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If you could get your bike serviced using only eco friendly biodegradable fluids, would you choose this over a regular service, and would you be prepared to pay a little more for the use of biodegradable products to be used to facilitate such a service?
I've come across a company proposing to offer this as a green option to regular servicing, and wonder if it's worth paying extra to get it done. They reckon the deposits left on trails from the constant loss nature of bicycle lubrication on drivetrain and suspension components, poses a risk of potential contamination of the surrounding area that may harm the area in future.
I'm not sure about this, but it sounds god in principle.
What are your thoughts?
invented non-existant problem IMO.
My chain doesn't drip because I oil it properly.
I'm not sure about this, but it sounds god in principle.
And God did spaketh, "Yeay, the piddly little amount of Finish Line Wet Lube deposited on man's Eartly trails doeseth not even register on My Son(of God)ar screen."
And He saw that it was good.
No, I suspect the environmental impact of my bike is non-existent in the overall scheme of things.
You win the "spot the Freudian slip" competition.
An ice sculpture of Chipps packaged in ice is winging it's way to as i type. lol
That's what I thought. It's being proposed as a new service at a trail centre. Most visitors to trail centres drive hundereds of miles to get there. Why would they then decide to wait for their bike to be stripped of all of it's lube and get it replaced with "green lube"?
I agree with using green lubes, and if it's done as part of a regular service, I think it's a good idea.
But these guys seem to be portraying it as a way of preserving trails for future use.
I don't get it, which is why I asked.
[url= http://www.thebikechain.co.uk/store/product/21354/Pedros-Chainj-Chain-Lube-12oz/ ]Just buy your own bio-degradable chain lube?[/url]
The inevitable driving to 'Puffer, SITS, Glentress every weekend makes our sport far from eco-friendly. Never mind shipping all the kit from the factories in Taiwan in the first place.
A tiny bit of GT85 on the little-spotted trail-side snootle-bugs makes zero difference.
Pure hype.
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