Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 51 minutes ago
Bike tyre speaker
pricklysauce.com
I had a lump of mountain bike tyre laying around on my creative bench and right beside it an old small speaker that I had kicking about after an electronic dissection...
...they seemed to fit.
This is a super easy project to make and I wanted it that way, no extra electronics, wirless, wi-fi to get in the way...just rugged.
Get an old mountain bike trye, I think this one was a 26x1.9 with good tread though had a tear in the sidewall.
Cut a section out at about 240mm long cutting up to the and along the wire edge.
Find an old speaker 50mm in diameter, not going to be huge sound as only 0.25watts 8 ohm.
This will need to be glued to the tyre and to help with this you will need to make a timber enclosure that the speaker will be glued into and that will give a greater area for glueing.
I took a scrap piece of redwood wider than the speaker and turned it down on the lathe, turning out the inside for the speaker to snugly fit.
Finish the outside to the exact diameter of teh speaker as you don't want to see ant of the is when it is all glued up.
I put ballast in my tyre speaker to give it a bit of heft and to make sure that it sits in the correct position and dosen't rock over onto its side.
I made lead shot with a small hole punch and a scrap piece of lead flashing. Sand or rice would work well as an alternative.
Strip the ends of a couple pieces of wire, tin and solder to the speaker.
Drill a hole in the timber enclosure, pock the wires through and hot glue the speaker in place.
I added shrink wrap tubing to the wires so that they are protected from the ballast. Add a loose piece of shrink wrap for the jack end.
Tin and solder the wires to the cylindrical 3.5mm audio jack, and shrink the wrap over the connections.
Apply some rubber glue to the mid inner edge on one side of the tyre and place the audio jack flush with the outside of the tyre wall, clamp tight and leave to dry.
Add the ballast, apply glue to all of the inner tyre edges and push all the edges together and onto the speaker enclosure, make sure that the speaker id sitting nicely flush with the tyre ends.
Tightly clamp all together and leave to dry.
Remove the clamps...
...plug in...
...and play some music.
Cool.
Music - BirdBrainz by Otis MacDonald available free use through YouTube
If you would like a step by step 'How To' of how to make your own Bike Tyre Speaker then please visit the links below :
Instructables - instructables.com/id/Bike-Tyre-Speaker
Make - community.makezine.com/share/pricklysauce/bike-tyre-speaker-fc0f81?ref=channel&ref_id=18265_trending___&offset=0
I aim to upload a new video every few weeks, often from materials that we chuck away, with the projects ranging from electronics to woodwork...and often just for the fun of it, or I had a cool idea...
I aim to make them all interesting and I hope they may inspire you to give it a go, take a look at your rubbish bin and make yourself something great from it.
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Bike tyre speaker
pricklysauce.com
I had a lump of mountain bike tyre laying around on my creative bench and right beside it an old small speaker that I had kicking about after an electronic dissection...
...they seemed to fit.
This is a super easy project to make and I wanted it that way, no extra electronics, wirless, wi-fi to get in the way...just rugged.
Get an old mountain bike trye, I think this one was a 26x1.9 with good tread though had a tear in the sidewall.
Cut a section out at about 240mm long cutting up to the and along the wire edge.
Find an old speaker 50mm in diameter, not going to be huge sound as only 0.25watts 8 ohm.
This will need to be glued to the tyre and to help with this you will need to make a timber enclosure that the speaker will be glued into and that will give a greater area for glueing.
I took a scrap piece of redwood wider than the speaker and turned it down on the lathe, turning out the inside for the speaker to snugly fit.
Finish the outside to the exact diameter of teh speaker as you don't want to see ant of the is when it is all glued up.
I put ballast in my tyre speaker to give it a bit of heft and to make sure that it sits in the correct position and dosen't rock over onto its side.
I made lead shot with a small hole punch and a scrap piece of lead flashing. Sand or rice would work well as an alternative.
Strip the ends of a couple pieces of wire, tin and solder to the speaker.
Drill a hole in the timber enclosure, pock the wires through and hot glue the speaker in place.
I added shrink wrap tubing to the wires so that they are protected from the ballast. Add a loose piece of shrink wrap for the jack end.
Tin and solder the wires to the cylindrical 3.5mm audio jack, and shrink the wrap over the connections.
Apply some rubber glue to the mid inner edge on one side of the tyre and place the audio jack flush with the outside of the tyre wall, clamp tight and leave to dry.
Add the ballast, apply glue to all of the inner tyre edges and push all the edges together and onto the speaker enclosure, make sure that the speaker id sitting nicely flush with the tyre ends.
Tightly clamp all together and leave to dry.
Remove the clamps...
...plug in...
...and play some music.
Cool.
Music - BirdBrainz by Otis MacDonald available free use through YouTube
If you would like a step by step 'How To' of how to make your own Bike Tyre Speaker then please visit the links below :
Instructables - instructables.com/id/Bike-Tyre-Speaker
Make - community.makezine.com/share/pricklysauce/bike-tyre-speaker-fc0f81?ref=channel&ref_id=18265_trending___&offset=0
I aim to upload a new video every few weeks, often from materials that we chuck away, with the projects ranging from electronics to woodwork...and often just for the fun of it, or I had a cool idea...
I aim to make them all interesting and I hope they may inspire you to give it a go, take a look at your rubbish bin and make yourself something great from it.
Why not subscribe to catch all of the videos as soon as they are uploaded : youtube.com/channel/UCL2soflHdZyT0PgrVxakxWA?sub_confirmation=1
Visit my website to see what I am creating at pricklysauce.com
Or Like my Facebook page : facebook.com/pricklysauce
Follow me on Twitter : twitter.com/Pricklysauce
In pictures on Instragram instagram.com/pricklysauce
Hot news! I am now on Instructables : instructables.com/member/pricklysauce
Thanks for watching and please come back to watch some more.
