I’m not sure why we are going back and forth on this because it seems incredibly obvious that this would have to be accounted for to make an accurate comparison.

The frame of reference here, to me at least, isn’t the utopia where we get to squabble about the ecological merits of e-bike vs. acoustic bike, it’s where one car getting shipped anywhere from anywhere eats up the logistical CO2-equivalent of about 50 bikes (55 for e-bikes).