In this month’s Performance Bicycles catalog there’s a bicycle jersey made of petroleum products with an overweight character symbolizing a non-recyclable petroleum product that’s a key component to internal combustion vehicles, responsible for most of the greenhouse gas emissions in our region. But he’s touching a plant, so I guess that makes it green. I’m sure the type of person that bicycles in Seattle will pay $85 for that.
Michelin also makes kick ass bike tires. All clinchers (no tubulars) and some of the best adhesion and lowest rolling resistance going all in a lighter total package (with Michelin latex tubes) than tubulars.
I know they make heavy duty tires (buses) and I suspect they make tires for monorails. Michelin developed the “rubber band” wheels used on the Paris Metro which is extremely quiet. It probably would have been more widely adopted if they hadn’t had reliability issues when the system was first put on the market.
I wouldn’t buy a Garneau jersey though, their quality sucks.