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aluminium is indeed recyclable, and when all or even most alu bikes are recycled you could just about call it a green material. for the time being, it's a material whose production generates more carbon emissions weight for weight than it does aluminium.
anyone got CO emissions stats for flax...? :-P
or recycling stats for bikes in general? it can't be worth the hassle of disassembly....
Flax or no flax, who'd ride a carbon touring bike? I've known a carbon MTB with a dirty big hole worn in the chainstay after one wet day in muddy conditions. What are they thinking? Steel is where it's at for touring bikes, pure and simple.
Agreed, probably not very fixable, once you got off the beaten track. On the other hand maybe there are plenty of plenty of local composite factories out there that'd run you off a quick tube, but where are you going to get the flax?
Now a bike made from carrot cellulose…