Eco Friendly Products

quigongrim

I'm trying to kit my bike out with some eco-friendly gear. So far I've come across Green Oil and the Tacx Bio Bottles, now my search is getting a little harder.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

mak3m

muc off bike cleaner is fully biodegradable better than nasty detergents

FunBus

Not actually eco friendly, but these definately give off the same viiiiiibes maaaaann

http://www.cyclelife.com/Product.aspx?p ... 28&pg=4875

Raymondavalon

quigongrim wrote:

I'm trying to kit my bike out with some eco-friendly gear. So far I've come across Green Oil and the Tacx Bio Bottles, now my search is getting a little harder.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

The best products contain toxic solvents, so there's no compromise for stuff like PTFE and good old mineral oil based products and their synthetic equivalents..

One recommendation: Tree huggers... they should be drowned in crude oil...

GWick

I used Green Oil chain oil last Sunday and hung the bike up in the garage.

Now the garage is linked to the kitchen and I left the door open as I was going back and forth. Minutes later the missus went loopy about a smell of sewers, drains etc and it was narrowed down to the chain oil. I could smell oil, different but not unpleasant.

Upshot is my mate now owns a nearly full bottle of chain oil as the missus said it was her or the oil. Although I was tempted, the missus won.

Will be taking the bike out this weekend so I'll let you know how it gets on. I must stress that I didnt think the smell was that bad so dont let that put you off

Pedros chainJ oil is meant to be biodegradeable and I've bought a bottle to replace the Green Oil but havent used it yet

cooldad

Bikes are already probably the most eco friendly form of transport. Why go to extremes?

Those bottles biodegrade in between 1 and 5 years. I have water bottles a good few years old. If they actually degrade in a year, I bet the evil petro chemicals and energy used in the manufacture make them less green than keeping a normal bottle for a few years and chucking them in the recycle bin when you're finished with them.

Eco marketing babble.

Bar Shaker

I would like to embrace this and have been thinking of knitting my next full suss frame out of sea weed.

Has anyone got any tips... Oh sorry, I just can't keep it up. Biking is already green, lets not lose the plot.

butcher of bakersfield

Vegetable oil? It's surely got to be a lot better than not oiling your bike at all..

Ultimately though, if you want to be a true enviro-friendly hippy, rather than a trendy wannabe with a special bottle of expensive oil to flash to your mates, I'd suggest recycling bikes. The production of your bike will do more damage than a thousand years of riding it.

j_l

Raymondavalon wrote:

One recommendation: Tree huggers... they should be drowned in crude oil...

+1

mudsucker

how about a bamboo frame?

http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm


on the same website, how sweet is this!!

http://www.bmeres.com/rivetedframe.htm

scotto

J L wrote:

Raymondavalon wrote:

One recommendation: Tree huggers... they should be drowned in crude oil...

+1

+1

Anonymous

Raymondavalon wrote:

One recommendation: Tree huggers... they should be drowned in crude oil...

Trees are for crashing into, not hugging.

quigongrim

mudsucker wrote:

how about a bamboo frame?

http://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm


on the same website, how sweet is this!!

http://www.bmeres.com/rivetedframe.htm

That is freakin' sweet! I stumbled across this site trying to show a friend...

http://www.bikebamboo.com/

Northwind

Honestly, don't worry about it, the environmental impact of anything you put on your bike is utterly irrelevant compared to the environmental impact of manufacturing them and riding them, particularily if you drive or fly places to ride.