Bamboo is the new titanium
 

Yikes!


http://i13.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/cc/a0/55a7_1.JPG

wow.

If nothing else, the frame *is* pretty.

I saw a show about the guy who makes these (Calfee) on the science channel. He rigged up a rear rack out of bamboo to go with the bamboo bike. One guy sat on the rack, one guy on the seat and a third guy sat on the bars. The rear wheel ended up taco-ed, but the frame held up no problem. The BB, head tube, dropouts and seat tube were steel I believe.

i'd ride one.

not as nice as a calfee, i'd say.

I dream of having a Calfee Design bamboo bike someday:

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

I'm really interested to see where bamboo goes in the next 10 years where bikes are concerned. It'll never be mass production, but it certainly has potential. I mean ****, if they can build massive skyscrapers using a thousand feet of bamboo scaffolding, I'm sure they can build a badass bike frame out of it too.

Those Calfees are actually pretty gorgeous.

does it say how much it weighs?

sanctified ****, that's the most beautiful thing since the smartarse responses to the stoplight poll. it's so hippy, i just want to cry.

and in case you're not into that classic randonneur style, there's nothing to stop some classic hipster upgrades...

http://www.calfeedesign.com/images/KRIMBamboo.JPG

i'd ride the **** out of a bamboo bike. but not that one (the op listed) no wonder it flexes, look at the size of the "tubing" compaired to that on the calfees. his main triangle is almost as thin as the seat stays and chainstays!

http://www.calfeedesign.com/images/S...ike650x493.jpg

from previous articles, they say bamboo weighs a bit more than a comparable AL bike.

When they genetically engineer butted bamboo, it'll be lighter.

a hahaha.. now those are some true ****ing bullhorns.

heck they have been making bikes out of bamboo out in asia for a while

I had the actual dream that I owned/rode the hell out of one. GREAT dream. Very lucid.

Steel is real but wicker is quicker.

hahhaha

Everything old is new again. Back to grass and wood.

Bluegrass is the new punk.

They usually have a bamboo bike at River City here in PDX. I should test ride it for ****s and giggles.

I dont know what they are hoping to accomplish other than make something unique looking.

They have a whole mission to make bikes from sustainable materials found in the third world. They're expensive bikes now, but there are more egalitarian, 'green' motives behind them, other than looking unique, which they are. An college friend of mine recently got a DREAM job as a Calfee sales rep. So jealous.