Recycled bike tyre belt
Friday, August 7, 2009
I got one of my Raleigh Grifter’s ‘Supergrips’ made into a belt. Isn’t it great?
On our recent Permaculture course I could see that Ruth was wearing a belt made from an old bike tyre and I thought that was pretty cool. So when I got back I googled and found TyreBelt.
I had an emailed conversation with Duncan the guy that runs it to see if the tyre from my old 1983 Grifter was going to be suitable. There were some concerns about the rubber being cracked as it was so old but he was happy for me to send it up to him on the basis that he’d give me a refund and send me my rare old tyre back should it turn out to be not suitable.
Evidently there was nothing to be worried about as it’s turned out brilliant.
Kudos to Duncan for his excellent service. What a great way to turn an old tyre into something useful.
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www.tyrebelt.co.uk - Tyre belts made from recycled bike tyres says:
October 8, 2009 at 8:35 am
[...] Darren at becomingselfsufficient.org.uk recently sent me a Raleigh Grifter tyre he wanted made into a tyre belt. We weren’t sure how well a 25 year old tyre would transform into a belt but it turned out really well. You can see how it turned out on his blog: becomingselfsufficient.org.uk [...]