Joining a fan belt

[ckerr]

So Ive this old bike, a Raleigh chippy, I started a build thread for it, finally getting round working on it.

retrorides.proboards.com/thread/164528#.VE5YZcmZ5ZI

Now the front tire is knackered, its none existent and I need to make / find a new one. I was thinking of using a fan belt... Chopped to length, plenty of tiger seal in the rim and then finding a way to join the belt back together and stuffing it in there. It only has to keep the front rim off the ground and I cant imagine the little man going to fast on it.

Open to suggestions or other ideas?

[composimmonite]

Try an industrial drive belt supplier - they might have something suitable or could make to order.

[jimmyj]

Or try a wheel chair repairer, someone must have a tyre somewhere.

[Midas]

Could you not cut down one of those solid Greenway bike tyres?

[chinno204]

Maybe one of these firms that restore old prams might be able to help?