Thursday, March 2, 2023

Bicycle Sustainability Article at Low<–Tech Magazine


Article here.
(and if the link seems broken, try again later; it is after all a micro-site run off an aging laptop and a solar panel)

It's an interesting breakdown about the total CO2 emissions for steel, aluminum, and carbon bike frames (you can think of CO2 as a proxy for energy input if you prefer); how bikeshare programs are working out (not so well); ebikes and their peculiar issues (gak); and the big one that eventually gets me to buy new bike$, planned incompatibility and ob$ole$cence of part$.

I'm going bike $hopping next week.  After a decade riding on leaky-assed air shocks, it's good to see some new designs using coil springs coming along, and a decent outside possibility of chromoly steel suspension frame in my future.  Time will tell, but there will be pictures aplenty here when something finally happens.

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