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(?).
avtolik•29m ago
My first bike bought with my first salaries (about 2-3 months) just turned 20 years old. It's a basic aluminum hardtail MTB. Still going strong - I do about 2-3k kms per year.
alright2565•22m ago
Pretty much. I thought that maybe this is an electric bike, in which case the weight might be OK, but no, this is unusable anywhere with hills.
As a quick reminder, metals can be recycled indefinitely. Plastic cannot, you always have to include some virgin material.
simjnd•23m ago
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.
taitems•2m ago
Their poor little servers aren't coping well with the attention. The worst is a 1,004kb image so it's not excessively large.
daemonologist•59m ago
dang•50m ago