• forpeterssake@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, there’s a big difference between pro cycling and biking to get around. The pro peloton isn’t remotely sustainable—lots of international travel, transfers of team cars, team buses, helicopters, signal relay planes, etc. I suppose no pro sport is green. But biking for transport is one of the most efficient and sustainable.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, there’s a big difference between pro cycling and biking to get around.

      Of course, but there’s also a big difference between a cycling race and a car race.

      Neither are vital transportation, but one is a helluva lot more polluting for entertainment than the other.

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      1 year ago

      I suppose no pro sport is green.

      SailGP claims to be trying, although I have… questions… about how they get both their boats and personnel from event location to event location, as well as the use of combustion-powered support boats during races. (Frankly, I won’t really believe they’re green until they’ve built a sailing cargo ship to schlep those racing catamarans around.)

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      1 year ago

      Of course. All in saying is that it makes us talk about how cycling is a good alternative to motor transport. Doing the pro peloton to work isn’t an option.