A nearly all (">90%") plastic bike is interesting, and I guess if you're a plastics company that wants to create a bike it makes sense, but the end product does not seem very compelling to me. 17 kg, 1200 EUR, one size, proprietary parts, and only 50% recycled. A comparable aluminum bike beats it in every metric except maybe fatigue life(?).
  • rz2k
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Furthermore, aluminum can be recycled with a lot less greenwashing required.
My first bike bought with my first salaries (about 2-3 months) just turned 20 years old. It's a basic aluminum hardtail MTB. Still going strong - I do about 2-3k kms per year.
Pretty much. I thought that maybe this is an electric bike, in which case the weight might be OK, but no, this is unusable anywhere with hills.

As a quick reminder, metals can be recycled indefinitely. Plastic cannot, you always have to include some virgin material.

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I'm gonna be honest, it's really ugly and expensive. €1200, singlespeed and weighs 17 KG...

Also if you trade it in when it breaks, they only give you €50?

Weight, price, drivetrain all are terrible as others have said you would be much better off spending much less on a simple al bike.
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Recycled plastic concentrates phthalates and other toxins. The best place for plastic is modern landfill.
That looks like HDPE, which normally requires no plasticisers. Better learn some chemistry before spouting hysterical nonsense.

Plasticised PVC, which is where phthalates are used, is not suitable for structural applications like this.

It's a terrible bicycle. If it was extremely affordable because it's mostly recycled plastic acquired for cheap, then it would make sense as a product but the 1200 EUR price tag is absolutely demented.
I don’t get this. Marketing this as an urban bike makes no sense. It’s heavy, looks like it’ll be awful to maintain because so much is custom, and it’s relatively expensive. I rode fixed gears for years because they’re light, easy to carry up stairs, and can take being knocked about or banged up by other cyclists locking their bikes up next to one.

Even something of equal weight like the legendary Surly Long-Haul Trucker is going to last longer and be more practical in every possible application. Maybe if you live somewhere costal and salt will corrode the steel or something it makes sense? I have a hard time believing this would fair better though.

I would think this is for rental fleets or bike share. The weight and design would seem to make sense for that. Though the single speed seems like and odd choice for that.
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Added to toptext. Thanks!