Pole Bicycles: Why aren’t we going for carbon frames

[deanbean]

An eye opening post from Pole Bicycles. Makes me question whether I should be buying a carbon frame!

https://www.polebicycles.com/why-arent-we-going-for-carbon-frames/

[Mongooser]

An eye opening post from Pole Bicycles. Makes me question whether I should be buying a carbon frame!

https://www.polebicycles.com/why-arent-we-going-for-carbon-frames/

kinda dodge how know one ever mentioned the waste methods...

[Omumborombonga]

Interesting article. Thanks for sharing. Get's u thinking

[FCH]

Luckily bauxite mining leaves no trace....

[Omumborombonga]

Luckily bauxite mining leaves no trace....

Good point and the processing therafter is hardly what u would call environmentaly friendly.

[Kalahari Vegmot]

Great!

 

Really amazing to see a company standing firm on its values.

[FCH]

I do get what they are saying ito carbon; but lets be honest, none is ideal. Aluminium mining aside, the processing is horendously energy hungry.

 

Good point and the processing therafter is hardly what u would call environmentaly friendly.

[deanbean]

I do get what they are saying ito carbon; but lets be honest, none is ideal. Aluminium mining aside, the processing is horendously energy hungry.

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35340528

 

In other words Steel is Really good????

 

I think the concerns are more about the recycling, or lack thereof

[FCH]

True on recycling; unfortunately resmelting is more energy ussage...but that is vs non recycling.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35340528

In other words Steel is Really good

I think the concerns are more about the recycling, or lack thereof

[PhilipV]

How for they go all the way down the design process path to where they begin selecting frame producers and only then pick up on the waste issue?

[Mr X]

Ban carbon and alu bikes and only allow steel frames for now. The time has come, in fact we are at the tipping point, for mankind to take drastic action on sustainability. Nature has had enough of mankind`s bs and punishment is due.

[eddy]

 

In other words Steel is Really good

 

I think the concerns are more about the recycling, or lack thereof

 

 

I have recycled a number of steel frames.

 

First they went to my girlfriend, then to my gardener and then when I needed a LeJeune for the Tour of Ara, I got it back.....

[Shebeen]

uh puhleeze. it just looks like the accounting dept redflagged their carbon venture and now they're looking fror a way out.

 

the only way this post makes sense.

 

"POLE bicycles now only in bamboo, for the planet"

 

http://www.calfeedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Bamboo-MTB.jpg

[Slowbee]

all those pesticides to keep the bamboo growing

[Shebeen]

all those pesticides to keep the bamboo growing

obviously it's ORGANIC FAIRTRADE bamboo grown with only the best panda poo fertilizer

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

Wonder how much of it was economies of scale and just trying to put a positive spin on it.

That frame he is man handling looks well thought out but damn expensive.........