Given they are made of parts shipped around the world several times, and trucked across the continent,
the carbon debt owed just to put one on the Bike store floor is large..

and the engineering keeps making the new/latest Bling at the expense of the good enough..

TdeF has a huge carbon footprint , team cars buses trucks Motorcycles .. the Press coverage is all Motorized,
and all those Fans driving across Europe to park by a particular roadside in July .