Related Clues:

• Like some old tires
• Like most bicycle tires
• Went downriver, one way
• Floated downstream, in a way
• Floated down the river, in a way
• Took the London subway
• On the way up first appearance enclosed in pipe
• Went leisurely downriver, perhaps
• Went down the Chattahoochee, parhaps
• Floated down a river, say