Tuesday's Ten: New Uses for Old Bicycle Wheel

I've been doing a lot of cleaning out of stuff in our basement lately, and one of these items was an old bicycle wheel from years back....I'll bet the bicycle is long gone, surely it belonged to one of our sons who are all long gone from our home. At the same time I recently read an article about reusing items for something other than that for which they were intended.  So today I'm going to list ten new uses for an old bicycle wheel.

Roll it along the street using a stick as a guide.  (I've seen this in old movies, have you?) Good to  practice balance and coordination.

Hang it on the wall as art....maybe spray paint it first?  How about all black or all silver?  Sounds pretty contemporary to me.

Remove some the spokes, and use it as a way to keep things sorted.......like different screws, or jewelry, or beads.

Hang it from the ceiling as a flat base support for a mobile.

Hang it from the ceiling and attach balloons for a party........for kids, make the balloons low enough so they have to walk through the balloons.

Remove some spokes and turn it into some sort of game......tossing bean bags in areas with different point values for example.

Attach it to the ceiling as the background for a ceiling light.

Remove spokes as desired and plant a herb garden in it laid onto the ground.

Use it as a Christmas Star decoration......running lights in a star shape then attaching it to some surface outside, like garage side or porch.

Turn it into a roulette wheel for an at home casino game.

Okay, some of these are far fetched a little, but they are all possible with the right imagination and tools.   I did none of them.......I gave the wheel away at a garage sale and maybe that person eyed it with some really unique idea in mind.  Have any ideas for this bicycle wheel?  Post here.........it would be fun to read some others.  And next time you're faced with some item you no longer have use for, maybe thinking of alternate uses before you pitch it may be a fun idea. 

 

 

Comments

[Anne Copeland]

You're probably too young to remember the hippy days when women did weaving and wrapping on bicycle wheels and they were hung as art. I even saw some at art fairs for sale. Some were pretty elaborately woven and had beads and leather sometimes. Peace and many blessings, Annie