A nearly all (">90%") plastic bike is interesting, and I guess if you're a plastics company that wants to create a bike it makes sense, but the end product does not seem very compelling to me. 17 kg, 1200 EUR, one size, proprietary parts, and only 50% recycled. A comparable aluminum bike beats it in every metric except maybe fatigue life(?).
It's a terrible bicycle. If it was extremely affordable because it's mostly recycled plastic acquired for cheap, then it would make sense as a product but the 1200 EUR price tag is absolutely demented.
I don’t get this. Marketing this as an urban bike makes no sense. It’s heavy, looks like it’ll be awful to maintain because so much is custom, and it’s relatively expensive. I rode fixed gears for years because they’re light, easy to carry up stairs, and can take being knocked about or banged up by other cyclists locking their bikes up next to one.
Even something of equal weight like the legendary Surly Long-Haul Trucker is going to last longer and be more practical in every possible application. Maybe if you live somewhere costal and salt will corrode the steel or something it makes sense? I have a hard time believing this would fair better though.
Every "urban" city has at least one bicycle co-op in it full of used bicycles for sale that are lighter, easier to repair, fit better, far cheaper, and best of all already exist and do not need to be manufactured.
Reduce and reuse come before recycle for a reason. This is greenwashing, not environmentalism.
Building the wheels and frame out of plastic is a fun gimmick, but they're selling this as a low maintenance option that "doesn't rust or require lubrication".
If they really have an all-plastic drivetrain that competes with carbon steel, that seems like a wonderful advance in materials science or mechanical engineering and we'll soon be seeing plenty more applications of this miracle material.
we need to stop pretending that this sustainable-washing shit is sustainable. this does not solve "the bicycle". its just another bicycle. not even a better one- its worse. why? plastic is the new asbestos. it drips microplastic everywhere. we dont recycle asbestos into bicycles for a reason. contain or plastic brain
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 38.9 ms ] threadEven something of equal weight like the legendary Surly Long-Haul Trucker is going to last longer and be more practical in every possible application. Maybe if you live somewhere costal and salt will corrode the steel or something it makes sense? I have a hard time believing this would fair better though.
Also if you trade it in when it breaks, they only give you €50?
Reduce and reuse come before recycle for a reason. This is greenwashing, not environmentalism.
If they really have an all-plastic drivetrain that competes with carbon steel, that seems like a wonderful advance in materials science or mechanical engineering and we'll soon be seeing plenty more applications of this miracle material.