Made a bamboo bicycle frame the other weekend.

http://punkrockbikeclub.com/2014/03/deepwood/

I reckon it does

Cool. I wonder how variable the riding characteristics are from frame to frame due to the natural variations in the bamboo. Looks to be similar principles to a plastic (carbon) bike with the resin and then the bamboo as the tensile strength element rather than the carbon fibres.
How much does it weigh?

Easily qualifies, nice one .

It weighs...erm, a fair bit.

Will weigh it at some point. I picked some quite big bits of bamboo which I hope mean it will be stronger.

So I put the headset cups in and weighed it.

3.5kg!!

Hopefully as single speed the full bike won't be stupidly heavy.

ctznsmith wrote:So I put the headset cups in and weighed it.

3.5kg!!

Hopefully as single speed the full bike won't be stupidly heavy.

I have a new found respect for these bamboo bike riders

Lettuce snow what the rides like, I'd be interested in how it performs.

EDIT: Cor, those calfeedesign bamboo frames look neat. Suspect it would take me more than 40 hours to design and build on of them...

Zippy wrote:I have a new found respect for these bamboo bike riders

Lettuce snow what the rides like, I'd be interested in how it performs.

Good smartphone autocorrect there