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 shop outside Santa ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — With his gloved hands wrapping epoxy-soaked carbon-fiber ribbon around the chainstays of his bamboo bike frame, Dustin Sysko is relishing each ...

From flooring, to clothing, to jewelry, bamboo is being used in the manufacture of a large number of products. The speed at which it grows, the increasing consumer interest in environmentally friendly ...

Following a solo expedition around Asia on a self-built bamboo bicycle, Sunny Chuah was inspired to create a range of bamboo bikes suitable for mass-production. Thus the company Bamboo bee was born, ...

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 ...

Bicycles built with bamboo frames are inexpensive to make, strong, and durable. Here's how they're made, and how a team of engineers and bike enthusiasts hopes to make bamboo bike building a thriving, ...

Back when we visited the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in 2015, Lance Rake showed us an e-bike he made from a blend of woven bamboo, carbon fiber and balsa wood. At this year's show, he was ...

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-wheelers ...

Bamboo bikes are, as we recently pointed out, growing in popularity thanks to bamboo’s status as the fastest growing (and hence most renewable) plant. The newest bamboo bike manufacturer to enter the ...

Valid Cycles specializes in handcrafted bamboo bicycle frames. To be bike-ready, the bamboo must be cooked in an oven, stripped, and sealed. But after that, the founders of Valid Cycles say the bikes ...

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