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Wooden bikes
Apologies if this has already been posted, I searched to see if it had and had zero hits. There are some real nice looking styles here, but...wood??
https://www.renovobikes.com/
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https://www.renovobikes.com/
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A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
https://organicbikes.wordpress.com/20...in-to-vermont/
A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
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They do exist.
https://organicbikes.wordpress.com/20...in-to-vermont/
A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
https://organicbikes.wordpress.com/20...in-to-vermont/
A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
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OP, do a search in the Framebuilding section for bamboo and you'll find a half a dozen or so of us that have made frames.
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I have test rode an R3. 56CM, Ultegra 10 speed, and lower end wheels, 19Lbs. Stiff frame like a CAAD, and yet a soft ride like a carbon bike without the plastic noise/feel.
Frame and Alpha Q fork is about the same as a Specialized Tarmac, Super Six Himod, or Madone frame.
Trying to convince the CFO I really need one.
Frame and Alpha Q fork is about the same as a Specialized Tarmac, Super Six Himod, or Madone frame.
Trying to convince the CFO I really need one.
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Apologies if this has already been posted, I searched to see if it had and had zero hits. There are some real nice looking styles here, but...wood??
https://www.renovobikes.com/
Thoughts?
https://www.renovobikes.com/
Thoughts?
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Apologies if this has already been posted, I searched to see if it had and had zero hits. There are some real nice looking styles here, but...wood??
https://www.renovobikes.com/
Thoughts?
https://www.renovobikes.com/
Thoughts?
I don't know, my biggest problem with a bike like that kind of would be that it's too pretty to use in every-day life in the city.
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Wood is a very versatile material. I know that the bamboo bikes suffer from similar problems like CF, you crash and it is all over.
I have seen a couple of prototype bikes built up using plywood type lamination, interesting design exercise.
There was a production bike built a few years ago from injection molded plastic a few examples of that bike are still around today.
Aaron
I have seen a couple of prototype bikes built up using plywood type lamination, interesting design exercise.
There was a production bike built a few years ago from injection molded plastic a few examples of that bike are still around today.
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I spotted these for the first time a little over a week ago, and they simply floored me. I'd been planning on a 'dream bike' purchase by next summer, and some research on the company and the bikes, followed up by a phone conversation with them convinced me. They've got my deposit for a new R3. Sometime today, I'll be emailing them my basic fitting measurements, after which we'll start talking wood/finish choice, component selection, etc. It's going to bust my 'buy budget' by a fair amount, but that's part of the 'dream'... right?
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A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
https://organicbikes.wordpress.com/20...in-to-vermont/
A number of different manufacturers are using bamboo to make bikes and many of them are truly beautiful. From what I've read though, they're quite expensive and performance-wise, not really a match for similarly priced conventionally made bikes.
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Sweet pix! I'll take a Badash 29er......
Calfee has been making bamboo road frames for years now, and they come with a 10-year warranty, pretty comprehensive, as I recall..........
Calfee has been making bamboo road frames for years now, and they come with a 10-year warranty, pretty comprehensive, as I recall..........
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R3 frame cost for orders placed now (off-season) is $2,450 (normally $2,950). I'm not sure what the final 'built' price will be, but I suspect another $2,000 or so. Ah, well... life is short.
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I talked to them at the SFO Bike Expo, and they said it would be close to $5k for a dark walnut/doug fir accent frame, Alpha Q fork, Ultegra or Rival components, FSA KWing bars, and Ksyrium Equip wheels.
I had hoped to buy one in the spring, but looks like it will have to wait one more year.
I had hoped to buy one in the spring, but looks like it will have to wait one more year.