For the average rider, inner tubes have been one of the most enduring and unchanging parts of bicycle design over the decades. They’re made of rubber, they have a Schrader or Presta valve, and they ...

Heavy duty rubber bands (such as those that hold broccoli bunches together) are great for managing cords, attaching gear to your go-bag or backpack, and other uses. All you need to do is cut them from ...

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” opined the nineteenth-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Almost. His actual quote is less pithy—“If a man can make ...

Kathleen Nowak Tucci crafts wearable art from bicycle and motorcycle inner tubes. Photo by Robert Diamante Alabama-based artist Kathleen Nowak Tucci takes rubber bicycle and motorcycle inner tubes and ...