Zip / Cable Ties - Share Your Geeky Innovations

Not necessarily bike related, pictures preferred, share your incredibly sad zip/cable tie creativity here.

To get the ball rolling, here are my zip-tie-zips. The metal fatigued on the pulling part of my overshoe zips, and they were too fucking fiddly to fasten using only the zip stub. So I improvised:

ditto, but for the flies on my aging cut off corduroys
and replace the zip ties for some old bits of metal wire from the shed

and one of my stem bolts snapped in my ahead, zip tie to the rescue .. my steerer only moves a few cm now ...... win

'07 Vanilla win in full effect.

I used some zip ties once for holding stuff. #innovateordie

Old cranks and chainring decided to unbond while on the winter tweed run.
20 cable ties later the bike was working again (for a little bit)

I love zip ties, I'm sure they can fix pretty much anything.

I also do that with zips when I break them which is often, but possibly my most useful use of zip ties at the moment is forming a chainstay bridge on a bike without one so I can fit full length fenders properly. No pics because the bike is not where I am.

I recently used some (plus old inner tube) to secure my bike to some kind of tripod stand thing I had and make a ghetto work stand.

Pro tip: neaten up sharp edges on cut zip ties by using nail clippers, giving a nice rounded cut end. No more sharp edge.

I've used them bridging between saddle rails to make a purchase point on which a rear LED can clip (aero / not much seatpost available otherwise for pusher-offer).

Yep, Zip-ties are very good for restraining people in basements.

Zip-tie inner tube to chainstay. Seally's No More Slaps.

Vintage Jersey Ride

Old tire wouldn't stay seated, so out came the duct tape.

I think it was Dante's bike.

Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerers ways BMMF.
We know you have a secret patenting license and will take our ideas and disappear to make millions of evil profit

This thread is so 2009 it hurts.

^^^ do you think the really little man eating the apple used cable ties to attach himself to the bag safely?

^^^ do you think the really little man eating the apple used cable ties to attach himself to the bag safely?

Proper LOL in the office.

Ultimate zip tie
"These cable ties have a built in small, easy-to-use release which means you can remove, reposition, reuse these over and over"

My zip tie cock ring seems to function just fine, getting it off however...

zip-tie winter tires

Vintage Jersey Ride

Old tire wouldn't stay seated, so out came the duct tape.

I think it was Dante's bike.

Great ride, great day, great repair. iirc there was also a lucozade bottle tyre boot used to bridge the blown out sidewall under the gaffa?
And yep, it was Dante, on that note, has anyone seen him lately? I can't recall when I last saw him or his good lady..

I mostly use zip ties for attaching cable to lighting truss. Boring, but practical, an old collegue of mine had most of the vital parts of his tree climbing harness held together with zipties after the stitching gave up. Not clever but he seemed to think it was ok.

zip-tie winter tires

Photo taken shortly before particularly annoying puncture.

This thread is so 2009 it hurts.

You're so 1989 it hurts.

My zip tie cock ring seems to function just fine, getting it off however...
http://elliepond.tumblr.com/post/6988394820/cable-ties

ouchy

^how the hell do you know this, that was quite shockingly funny.

castration of livestock with zip-tie like devices [past life in a dairy farm]