{"id":1183,"date":"2011-11-16T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2011-11-16T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T06:07:11","slug":"seat-belt-bicycle-tire-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/seat-belt-bicycle-tire-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Seat Belt Bicycle Tire Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sick of getting flat bicycle tires, so on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikehacks.com\/bikehacks\/2011\/06\/seat-belt-bike-tire-hack.html\">reading a few seat belt bike tire liner tricks online<\/a>, I was ready to give it a shot.  Having a few donor seat belts (that also found their way onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/7cees.org\/\">7cees bus<\/a>) laying around certainly helped!<\/p>\n<p>The trick is pretty straightforward, get a seat belt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.09.54.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1184\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.09.54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.09.54.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.09.54-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChop to appropriate length:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.12.57.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1185\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.12.57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.12.57.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.12.57-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDeflate and debead half of the tire to insert the seat belt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.32.22.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1186\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.32.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.32.22.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.32.22-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nReinsert the tube:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.44.08.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1187\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.44.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.44.08.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.44.08-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFind someone with small hands to help reseat the tire and get things ready to go:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.48.02.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1188\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.48.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.48.02.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.48.02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTest!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.59.51.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1189\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.59.51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.59.51.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-09-30-14.59.51-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Just kidding, I don&#8217;t think this would survive the bandsaw for long. . .  although no flats to report in several months!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sick of getting flat bicycle tires, so on reading a few seat belt bike tire liner tricks online, I was ready to give it a shot. Having a few donor seat belts (that also found their way onto<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/seat-belt-bicycle-tire-upgrade\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[269,246,268,266,267],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-fix-a-flat","tag-inner-tube","tag-no-flats","tag-seat-belt","tag-tire-liner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}