Originally Posted by
RubeRad
If part of the idea is to enable 3rd worlders to build their own bikes cheap, I'd like to see a hardware-only kit for sale for like $30 (BB shell, dropouts, etc), let people harvest and dry their own local bamboo.
Plus a coaster-brake wheelset (with tires and tubes), crank, pedals, chain, fork and stem, maybe bars could be bamboo, and that would be minimum amount for a complete bike