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I don't want to throw them into landfill.
Is there any way of re-purposing them?
Save them. They maybe handy one day!
Flog them to a part worn place?
I keep them in one of the cardboard boxes I've kept in case it comes in handy, in case they come in handy
Plenty of people recycle them into belts or other products, a Google should find someone.
Have you got any bike charities nearby? (E.g. https://www.bikeforgood.org.uk/ is one not far from me). They'll likely take old/part-worn tyres.
Burn Them.
Dump them in the nearest river.
Flytip them in a remote lane or woodland.
Seems like the norm around our patch 🙁
Some I have given to charity, if the tread is ok, but will no longer seal as a tubeless set up.
Plenty of folk would take part worms, totally gubbed ones can probably be repurposed as mentioned.
Just bin them, it's nothing in the grander scheme of things.
One of local bike shops takes them for recycling, I think you have to pay something like £1 per tyre to drop it off (or so I've been told).
Offer them on Facebook marketplace for free if collected
People will take them, they may not be able to afford a new tyre and theirs could be worn down to the canvas
It could help someone on a tight budget get their bike back on the road or keep someone riding until they can afford a new tyre
Or just use them to do lots of skids until they are down to the canvas!
I use part-worn tyres when I fix a bike up for a mate or for someone in need. You’ll probably find a local bike-related charity that can use them. I always make sure that on top of the safety checks that I give them a really good clean - so they look like new, no need for used stuff to look bad.
I just give them away to local people who want them. Offloaded about 15 26er tyres this year now all our bikes have bigger wheels.
I take mine to the local household waste recycling centre.
Plenty of local kids might appreciate them. If you know where they ride, take them round.
I have taken a quite a few to my LBS to be recycled by velorim.
But my LBS has now shut down due to an inability to get parts.
I cut them up and wrap the bike's chainstays.
Have also cabled tied them under my ebike motor as I smacked into rocks a few times
My household waste centre takes tyres (car and bike), although only one at a time.
Put them in the log burner?
I tend to move them around. New tyres on the good bike, part worns on the hack. Keep quite a few spares for when one fails and I want something to ride on right now. Anything that left, but still usable, gets passed onto friends. Worn out ones get cut up as frame protection or taken to the tip.
buy a boat and hang them off the side...obvs
Save them. They maybe handy one day!
I prefer the term horde 🙂
We moved house recently, the removal guys used a wheel barrow to shift my tyre mountain.
Im sure I'll use them 😂
I give em to my tight arsed East Lancs mates. They can make a set of tyres last about 17 years. “Mullet…..thats a penny farthing isnt it”??!!😁
Many of the places in the comments on this article will take part worn tyres. https://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/back-from-the-dead-our-bike-shop-doesnt-run-like-yours/
I used a load of properly knackered ones as a sort of roofing material for a storage box outside. Cut the beads off so they’d lie flatter, then stapled them in place. Wish I’d had enough to do the shed roof, that would have looked cool!
I used to make lobster pots and we used old motorbike tyres (not radials) to protect the edges from abrasion. Bike tyres could work on that, or something similar.
If it's a car tyre, break out the angle grinder and get another year out of 'em!
Chop the remaining knobs off and sell them as slicks or commuter tyres.😀
I keep mine in a nice pile on the patio.
MrsF is delighted.