I enjoy pointless nitpicking about details as much as the next person, but low tech magazine seems to always combine that enjoyment with some wrongheaded but fe

I enjoy pointless nitpicking about details as much as the next person, but low tech magazine seems to always combine that enjoyment with some wrongheaded but feel-good opinions that spoil it for me. > The globalization and automation of the bicycle industry make bikes less sustainable. He doesn't really support this claim. Later: > Reverting to local and less automated bike manufacturing is a requirement for sustainable bicycles. The main reason is not the extra energy use generated by transportation and machinery, which is relatively small. For example, shipping from China adds around 0.7 to 1.2 gCO2/km for shared bicycles. 8 More importantly, domestic and manual bike manufacturing is essential to make repair and refurbishment the more economically attractive option. By definition, repairing is local and manual, so it quickly becomes more expensive than producing a new vehicle in a large-scale, automated factory. This seems a bit of a broken window fallacy. We need to stop importing automated bicycles so that bikes are more expensive and expensive manual repairs are price competitive. Personally, I'd like to see more automated manufacture of e-bikes. Sure, make the parts standard and interchangeable but frankly absolutely nothing brought up here rises to the level of an actual problem. More bikes is basically an unalloyed good regardless.