Cycling in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

Here's a good article on how bicycle manufacturing is not - at the moment anyway - sustainable. Note, the website uses solar power and may go offline at times.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/0...again.html

Interesting. But pulling CO2 numbers from different studies (with different methodologies) does not provide a valid comparison.

In addition, he is focused on high-end road bikes (carbon fibre etc) rather than the commuter/hybrid variety that is by far the most common in the world.

Proprietary components? Yes, increasingly so. But the same thing has happened with cars, with phones, sound systems and so on. I don't think one can prevent that from happening.