This article has been freshly updated as part of our 'New to Riding' week, running from March 10 to March 17, with a special focus on tips, tricks and inspiration for new riders. At some point as a ...

Wearing out bike tyres and puncturing inner tubes is an unavoidable part of any rider's life, but what should you do when your tyres are unserviceable and your inner tubes can no longer be repaired?

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 ...

Right up until you take a blade to them, bike-tire inner-tubes are all but indestructible. Pair them with these IT-Clips and you have yourself a hard-wearing and environmentally-friendly set of ...

If you’re a cyclist that lives in an area with poorly-maintained infrastructure, you’ll likely have plenty of punctured inner tubes begging for reuse. Consider crafting them into a rugged, ...

Might be a consideration for you if you dislike Kevlar tyres. Self-healing inner tubes are not a new idea, but they've tended to be on the weighty side and blow-outs used to mean a very sticky mess.

Bike inner tubes can be reused as utility straps. I have discovered that bike inner tubes can enjoy a useful second life as utility straps. They can be easily sized — cut into shorter pieces or looped ...