Show us your ........ bamboo!

[Gav2000]

Here's a starter of what I'm sure will be many posting from all the bamboo bike owners out there.

This one is really comfortable and soaks up the vibrations from the road so much better than my carbon bike.

 

[fossyant]

Nice.... watch out for wood worm !!!!

Just like carbon melts, steel rusts, wood suffers wood worm !!

 

[brockers]

Totally bonkers but . What made you buy it?

It'll be 'Show us your....flax!' next. All owners of Museeuw bikes will be happy !

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Looks great and nicely put together.

Not sure about the gonzo saddle though.

 

[dellzeqq]

Nice.... watch out for wood worm !!!!

Just like carbon melts, steel rusts, wood suffers wood worm !!

it's not wood, it's grass

Looks lovely (although I have the same reservations about the saddle). What are the lugs made from? Do you know how the bamboo is fixed to the metal?

 

[Banjo]

I saw a flat bar bamboo bike on the Dragon Sportive. The lugs on that one looked a bit smaller and I think the guy said they were carbon fibre.

He had built it himself, not sure if he had made the lugs or bought them.

You dont see many if any flatbar bikes on a 200 km sportive , this guy was going well.

 

[jugglingphil]

looks great, I especially like the bottle cages!

 

[coffeejo]

Nice

 

[Gav2000]

The lugs are alloy and the bamboo seems to be glued / epoxyed into them. It seems pretty stiff but absorbs the vibrations from some quite rough road surfaces very well.

I bought the frame from an ebay seller in the US on a whim, it was for sale with a Buy It Now price or Make an Offer. I made an offer that seemed quite speculative and low and the buyer accepted and included 2 bottle cages as well. There was an article in Cycling Plus a few months ago about a bamboo bike that was reported to be really comfortable, it stuck in my mind so I thought I'd give it a try. The whole bike cost just less than £1,000 which doesn't seem too bad. The groupset is Campag Veloce and wheels, bars, stem and seatpost are all from Planet X.

The saddle is a style that's on all of my bikes. I had real problems getting a comfortable one and bought one of those after seeing Mark Beaumont on TV using one of the more expensive ones in the range on his round the world ride. It might look odd but it's really comfortable, finding a brown one for this bike was quite hard though.

Gav.

 

[Gareth]

Totally bonkers but . What made you buy it?

It'll be 'Show us your....flax!' next. All owners of Museeuw bikes will be happy !

My personal ss/fixie project bike frame currently in the workshop is being made from lamination layers of flax, hemp and nettle fibre composites sandwiched between layers of 1.5mm thick hardwood plywood.

 

[theclaud]

Very nice. I've got a bit of a thing about bamboo bikes. Calfee use hemp fibre for the lugs (if you can call it a lug when it's more of a wrap), apparently, after they had some problems with their original carbon fibre ones...

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Very nice. I've got a bit of a thing about bamboo bikes. Calfee use hemp fibre for the lugs (if you can call it a lug when it's more of a wrap), apparently, after they had some problems with their original carbon fibre ones...

You would have all the yoofs trying to smoke your bike

 

[Gav2000]

Very nice. I've got a bit of a thing about bamboo bikes. Calfee use hemp fibre for the lugs (if you can call it a lug when it's more of a wrap), apparently, after they had some problems with their original carbon fibre ones...

It's certainly more completely bamboo than my bike but they need to make those lugs neater, it looks like its joined together with parcel tape.

Gav.

 

[Red Light]

it's not wood, it's grass

Need to steer clear of any Fiat Pandas though

 

[dellzeqq]

Bamboo is astonishing stuff. We had it in the Dellzeqq bathroom before we moved. Shrugged off water and didn't move a millimetre.

I wonder if anybody's making hickory rims?