What do do with borked wheels?

[markharry66]

ergghhh as an ex fisherman cant think of anything worse than eating something thats been in uk waters.
Remember a few years ago fishing in the rain on a small local south east london river. It rained and you could see syringes floating on the top of the water.
No thanks and each to their own.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Why not up-cycle them into an attractive flower basket, xmas tree or ocean going liner?

 

[Booyaa]

ergghhh as an ex fisherman cant think of anything worse than eating something thats been in uk waters.
Remember a few years ago fishing in the rain on a small local south east london river. It rained and you could see syringes floating on the top of the water.
No thanks and each to their own.

That's mostly a London problem though. Not all of the UK is disgusting.

 

[Ganymede]

Missed opportunity there!

Next time eh?

ergghhh as an ex fisherman cant think of anything worse than eating something thats been in uk waters.
Remember a few years ago fishing in the rain on a small local south east london river. It rained and you could see syringes floating on the top of the water.
No thanks and each to their own.

I eat fish out of a local river all the time. Yum. I can't say I'd eat out of Deptford Creek but even the London rivers are getting cleaner, so maybe one day....

 

[Psycolist]

Spokes are very useful as improvised tools such as emergency back-scratcher.

and don't forget getting down that ruddy plaster cast for a good old scratch

 

[Psycolist]

& I would bend the rims if scrapping, mainly because they would take up less room while being stored, who would take just a pair of rims to the scrappy ? In my limited experience, y'need a lot of rims to make the journey worthwhile. But taps, now any old taps you have knocking about in the shed, they are well worth popping to your local scrap dealer.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

& I would bend the rims if scrapping, mainly because they would take up less room while being stored, who would take just a pair of rims to the scrappy ? In my limited experience, y'need a lot of rims to make the journey worthwhile. But taps, now any old taps you have knocking about in the shed, they are well worth popping to your local scrap dealer.

Aye, that's why I chucked them In with the scrap at my client's machine shop. Might be worth a few brownie points too

 

[Poacher]

Re-use the hubs if in good condition, cut the rims in half at the valve hole and pull apart, offer them to any gardeners you know as cloche frames; see here:
http://www.gardenerscafe.com/threads/gardening-boab-style.264/#post-17132

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Re-use the hubs if in good condition, cut the rims in half at the valve hole and pull apart, offer them to any gardeners you know as cloche frames; see here:
http://www.gardenerscafe.com/threads/gardening-boab-style.264/#post-17132

The hubs are going to a good home courtesy of CycleChat...