Austrian company Tubolito is known for manufacturing bicycle inner tubes from TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane), a high-tech ...

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” opined the nineteenth-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Almost. His actual quote is less pithy—“If a man can make ...

For the average rider, inner tubes have been one of the most enduring and unchanging parts of bicycle design over the decades. They’re made of rubber, they have a Schrader or Presta valve, and they ...

Tubolito of Austria is working on a “nanogenerator” built into one of its trademark orange bicycle inner tubes that powers a wireless tire pressure sensor. “It’s like a mini dynamo,” said Tubolito’s ...

The highway that runs near my house is covered with people riding bikes on the weekends. The local cyclists ride in packs with 20 or more bikes in one group at times and each weekend I see more than a ...

If you’re a mountain biker, then you are no doubt aware of the increasing popularity of tubeless tires. For the uninitiated, these are tires that have no inner tubes, but that are instead partially ...

Don’t throw away your old bike inner tubes: Use them to make something instead. Old, punctured rubber tubes are the secret MacGyver tool lurking in almost everybody’s tool box, and here at the Lab we ...

If you’re a cyclist that lives in an area with poorly-maintained infrastructure, you’ll likely have plenty of punctured inner tubes begging for reuse. Consider crafting them into a rugged, ...