diff --git a/Cargo-minimal.lock b/Cargo-minimal.lock
index 7731279e..835e598c 100644
--- a/Cargo-minimal.lock
+++ b/Cargo-minimal.lock
@@ -186,12 +186,6 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bytes"
-version = "1.10.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d71b6127be86fdcfddb610f7182ac57211d4b18a3e9c82eb2d17662f2227ad6a"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bzip2"
 version = "0.4.4"
@@ -381,12 +375,6 @@ version = "0.32.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e629b9b98ef3dd8afe6ca2bd0f89306cec16d43d907889945bc5d6687f2f13c7"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "hermit-abi"
-version = "0.3.9"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d231dfb89cfffdbc30e7fc41579ed6066ad03abda9e567ccafae602b97ec5024"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "hex-conservative"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -503,18 +491,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "adler2",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "mio"
-version = "1.0.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "80e04d1dcff3aae0704555fe5fee3bcfaf3d1fdf8a7e521d5b9d2b42acb52cec"
-dependencies = [
- "hermit-abi",
- "libc",
- "wasi",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
 version = "0.2.19"
@@ -778,16 +754,6 @@ version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0fda2ff0d084019ba4d7c6f371c95d8fd75ce3524c3cb8fb653a3023f6323e64"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "socket2"
-version = "0.5.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c970269d99b64e60ec3bd6ad27270092a5394c4e309314b18ae3fe575695fbe8"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "socks"
 version = "0.3.4"
@@ -859,24 +825,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2209a14885b74764cce87ffa777ffa1b8ce81a3f3166c6f886b83337fe7e077f"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
- "bytes",
- "libc",
- "mio",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "socket2",
- "tokio-macros",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.4.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "693d596312e88961bc67d7f1f97af8a70227d9f90c31bba5806eec004978d752"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo-recent.lock b/Cargo-recent.lock
index 984a5cd3..0eb54056 100644
--- a/Cargo-recent.lock
+++ b/Cargo-recent.lock
@@ -186,12 +186,6 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "bytes"
-version = "1.10.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d71b6127be86fdcfddb610f7182ac57211d4b18a3e9c82eb2d17662f2227ad6a"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bzip2"
 version = "0.4.4"
@@ -789,16 +783,6 @@ version = "0.4.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7a2ae44ef20feb57a68b23d846850f861394c2e02dc425a50098ae8c90267589"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "socket2"
-version = "0.5.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c970269d99b64e60ec3bd6ad27270092a5394c4e309314b18ae3fe575695fbe8"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "socks"
 version = "0.3.4"
@@ -870,26 +854,11 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0cc3a2344dafbe23a245241fe8b09735b521110d30fcefbbd5feb1797ca35d17"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
- "bytes",
  "io-uring",
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "slab",
- "socket2",
- "tokio-macros",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6e06d43f1345a3bcd39f6a56dbb7dcab2ba47e68e8ac134855e7e2bdbaf8cab8"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/bitreq/Cargo.toml b/bitreq/Cargo.toml
index 7533cac9..4f01d65d 100644
--- a/bitreq/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bitreq/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ webpki-roots = { version = "0.25.2", optional = true }
 rustls-webpki = { version = "0.101.0", optional = true }
 log = { version = "0.4.0", optional = true }
 # For the async feature:
-tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["net", "time", "io-util", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"], optional = true }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"], optional = true }
 tokio-rustls = { version = "0.24", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/bitreq/examples/async_hello.rs b/bitreq/examples/async_hello.rs
index 705f0843..eec019b8 100644
--- a/bitreq/examples/async_hello.rs
+++ b/bitreq/examples/async_hello.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 //! This example demonstrates the `async` feature.
 
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn main() -> Result<(), bitreq::Error> {
-    let response = bitreq::get("http://httpbin.org/get").send_async().await?;
+fn main() -> Result<(), bitreq::Error> {
+    let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+        .build()
+        .expect("failed to build Tokio runtime");
 
-    println!("Status: {}", response.status_code);
-    println!("Body: {}", response.as_str()?);
+    runtime.block_on(async {
+        let response = bitreq::get("http://httpbin.org/get").send_async().await?;
 
-    Ok(())
+        println!("Status: {}", response.status_code);
+        println!("Body: {}", response.as_str()?);
+
+        Ok(())
+    })
 }