Originally Posted by
Tightwad
Sorry, fella's but Bamboo bike still need steel for major components.
IMO the most sustainable bikes are made from mild steel tubing with
steel wheels and internal hub, or single speed, much like the English
3 speed of the recent past. Those bikes were almost unbreakable.
You can fit about 200 metal bikes in a standard shipping container. If you make the frames locally out of bamboo, then that same container can hold the components that
must be metal for about
2000 bikes.
Sounds good to me.