Front Wheel Strap

I had some un-repairable tire tubes due to some nasty nasty flats, but I just couldn't throw them away, cause they were almost in mint condition except for the flats. So I tried to  find a use for these things and found out that someone was utilizing his stuff to their full potent. So I borrowed his idea and made some Front Wheel Straps.




I measured my tubes and they were about 20mm (700*18-23C)
so I went on buying some of those buckles with some other stuff along.

The top four use Plastic Buckles with Tri-Glides and strap keepers, which is good enough for the purpose, but I felt they were a bit fiddly locking on.
The extra length of the rigid buckle just didn't seem to be right.

So I tried out some Tent Pole Hooks with some Extra wide Square Rings (and of course Tri-Glides) and it was kind of satisfactory. So to say, it was a bit more flexible when locking on or off, but I cant say that was a huge improvement. Either way you have to use both hands to lock and one hand to lock off.


















So it looks like this.
And, after making this, I found out that the length of the strap was almost that of my ankle, that it could be used as a Leg Strap (the thing you use to prevent your trousers from getting chewed by your crank & chain, making your trousers get filthy , and sometimes unwearable.)

Meaning,
When you're off the bike, use it as a Front Wheel Strap,
When you're on the bike, use it as a Leg Strap!

Eureka!


And of course, you can still apply the same ideas for differnt version of Kent's rear rack strap.