Old bicycle inner tubes: cut into strips 2.5cm wide, these are great for tying things together.

All the rooms are separated by doors that are sealed with what look like bicycle inner tubes filled with air.

Cut a 5/8in wide band of bicycle inner tube.

A valve from a bicycle inner tube.

In the 1950s the enterprise launched in other sectors and it started making bicycle tubes and also devised new manufacturing techniques.

Traditional bicycle tubes cost $3, and the Milele tube cost just over $10, but can last up to five years.

Early snowboards were simply skateboards with the wheels taken off, with foot straps made of bicycle inner tubes.

The equipment needed to repair or replace a bicycle inner tube is comparatively minimal, and frequently carried by cyclists.

A valve from a bicycle inner tube, the longer the valve the better.

The earliest rubber condoms had a seam and were as thick as a bicycle inner tube.