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 ...

“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 ...

Don’t throw away your old bike inner tubes: Use them to make something instead. Old, punctured rubber tubes are the secret MacGyver tool lurking in almost everybody’s tool box, and here at the Lab we ...

Austrian company Tubolito is known for manufacturing bicycle inner tubes from TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane), a high-tech ...

Tyres and inner tubes are one of the cycling industry’s most common service items. Whether that’s due to wear and tear, punctures, or a complete blowout, the trade gets through its fair share of ...

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 ...