BMX - Do BMX bikes pose a threat to the environment

:giver:Hiya guys

Ihave an assement and one of the questions is does your chosen topic have any environmental consequences. I'm haveing trouble with this one and could use some help.

sure they do, but it's less than flying to Vegas for the weekend.

they're made of steel or aluminum, so you have to mine that and refine it and machine it into frames and rims. they have rubber on the wheels and grips and maybe the seat, so that needs rubber plantations which normally mean some jungle somewhere has been cut down to grow the rubber trees, and the rubber has to be baked to make it hard, so that's gonna take energy too. all the little bits are made in different places and transported to the one factory to get assembled, and then it gets shipped to a store where you buy it, and the store has to be built on land that could otherwise have been let alone.

almost everything that people do has environmental consequences. but the question is, are the consequences of your sport better or worse than the alternatives? it's definitely less damaging than car racing or shooting deer or setting brushfires, but more damaging than lying around getting a suntan or playing with fallen leaves or planting new forest on abandoned industrial land...

how's that?

No I can't think of anyway they possibly could.

Chrome plating is terrible for the environment.

http://www.finishing.com/50/52.shtml

My BMX bike doesn't recycle and it clubs baby seals.
So it may pose a threat to the environment.
-Bill

I do back alley abortions with my cranks...

I cut off a toptube and used it as a blowdart gun to shoot small animals. Not really. But obviously everything is going to pose some kind of threat from the manufacturing of the materials. But to ride a bike, no, there's no waste materials or carbon dioxide spewing from a tailpipe.

I cut off a toptube and used it as a blowdart gun to shoot small animals. Not really. But obviously everything is going to pose some kind of threat from the manufacturing of the materials. But to ride a bike, no, there's no waste materials or carbon dioxide spewing from a tailpipe.
Although, you exhale more C02 riding a bike than you do just sitting on a couch.

Thanks urodacus so far u have the best point but anywa keep them coming in.

urodacus has mentioned the manufacturing and distribution angles. also think about maintenance (you need tools to work on it, and where does all that grease come from?), use (those roads/parks/dirt jumps you ride on didn't come outta nowhere), and disposal (when the bike's service life ends, where does it go? what happens to the grungy old grease when you overhaul the bearings?).

depending how you loosely or narrowly you define "threat", there's a lot of scope for potential research here. have fun :)

I do back alley abortions with my cranks...

Peg bonks!

other than the mining/refining process, they're not altogether too bad for the environment. it beats suckin down gas in a car when its at $4 a gallon. plus its excercise. and whenever my parts are done for, i always recycle whatever ones i can. those that i cant, i try and find a use for them somewhere else, like on my little brothers bike, or on the snow bike that im "building".