Possible Clues:

• Secondhand tire
• Radical claims to be in Paris or Tyre
• Used rubber
• Alsatian to be handled by militant plod again
• Go back over (one's route) - mend(ed) tyre
• Tyre giving outwardly reasonable pace
• One brought back to work about to put foot down
• Bird goes round picking up drugs and used rubber
• Recover for the gripping part of a journey
• Rubber done 14 down to be rendered into heater?