Sunday, May 10, 2015

I want to build a bamboo bike


This blog grew out of the desire to build yet another bike (I built two single speed bikes out of old ten speed frames found by a friend over the past two years).   While pouring through bike porn to determine some of the components I wanted for these bikes, I stumbled onto some bamboo bikes built by Calfee Designs.  At that point I knew I needed to build my own.  






It turns out that the strength-to-weight ratio of bamboo is quite good.  It also provides some of the dampening characteristics of carbon fiber frame.

Check out the bike testing video here: https://vimeo.com/6930129   

Two years later I am now starting.  This blog is my own personal journal for the build.  I don’t see it stopping at just this one.

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