All good advice, as far as recycling tubes, Pedro's has a program where if you send them some spare tubes, they'll send you a mini-wedge made out of an old tube. The shop where I work on Sats. sent them a whole bike box full of old tubes and they sent us three or four of these wedges. Shipping costs about as much as the wedges, but at least we were environmentally considerate!
Oh yeah, the wedge looks cool too!
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