Grow Your Own Bamboo Bike
The bamboo bike magician Craig Calfee is experimenting with a new design idea that would improve the strength of his bikes and make them even better suited to crunchy white people. He’s growing bamboo through forms that bend it into shapes he can use for couplings and joints.
I like Calfee’s vision, but I don’t like that someone could saw through my bike to unlock it and steal my wheels.
via Wired
By Rocky Thompson- rockythompson
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September 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
here is another company making cool bikes out of bamboo: http://solcycles.com/
September 29th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
they can saw through carbon fiber easier then bamboo…
September 30th, 2008 at 1:47 am
yeap carbon fiber wouldn’t be too hard to saw through - you could even saw through aluminium or steel frames if you had the time/could be bothered
September 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
So much for my combination carbon fiber/bamboo bike lock idea!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Can they justify the really high price when they’re gonna be growing the bikes now? As far as material costs go, the bikes will be practically free.