He’s built 91 bamboo bicycles, enough for their reputation to spread across the country. And, perhaps as important, enough for Calfee to have faith in his unusual contraptions.

Bamboo bee hopes to make a mass-produced bamboo bike feasible 2 / 3 The Sunny model weighs 9.5 kg (21 pounds), while the basic Revolution iteration comes in at 10.5 kg (23 pounds) ...

The Bamboo Bike Project, which began at Columbia University's Earth Institute, got its start back in 2008. That was when Marty Odlin, a product design and development engineer at K2 Sports teamed ...

Weekend courses at Bamboo Bicycle Club cost £420.00 and include all the materials and tools you need to complete a frame. For more information visit: bamboobicycleclub.org.

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The e-cargo bike is among the greenest vehicles out there, and My Boo makes it even greener with a bamboo and flax-composite frame. The Kumasi EP6 is a capable hauling machine for shuttling tools ...

Bicycle designer Craig Calfee likes to talk about the time a film crew tried to stress-test one of his bamboo bike frames. Three men—each weighing about 200 pounds—piled onto one of the two ...

The Bamboo Bicycle Club started as a bike-building workshop in London, and now creates mail-order kits so you can build a bamboo bike frame at home.

Sure, bamboo is sustainable, but it also offers a superior ride, according to the company. The material provides natural suspension, says engineer James Marr, co-founder of the Bamboo Bicycle Club.

A single bamboo bicycle, from start to finish, takes four to five days to put together. These handmade bikes are also pricier than the average alloy bike and average around $1800 to $2000 USD per ...

In Zambia, bamboo bicycles are increasing employment and easing transportation costs. It's all part of a project founded by two Californians who wanted to create cheap and affordable bikes for the ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ” Funny where an idea will take you. Ten years ago, Luna the dog ” part pit bull and part Labrador retriever ” was gnawing on a piece of bamboo growing behind Craig Calfee’s bicycle ...