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Bamboo Bicycle Club Live Challenge – another great initiative!
The chaps at the Bamboo Bicycle Club in London are demonstrating the power of 3D Printing and bamboo during a Future Bike Live challenge at the Design Museum. Check it out at Kickstarter:
Posted in 3d printing, bamboo, events, Frame building, frame building kit, frame design
Tagged 3d printing, bamboo, kickstarter
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Calfee Bamboo Bike Kit on Kickstarter
How cool is this? There’s some great simple innovations in the frame building kit here. I hope it gets funded!
Posted in bamboo, Frame building, frame building kit, jig building, parts
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Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative
Some great bikes being made in Ghana! Quite wonderful to see how the world is adapting to renewable resources and social enterprises. Good stuff. Ghana's Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes Meet the Ghanaian entrepreneur who's building bikes out of bamboo. Posted by … Continue reading
The Samurai has passed the frame test!
Today my 4th frame, the recently finished The Samurai, underwent my quality assurance testing that I do on all frames. The video below details the test and shows that the frame is strong and passes the Australian Standards for Frame … Continue reading
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3D Printed Bamboo Bike?
So I’ve been bunkering down in the Melbourne winter in front of 3D CAD programs designing various parts for the next bamboo bike. My aim is to reduce the amount of manual labour in the manufacture of the bikes and … Continue reading
Posted in accessories, bamboo, carbon fibre, frame design, parts, Uncategorized
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Daisy’s back from Portland!
Ok not really, but the kind chaps at the Bicycle Peddler liked Daisy so much they thought she’d look good with some more bamboo on her! So they supplied these beautifully crafted accessories from Portland Design Works so she could look … Continue reading