Ha! We already have disposable bikes. They’re all those (cheap or nice) that people buy with good intentions, ride once or twice, and then park in a garage or basement (or worse, outside) to rot. It just kills me to see that. I once traded a tree for a great old Schwinn mountain bike that I found rotting away in my (then) girlfriend’s landlord’s shed. They didn’t even know it was there. Planted the tree, fixed the bike up, and win-win-win.
Ha! We already have disposable bikes. They’re all those (cheap or nice) that people buy with good intentions, ride once or twice, and then park in a garage or basement (or worse, outside) to rot. It just kills me to see that. I once traded a tree for a great old Schwinn mountain bike that I found rotting away in my (then) girlfriend’s landlord’s shed. They didn’t even know it was there. Planted the tree, fixed the bike up, and win-win-win.
So many chainstore bike shops here have a covert ‘replace not repair’ policy, for so called productivity reasons. Time is money, apparently.