Bamboo Single Speed: Pre-Iron Age Bike
By Rocky Thompson on September 28th, 2006
Calfee Design’s Bamboo Bike is made with heat treated bamboo tubes and lugs. They use a young bamboo fiber to form the lugs so the frame’s entirely wooden. In this picture the bike has Boss-Hog-style bullhorn handlebars and wooden rims, too. Now you have to worry about flat tires and your bike catching fire. Calfee says their Bamboo Bike is resistant to vibrations on long rides, and they say it’s okay for riders of any size.
Gilligan!
Well that is dope. Please keep posting the bike porn
what, no wicker seat?
I want real bullhorns too!
Man, that is a sweet bike! I want one now!
it’s the renewable resource bike that frugal enviro types can’t afford. perfect.
Those are the coolest handle bars ever
This bike gives me wood.
I hate to say it but the Right Wing, not frugal enviro types (i.e. crusty hippies, will fund environmental consciousness’ entrée into the 21st century.
[...] If they can bond bamboo they should do a pretty good job with carbon, too. Calfee Designs combination stem/handlebar is more than just another pretty bike part. Without a stem clamp you don’t have to worry so much about your handlebar shearing off while rounding a corner in the middle of the peloton. Plus it weighs less than a pack of smokes in your jersey pocket and cuts down on road vibrations a bit. By Rocky Thompson [...]
[...] A nice handlebar option for your wooden bike instead of those bullhorns. If you put them on your mountain bike, it might would be a good idea to pickup some blaze orange lycra during hunting season. [...]