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New wave of bicycle fashions is the thing I envision now everyone buying new bikes every 3 years
by szundi 3y ago
New wave of bicycle fashions is the thing I envision now everyone buying new bikes every 3 years
- jeffbee 3y agoYou could buy a fancy-ass bike twice a month for a decade and still not have discarded as much material as is used to build 1 electric car.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThere's a fair bit of evidence that planned obsolescence was practiced in the bicycle industry before being adopted by General Motors, in the sense of annual design and styling changes. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#History> Citing: The most benevolent machine: a historical assessment of cycles in Canada, by Sharon Babaian, p. 97: <https://archive.org/details/mostbenevolentma0000baba/page/96/mode/2up?q=annual+model https://archive.org/details/mostbenevolentma0000baba/page/96...>
- elric 3y agoLowtechmagazine has an interesting write up on that: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycl...