This guy really rode this bike.

I'm amazed..... Scroll down and look at the page.

https://www.bmeres.com/bambooframe.htm

Cool, but 23.6 pounds isn't exactly light for the built-up bike. I'd be interested in knowing what just the frame weighs.

I think he said it was about four and a half pounds on the webpage.

I don't know what a frame weighs usually. I just thought it was an amazing idea.


EDIT: It says 4.1 pounds.

And it isn't unique. Other people are making them too. This one is offered with a ten year frame guarantee.




https://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm

No.

This has been going on since the beginning of bicyling. This model was built in 1895 -

https://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac....les/Bamboo.htm

Not bad. Not bad at all.

I saw a Calfee bamboo bike at NAHBS last year, although I don't know if it was the same frame.

I once read a post from someone who built one of these... he said the biggest problem he had was finding bamboo with the right properties. He went through a huge pile, selecting and discarding, before he had enough to make 1 bike.

LOL - I'll look at the bean canes in my garden with a new respect. Maybe I'll try and make a bamboo bike trailer for towing my baggage. I'm hoping to go on a tour. The hard part would be the junction of cane to metalwork. I could lash up a travois type structure with a couple of Merc front wheels wheels at the lower ends. They cost £18 each and tyres and tubes would make it £26 or £52 the pair. The bike seatpost would be around where the dog's neck is in this picture of an Indian dog type travois.

Well, maybe not fold, but possibly "take apart" in the Bike Friday spirit. Perhaps the closest we could get to an organic folder? ;-)

I saw a world war 2 paratrooper's folding bicycle a few days ago, & that looks like a candidate for a bamboo frame.

Bike frames have been made of wood in the past as well .Bamboo is a grass so the frame that guy made could be said to be made of grass.There are a few species of American bamboo that grow in the Appalachians.