Written by Anna Brones, EcoSalon
When a friend’s tire went flat on a bike ride earlier this year, I asked her if I could keep the tube.
“You want my punctured tube?” she asked, with a slight hint of “are you nuts?”
“Yes.”
“What are you going to do with it?”
“I don’t know, earrings maybe?”
I had been mulling the idea over for quite some time. Alchemy Goods and Green Guru are known for their upcycled bike tube designs that I have fallen in love with numerous times, and I figured that if they could do it, so could I, at least on a small scale. A few samples later and several friends were outfitted with new earrings.
Where do you find bike tubes? Go the standard route and put out a call out to your velo loving friends – a Facebook request yielded about 30 used tubes that an old friend had been saving in his basement for a good project – or ask a local bike shop. Got a tube? Let’s get started.
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