[SDCBC] FW: Tire recycling.

[Thomas Reynolds]

I'm not much of a Jobst Brandt fan but his FAQ on patching tubes is good:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/patching.html

(From a guy who hasn't bought a tube in five years and has had exactly
one patch fail in that time).

Tom

On 8/10/07, Wade Blomgren <wblomgren at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the earnabike.org bike kitchen gets going, I speculate patchable
> tubes in otherwise good condition would be welcome there...?
>
> I'm bummed to hear that B&L can only take tires...I end up with more
> tubes (most with multiple patches that finally fail in some unfixable
> way) than tires or so it seems.  Although, the amount of material in
> the tires is obviously greater.
>
> On 8/10/07, JonIsaacs at aol.com <JonIsaacs at aol.com> wrote:
> >> In a message dated 8/10/2007 7:20:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >> mberry2 at cox.net writes:
> >>
> > > How about a barrel at a Bike Shop where folks drop off their punctured
> > tubes and others grab them for repair.
> > >
> >
> >  Mike:
> >
> >  I like that idea.  I don't patch tubes any more, I was never much good at
> > finding a leak on the road and my eyes and ears aren't quite what they used
> > to be so things are only getting worse.
> >
> >  I give mine to a neighbor who patches them for his own use...  Of course he
> > is in his 80's so I guess that says something about my skills as a tire
> > patcher.  :-)
> >
> >  Jon
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