Originally Posted by moxfyre

One thing that would be nice is if the people who don't patch their tubes would give them away instead of just throwing them out. Maybe environmentally-minded bike shops could collect these tubes and put them in a bin marked "free"? Or sell them for, say, $1 each as-is? (Assuming a new tube costs about $5.)

Presumably this would only cut into their sales a little bit, since only the stingy gearhead DIY-types would buy them. And it would get some of us Nashbar-lovers into the LBS more... and might even result in increased sales for the LBS. I'd definitely pop into the local shops and grab a bag of 700C tubes needing patches rather than order them off Nashbar!

What do people think?