With human impact on the environment becoming an increasingly urgent concern, it seems only right to question major manufacturers on their credentials.
Though it can be recycled, metal is a major consideration when it comes to cycling’s impact on wastage figures. It’s often stated that one of the benefits of higher end components is that they ‘last longer’. We’ll be clamping down on this assertion, because, well, even Shimano tells us it’s not true: higher end components aren’t built with long life as the primary driver, rather, performance.
“Shimano components use the best balance of materials and specification choices (including weight, treatments, coatings, finishes, technologies and manufacturing processes) to achieve specific performances. Our products for multi-use categories (eg our Tiagra, Sora, Claris and Tourney road groupsets) are designed as more…