What do you think?
Is Spinning Green, environmentally friendly or a caricature
of bicycling around the countryside with the wind in your hair? Spinners can get in their cars, drive to a
leisure centre for a class , where they hear music and see flashing lights then
drive home –not the most environmentally friendly activity you may think? But compare and contrast them with cyclists
on the open road: causing hold ups in traffic and throwing their used water
bottle into the hedges. This must damage
the natural habitat of the hedgerow and be a hazard to livestock. What is more, are these water bottles so
cheap that they cannot be made from biodegradable plastic can they?
Let us go a little further what about the Lycra worn by so
many who pedal the lanes on expensive state of the art cycles. Lycra or Spandex or Elastane is a stretchy
and allegedly forgiving fabric first developed in 1958 as an alternative to
rubber in corsets. Now it is used in
figure hugging gear for many cyclists, quite a renaissance. But is it environmentally friendly? Can you call a polyurethane synthetic fibre
green? It might be a little closer to
the green tag if it contains some wool or cotton but what is the carbon foot
print of such stuff, dare we even contemplate it?
Spinners of course can wear Lycra, and some do but is it
necessary when Spinning takes place well away from mud and exhaust fumes? Nest
time we’ll tackle the water bottle problem.
Most of my spinning colleagues don’t throw them at the wall, why should
the cyclists throw them into fields?
