How to Build a Bamboo Bicycle

Step 8 Sweet pictures to further inspire you...

I took these of a Calfee bike parked outside the library - so awesome!

Comments

[urwatuis]

This is an awsome project! Before I found this one I was scanning other bike projects and saw Instrucables for building a recumbent bike and bike trailers and my first thought after seeing the bamboo bike is why didn't anyone build a bamboo recumbent bike?!?!?! with a trailer??? Seems like such a natural progression, no? Maybe I'll give that a try when warmer weather rolls in. BTW I like the idea of using hemp to bind everything together. Great idea!

[cheshirecat1975]

Thanks so much for such a useful instructable! I used your advice to make a bike that's still a work in progress, but coming along nicely, chronicled, here: http://jamesjessup.com/blog/category/bamboobikeblog/

Thanks again for the very helpful tips!

[royaydel]

on the Calfee they are titanium. the BB shell is probably steel unless they matched it with Ti for the dropouts. but that frame is a carbon fiber - bamboo mix. I have ridden several and it makes for a unique ride that can't really be described. not in a negative way, just a "what's that noise? I'm not used to that strange sound and feel" kind of way

[dderekk]

how much did this bike cost you and how many ours of work did it take ?

[12bowenand]

any idea what the bottom bracket shell and all of the joints on this bike are made of ?