Incidental uses for cycle stuff

[iandriver]

1. Couldn't find the thin spanner to change my angle grinder disc. A shimano cone spanner was perfect
2. Forget tool belts, old cycling shirts with the three biig poçkets at the back rock!

Feel free to add your own

[fausto copy]

2. Forget tool belts, old cycling shirts with the three big poçkets at the back rock!

Worn back to front I take it.

[iandriver]

2. Forget tool belts, old cycling shirts with the three big poçkets at the back rock!

Worn back to front I take it.

That's the spirit! I'll give that a go

[bovlomov]

Old bicycle wheels keep squirrels from digging up bulbs.

[CliveyT]

Old inner tubes get used as the hinges for the top of bird boxes.

My front light and a white sheet have been used in the past for a quick (and surprisingly effective) demonstration of moth trapping

[loch eck steve]

Old mountian bike tyres cut up and tacked under shoes make for good grip in winter !

[mjr]

I can't think of many. Battery front lights get used as small hand torches a lot, the overglasses get used for general eye protection when cutting, sanding and so on and the few specialist tools like BB sockets and freewheel extractors don't seem much use for other things. Other than that, most bags are general-purpose and the panniers aren't as good as backpacks or satchels when not cycling.

[freiston]

Back in the eighties, my Lyotard platform pedals made excellent roadside crown cap bottle openers

[mrjemm]

...overglasses get used for general eye protection when cutting, sanding and so on...

A cheaper option is to use safety glasses for cycling (and safer for the job too!). Usually provided free at work, or only a few quid at a PPE supplier. What I wear when bugs are out, or more relevantly now, in heavyish rain.

[iandriver]

Back in the eighties, my Lyotard platform pedals made excellent roadside crown cap bottle openers

Now that's priceless

Perhaps one of these http://wisecrackerltd.com/collections/b ... inum-black might be an addition to the touring bike......

[gaz]

Old spokes can be bent into all manner of hook style tools, old inner tubes to cover lengths of chain.

I've found outer cables useful for freeing obstructions round the toilet U-bend, although they aren't useful for much else afterwards .

There's a short length of inner cable spliced into the lifting mechanism of our garden parasol when its original bowden cable snapped.

The narrow jaws on the adjustable spanner of my Cooltool multi-tool are very handy for a variety of jobs that would otherwise need something more specialist.

[mrjemm]

Bought an Edinburgh cycles mini socket set (down to £9.99 from £19.99 IIRC) a week or 2 ago. So far only used it to fix the bed frame and tighten the toilet flush mount. Incidentally, the bad fault was stripped threads on the bolts holding the headboard on (using the headboard to shift the bed to paint behind was not clever), which I replaced with some M6 from my bike bits box, spaced with presta valve 'nuts'.

Got Charlie the Bikemonger branded wisecrackers on 2 of my bikes.

[Redvee]

Got Charlie the Bikemonger branded wisecrackers on 2 of my bikes.

Ditto, have had one for a few years from when I was on holiday in the Swanage area and bagged a Timbuk2 bag for £30 off him.

I've got an old gear cable looped through the holes in my locker in work and secured with a single 3 amp connector union, great to hook things I need quickly that would otherwise be in my pannier or under all the other stuff in my locker.

[Audax67]

When I made a standard lamp out of oak years ago I hitched an old wheel up to a beam in the barn and hung the bits from it, draped the lot in polythene and put a bowl of ammonia inside. Hey presto, fumed oak.

Held numerous bits of furniture together during assembly with old inner tubes.

Obsolete battery lights are still fine for walking the dogs at night, search for Dad's hearing-aid under the bed, etc.

I use a rear light if I get up at bladder o'clock. Adequate for walking to & from the loo, doesn't disturb the missus, doesn't destroy night vision and doesn't wake me up as much as a white light would.

[9494arnold]

How long did it take you to teach the Squirrels how to build wheels?