[Closed] Interesting articleon why Pole aren't going ahead with their Carbon bike frame

If we want to be truly eco-pious then the answer is to buy an old British lugged steel bike made with 531 or up..

A proper repaint, built up with new wheels etc, and it'll look like new and be good for another 50 years.

It'll stop the needless slaughter of all those little bauxites and carbonites. 🙂

I think this is where Robot Bike Co have got the edge. They are using tubes which should have far less carbon wastage instead of going for some crazy space age shape

What about NOx and particulates?
... too soon?

Exactly, making the bike in the first place is far from the worst environmentally destructive phase of its life. The CO2 is just the tip of an iceberg.

You'll use thousands of litres of water to wash it.

All that degreaser, paraffin, IPA, acetone, chain oil, brake fluid, grease ends up somewhere.

All that litter on the trails (no one admits it but someone drops it).

Yes avoiding buying a new bike if possible will help, but you're kidding yourself if you think mountainbiking is a 'green' hobby unless you really do ride an old steel singlespeed bike from your door and dont own a car.

Now individual strands are being laid down by robots and weaved directly together to create a 3D lattice .

We did this for a company from Taiwan...they cried at the cost of the weaving head alone, oddly the automated technology was from a company in the next country along to Finland,