Those composite tubes were in turn joined to one another using a mix of epoxy and flax fiber, serving the same purpose as lugs. The Aero Bamboo Bike's frame weighs 1.3 kg (2.9 lb), and is equipped ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — Natural materials like bamboo, wool and flax are making a comeback in the high-tech world of modern bicycles. The Belgian framemaker Museeuw is weaving ancient flax fiber with ...

Berlin's Ozon Cyclery is a fantastic project by an industrial designer, an orthopedics technician and a medical device technician in berlin, making custom-made bikes from renewable bamboo.

Bamboo bikes Guy Degen 04/30/2013 April 30, 2013. Bamboo is known for its durability and high strength-to-weight ratio in construction, housing and furniture. A Berlin-based company is now using ...

The low-cost bike of the future might not come from Walmart, but your own living room. A group of London-based designers is pioneering a new system that uses a small 3-D printer to make strong ...

But the new Hummingbird Flax folding e-bike is even lighter than those. At just 22 lb. (10 kg), this plant-based e-bike isn’t just friendly to your back – it’s apparently vegan-friendly as well.

Hummingbird is revolutionizing the e-bike world with its new Flax e-bike, whose defining feature is its frame constructed out of flax fiber.

Hummingbird bicycles are made in the United Kingdom and the Flax model is not the manufacturer's first product. In fact, the company introduced the world to the lightest folding bike ever back in ...

A typical hemp fiber bundle has a diameter of 70 to 80 microns. A bamboo fiber bundle can be up to 180 microns in diameter, or larger. These structural differences, in turn, determine mechanical ...

The price of sustainability — The specs are a little disappointing especially when you consider that Hummingbird’s flax folding bike costs £4,995, or about $6,000. For that amount, you could ...