Bike Tire Belt

Tire belts are awesome!

this is a great project to do when you replace bike tires, and the product is absolutely great

I am definitely not the first one to do this project but this is my take and I'm really happy with how it came out.

So here it is. I hope you enjoy

- a bike tire

- an appropriate size buckle; here is the one i used

- scissors

- utility knife

tire selection is important, for my belts i used a very worn Kenda Kross tread, and a brand new tire that i was given ( it did not fit my bike)

old tires work better than new

street tires will work better that trail tires

the width of both tires i used was 1.95 inches or less

to cut the tire I punctured through the side wall of the tire with my utility knife, so that I had a slit that a pair scissor fit through, to cut the rest of the side wall off, I repeated this on the other side of the tire so that both side walls were cut off.

I then used the scissors to cut the loop of tire tread into a long strip

here it is important to know what size belt your buckle will work with. The buckles that I bought was designed to fit 1.25 inch piece of webbing.

So that was the width that i cut my tire tread to.

for the kross tread tire this meant I needed to cut the nobby edge of the tread.

when cutting the edge of the tire off I try to I keep the scissors at an angle so that when the belt is done it will sit flatter.

size the belt to you or whoever it is for.

for me this it was comfortable wrap around the waist line of my pants with 2-6 inches of overlap

if you see fit, trim the end of the belt to a rounded point or just round it, attach the belt buckle and you're done.

wear your work proudly