Portland company does more with bike chains than most people do with entire bike
 
When most people get a flat tire their first impulse is to curse the heavens. When Portland-based Graham Berghe got a flat he decided to start a business. The northwest is nutty like that. Berghe's Resource Revival recycles old bicycle parts into useful household products including the S-Curve and Tea Light candle holders you see here. Once all curved automotive timing chains and bicycle cog flowers, they have magically been reproduced as stylish, pronouncable decorations that have a strangely attractive utilitarian elegance to them. Resource Revival also uses discarded bike chains and inner tubes to makes cool things like clocks, tables, CD racks, and its famous bottle opener. So next time you get a flat, rejoice! It just might be opportunity knocking.