Today, we build and test airless mountain bike tires on a real trail. Such tires appear often as vaporware, and I wanted to make a version as close to that a...
  • JillyB@beehaw.org
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    26 days ago

    If it doesn’t last as long, wouldn’t it produce a higher volume of plastic pollution. Even if it does break down quicker, it might increase your impact. Also, I think your bike tire wear is truly an insignificant contributor to pollution. Your effort would be much better spent advocating for bike lanes, giving an old bike to a friend so they can drive less, etc. If you ride instead of Uber 1 time, you’re probably offsetting a month of bike tire wear.

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
      1·
      25 days ago

      Not to mention using a bike instead of a car which is probably at least an order of magnitude reduction in solid pollution, if not more.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    26 days ago

    Really cool! One thing I sometimes concern my self about is the minimal (comparatively) pollution my bicycle tires make. I would LOVE to print out this design on bio-degradable filament. It very likely wouldn’t last as long, but that’s fine if I’m even further reducing my impact. *Also I almost exclusively ride in urban environments.

    Note: most biodegradable filaments are only degradable in industrial-level compost facilities; however, they do break down a lot quicker than conventional plastics in normal conditions.

    **Can anyone find the .stl? :O

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      10·
      26 days ago

      Biodegradable filaments are usually also rigid. So instead you could just take off your tire and ride on the rim to get similar results.