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Upcycling Bike Parts and More Into Useful Objects
In Madagascar, the traditional tubular zither made of bamboo called valiha now uses the wire from a rear bicycle cable for strings.
I slice up old bike tubes too. I learned about re-use as a kid in Japan seeing the rubber tires on tugboats as fenders & the chains holding up the tailgate on trucks are covered in old tubes to prevent chafing & noise. It was common to see a lady coming around with a pushcart for you to trade in newspapers for toilet paper. She used the tubes for tie-down straps for the mounds of paper.
my experience as a biker of 50 years is that the rubber of inner tubes used as rubber bands fails quickly compared to normal rubber bands.