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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Getting all "Greener Than Thou" on your bike

It's certainly true that bikes are a great alternative to cars in terms of the "footprint" each leaves on the planet. Obviously cars use tons of steel, paint, rubber, plastic, and heavy metals -- and that's before they ever gas up for that first drive off the lot.


On the other hand, bikes are not entirely green. After all, they require the same sorts of materials. And if they weigh as much as some of my bikes... well, I certainly have no good basis to be a self-righteous jerk about bikes being morally pure.


So it's good to see that little boutique shops like Worksman Cycles -- makers of work-bikes and utility riders based in Queens, New York -- are making the extra effort by installing solar panels and high-efficiency lighting.




Let's not ride on our laurels, which make for awful saddle sores.

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