

Hockey

i made bike handle bar grips out of my old inertubes

if there the stetchy type you can use them for making slingshot bands

if you make stripes of it you have a haloween wig

I use 'em to strap gear onto my bike or frame pack.

My pair of converse get full of sweaty, feet-bacteria and the canvas falls to pieces. Even worse in areas of high friction such as the toes. I had developed serious holes that could have ruined the shoes. It is hard to sew something through the rubber toe, so I super glued a strip of inner tube on the inside and it seems to work fine.

this is awesome
btw is that a real gun ?

why would u ask, it is, and btw, guns are common

Not where i'm from buddy - they're illegal.

not in england there not

well they r if u dont have a licence

They're common if you don't have a licence?

no to own a real bullet firing gun that uses explosive as the propellant you have to own a licence for things like paintball and air/co2 guns you should be 16 but this 'ible shlould not be classified as a gun

Canadian identity disc dogtags are avaliable at http://www.mydogtag.ca/canadian

BRILLIANT USAGE OF INNERTUBES

Many of you seem to not realise what this Dude is About....... HE WANTS TO SAVE MONEY, re use, what he has, if everyone was the same this planet would be a whole lot less screwed up!

I applaud this Guy!

but if no-one threw anything away then it'd just build up on YOUR land

I use old inner tubes as Bungee cords (elastic tie downs), and as bike handlebar tape. (thick, soft, and grippy)

You find lots of thin high end ones behind good bike stores.

I've just hung my punchbag up in the garage with an old inner tube - works brilliantly.

If you despise the poor battery life, why don't ya use rechargable batteries? $15 ought to get you a charger and 4 AAs which can be recharged like a zillion times.

I read somewhere that Duracell-type batteries hate the cold and rechargeables actually perform better in extreme temps

This might not be terribly relevant, but I bought a 1974 Sturmey Archer Dyno hub off ebay for $30. I had to disassemble it and derust, regrease and adjust stuff, but once built into a wheel, it will be capable of charging whatever 6 volt or so light I mount on my looooong excursion bike. I think I shall attach my highend cateye (which is presently an LED unit and a switch, all else broke) to a C battery pack I have sitting around, and shell out for some rechargeable Cs which I can recharge over and over and over and over... which my Dynohub will charge in the daytime. Deepbreath, stop for periods.
So generator hubs can sometimes be found on a COB budget, and they make rechargeables way worth it...

over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...

I sure would like to see that instructables. Seen and have been told a couple of how to's, but none seem to match the real thing. I'm just too cheap to buy a pair, specially since it sorts of require another set of wheels for city commuting... after a few days they've cleared all of the snow and the studs become a disadvantage. Mind you I'm sure it would have been great to get to work the next morning after one of the half dozen foot+ falls. Anyway, why stop at -20°C? We haven't really seen any lower this year here, but I did for a ride on one of those days just to test it out... it's not that bad.... you just don't wanna stop too much ;)

The irony is, sometimes when it's super cold it's safer to ride because the ice on the ground is rock hard - as opposed to when the temp's right around zero C and you keep slipping on the melty bits.

So by now I'm in my second winter riding... Funny you mentioned that, we just had some freezing rain, so little you could barely see it on the road. I think it's the most slippery thing I've ever seen. Saw three cars miss their stops and one rear end a parked car on my way. And then I wiped out trying to avoid a ped that decided to cross (with his kid) from between two parked cars. Then met up with 3 other experienced cyclists. Out of us 4 only one hadn't wiped out, but he also came close. This year however we've seen constant < -20°C for a about a week or two. It can be a little intense when coupled with 30kmh winds (that's ~-35*C with windchill, not include your own "wind"). But really I see as many cyclists on the road as the day it started to snow. How winter treating you?

Oh man I wish I had seen this at the beginning of the winter. My Diamondback Apex is covered in grit.

maybe this is a stupid question but...batteries rolling around lose makes them lose their charge faster than if kept in pairs?

i think he means he forever having to find em in his bag and that makes it easier

Cutting an inner tube at whatever hole made it "unusable", and sealing both ends, you can add a simple piece of flotation to the underside of canoe gunnels

Lit pieces of inner tubes are great fire starters for outdoor survival--they even burn when wet.

They work well alone, but you can also cut the tube into 3 inch pieces, and seal one end, then fill the pouch with saw dust and wax, then seal the other end...makes a great emergency fire starter that lasts a little longer than just burning rubber

good ideas!

heh,nice

You are a GENIUS for thinking up the carabiner anti-slip device! Now I know how to keep the buggers in place. Thank you!

Heatshrink works better for most this stuff, assuming you can find it in a sufficient size. Say for a lighter/mp3/leathermans grip, just slip it on and apply heat. Wraps around it for a factory fit and has about the same grip as a tire innertube. I don't know how large heatshrink is available, but I would think it would work incredibly for a gun grip.

I've tried heat-shrink for a machete grip... heating it makes the surface smooth, didn't really help... inner-tube was cheaper and looks like it would've been more durable.

I guess you could also heat the tubing and get the same effect, but stretching it around something would make it look pretty too, if you wrapped it correctly.

What about doing a paracord wrapping and then going over it in big heatshrink? The grip of the cord and the waterproofness of the tube together.

you can also use it to strap your self to a skateboard so you can do 360's and stuff

you can also use a piece of inner tube to protect trailer wiring and loose wires under your car. I don't have a camera, but it works better then the wiring loom.
I also have a chunk of rubber on my leatherman for grip and to keep the other tools tucked when using the knife, I like my fingers in one piece with no slices.

is that a norco I see peeking out from behind those tube chunks?